President Trump appears to have gone off-script in his speech earlier this week at the UN General Assembly, ignoring the advice of senior aides not to deliver any personal attacks on North Korea’s leader, and warning it could irreparably escalate tensions.
Trump’s staff was given a draft of the speech and reviewed it the day before the speech. The parts where he called Kim Jong Un “Rocket Man” and claimed he was suicidal, along with the part threatening to “totally destroy North Korea” were not in that draft at all.
While this isn’t far afield from the threats Trump and his cabinet make nearly daily against North Korea, doing so at the UN General Assembly is seen as a major escalation, with advisors worrying it’s going to push North Korea into taking rash retaliatory action.
National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster appears to have been among those warning Trump against such comments during the General Assembly, and apparently had spent months trying to talk him out of any such move.
So much for the fake news story that Uber-General Kelly has established ‘order’ in the White House and discipline that cuts out the leaking from the previous junta.
Starting to worry that even Deep State aren’t in charge, although they’re doing well in Syria, stealing Assad’s oil. The UN charade was a useful distraction. Syria? Where?
Aides warned Trump? I guess that they could not find a rope to pee up. That would explain the facepalm by General John F Kelly USMC Ret.
So Trump’s off his Oxy’, three sheets to the wind. No matter, he’s irrelevant, even the NKs know that, so put it down to diaper rash, or some other pottie problem.
It won”t be long before somebody with more clout – like the Chinese or the Russians – are telling him he had better not attack North Korea at all.
More Trump – he’s doing exactly what he’s been doing all along. Belittling others and making sweeping threats he can’t back up. This is why his supporters like him, right? He “tells it like it is,” but that’s only from the viewpoint of a schoolyard bully.