June 13, 2018: Trump Works Art of the Deal "Magic" with North Korea!

 

6/13/18: The president returns home from his historic meeting with Kim Jong-un. As anyone could have predicted, he proclaims his trip a total success. You can pretty much close the voting for the Nobel Peace Prize. President Twitter Thumbs offers us this historic announcement at 4:56 a.m.: 

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“There is no longer a Nuclear Threat from North Korea.” 

President Trump

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Just landed - a long trip, but everybody can now feel much safer than the day I took office. There is no longer a Nuclear Threat from North Korea. Meeting with Kim Jong Un was an interesting and very positive experience. North Korea has great potential for the future!

 

Next, he blasts the free press for not crediting his success. Naturally, he does his blasting in a tweet: 

So funny to watch the Fake News, especially NBC and CNN. They are fighting hard to downplay the deal with North Korea. 500 days ago they would have “begged” for this deal – looked like war would break out. Our Country’s biggest enemy is the Fake News [emphasis added here and below] so easily promulgated by fools! 

 

Fawning propaganda from Fox News. 

As you could also guess, Fox News picks up the story and misses the salient point. Fox opens with exactly the kind of quality reporting we’ve come to expect. That is to say, fawning propaganda: 

Having apparently defanged the nuclear threat posed by North Korea, President Trump on Wednesday identified the biggest remaining threat to the Republic: The “fake news media.”

 

Trump, just back in Washington after his historic sitdown in Singapore with Kim Jong Un, blasted the press – and two TV news organizations in particular – for failing to grasp the enormity of the event. 

 

Yes, those poor dopes at CNN and NBC! They’re too blinded by bias to “grasp the enormity” of what Donald the Great has done! 

First, let’s say this: Kim Jong-un is a far bigger threat to this country than the “Fake News” folks. 

Unless Wolf Blitzer is threatening to nuke an American city, and I missed the story. 

Secondly, none of us – and not all of the talking heads on cable news combined – can know where the path President Trump and Kim Jong-un appear to be taking ends. It may end with total denuclearization. It may end in renewed threats and possibility of war. Even the president cannot be sure. He admitted as much. Kim has sent signals that he may be willing to move toward total denuclearization; but so far not one North Korean grenade has been surrendered, let alone a stockpile of nukes. Kim may give up his missile program in the future. Kim may stop adding to his stockpile. Kim may turn over the nuclear weapons he already has. Kim may allow inspectors into his country to verify all these steps. And Mr. Kim may renege. 

 

“I may be wrong…I don’t know that I’ll ever admit that.” 

“Honestly, I think he’s going to do these things,” Trump says during a press conference before returning home. “I may be wrong; I mean, I may stand before you in six months and say, ‘Hey, I was wrong,’” “I don’t know that I’ll ever admit that,” he laughs, “but I’ll find some kind of an excuse.” 

Fox News might not want to admit it; but CNN, NBC, The New York Time and even the Wapakoneta Daily News have a duty to question the wisdom of Trump saying Kim Jong-un “loves his people.” Kim heads up one of the most repressive regimes on earth. An estimated 18 million North Koreans suffer from malnutrition, although Kim clearly eats well. The number of political prisoners stands at 120,000. That number would be higher, but Kim’s jailors have no compunction when it comes to torturing, starving to death, or executing prisoners who represent the gravest threats to the regime. 

Fox can’t get even the simplest points right. When Trump brags because he got Otto Warmbier released from the gulag, whereas Obama “failed,” Fox News lets him brag. The president brags about bringing back three other prisoners, taken during Obama’s time in office, when Obama couldn’t. Fox doesn’t note that Kim, whose police brutalized Warmbier, released him only in time to return home and die. Fox can’t even call the president out on his lies. Of the three hostages released together recently, only one was taken while Obama was in office. 

The other two were taken with Trump in charge. 

Was it good that Trump brought those hostages and poor Warmbier home? Yes, of course. But Fox won’t note that four hostages held by North Korea were freed while Obama was in office. 

That would require viewers to think.

 

NBC journalists aren’t the “greatest enemy” of this country if they ask if Trump is willing to turn his back on our nation’s best values. If the president is going to talk about Kim in the glowing fashion he has, it’s worth asking if U.S. foreign policy will be fundamentally altered. “He’s got a great personality,” Trump says of Kim in one interview. “He’s a funny guy, he’s very smart, he’s a great negotiator. He loves his people, not that I’m surprised by that. I think that we have the start of an amazing deal.” 

You don’t need to look at Kim Jong-un twice to see a brutal dictator at work. Yet Trump looks twice and sees prime real estate. “They have great beaches,” he says of North Korea, during a press conference. “You see that whenever they’re exploding their cannons into the ocean. I said, ‘Boy, look at that view. Wouldn’t that make a great condo?’ You could have the best hotels in the world right there. Think of it from a real-estate perspective.” 

Yes, I’m sure those 18 million malnourished North Korean citizens and those 120,000 political prisoners do.

 

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IF FOX NEWS had any doubt about why journalists from rival networks were skeptical of Trump’s new fondness for Kim, they had only to consider a news report from last October. Once again, journalists outlined the horrific methods favored by the psychopath currently charming Trump. 

 

Executed with flamethrowers and anti-aircraft guns 

Here’s the way a real news outlet describes Kim’s regime:  

Whether it be his penchant for heavy drinking or the horrors he inflicts on the women he keeps as sex slaves, the strongman has long held his nation in fear as he rules over the Hermit Kingdom with unchecked powers. Kim, however, seems to save his most gruesome indulgences for the way he deals with people he considers enemies, traitors or subordinates….

 

Reporters then compiled a list of favorite methods for executing those who crossed him: 

Anti-aircraft Guns – While these weapons were designed to take down enemy fighter jets, they have become a favorite method of execution for Kim. In 2015, reports surfaced from South Korean intelligence that the dictator’s Defense Minister Hyong Yong Choi was pulverized to death by an anti-aircraft gun after the young despot ordered his execution for falling asleep during an event and not carrying out instructions.

 

Hee Yeon Lim, a 26-year-old defector, recently told western media that she was part of a crowd of 10,000 ordered to watch the execution by anti-aircraft guns of 11 musicians who allegedly made a pornographic video. 

 

“What I saw that day made me sick in my stomach. They were lashed to the end of anti-aircraft guns,” she said. “A gun was fired, the noise was deafening, absolutely terrifying. And the guns were fired one after the other.”

 

She added: “The musicians just disappeared each time the guns were fired into them. Their bodies were blown to bits, totally destroyed, blood and bits flying everywhere…and then, after that, military tanks moved in and they ran over the bits on the ground where the remains lay.”

 

Mortar Fire…In 2011, a vice minister of the army was sentenced to death for allegedly drinking and partying during the official mourning period after Kim Jong Il’s death. The younger Kim apparently ordered “no trace of him left behind, down to his hair” before the vice minister was placed on a spot that had been targeted for a mortar round and “obliterated”.

 

Flamethrower – Multiple news sources reported in 2014 that, as part of Kim’s purge of high-ranking officials, O Sang Hon, the deputy public security minister, was “executed by flamethrower.”

 

...Poisoning – Seemingly too subtle of a method for Kim, who obviously prefers over-the-top theatrics when it comes to killing, the North Korean strongman isn’t above treachery…especially when it comes to family.

 

…Kim Kyong Hui – his own aunt – was allegedly poisoned to death after he grew tired of her complaints [about his killing of her husband]. And to make sure that nobody else would bother him, Kim ordered the rest of his aunt’s family – around seven members – killed.

 

By the way, who compiled that horrific list of crimes? Who made it clear that Kim might be mad? Who made it clear he might not be someone who would ever live by his word? It was Fox News, pursuing the truth for once. It was not Fox News parroting praise for Orange Leader.