Feeling safer?
by digby
When asked, "how concerned and worried should Americans be about a thermonuclear war with North Korea?" this was the answer our president gave:
Look, you always have to be concerned. You don't know exactly who you're dealing with. I had a great, great meeting with the president of China. And that meeting tells me a lot. And you've seen a lot of things happen. They have a pretty good power ... not a great power perhaps ... but a pretty good power over North Korea. We're gonna see what happens. It's a very, very tricky situation. This should have been done by President Obama. It should have been done by previous presidents all the back to Clinton and everybody pushed it off.And you know if you look t Clinton , you read his book, he talked about his wonderful deal. He didn't make a good deal., He made a terrible deal. All he did essentially was say 'do whatever you want to do.' And now I'm out in a position where he actually has nuclear and we're going to have to do something about it.Hopefully he wants peace and we want peace and that's going to be the end determination but we're going to have to see what happens.
Sometimes he makes me miss Sarah Palin. Trump's word salad is just depressing. It's similarly stupid but without the flair. It's also extremely frightening since, you know, he's the president.
First of all, he knows nothing about Clinton's North Korea deal certainly doesn't care that the Republicans tried to sabotage it repeatedly. But be that as it may, he's speaking gibberish, blaming his predecessors for everything --- well, except for Bush who he weirdly leaves out of that equation despite Bush's own Korean crisis. The whole comment is just amazing.
In case you aren't scared enough by that, Rachel Maddow has some news for you.
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