Trump Flirts with Nuclear War, Uses Twitter to Instruct Secretary of State on ‘Wasteful’ Negotiations

‘We’ll do What has to be Done’

The President of the United States has (once again) dangerously returned his focus on Twitter to North Korea and Kim Jong Un, amidst a full day of golfing events and again from his golf club.

“I told Rex Tillerson, our wonderful Secretary of State,” the president began, “that he is wasting his time trying to negotiate with Little Rocket Man…”

“…Save your energy Rex, we’ll do what has to be done!”

Yesterday, the New York Times reported that the United States was in direct communication with North Korea, per the Secretary of State:

BEIJING — The Trump administration acknowledged on Saturday for the first time that it was in direct communication with the government of North Korea over its missile and nuclear tests, seeking a possible way forward beyond the escalating threats of a military confrontation from both sides.

“We are probing, so stay tuned,” Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson said, when pressed about how he might begin a conversation with Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader, that could avert what many government officials fear is a significant chance of open conflict between the two countries.

“We ask, ‘Would you like to talk?’ We have lines of communications to Pyongyang — we’re not in a dark situation, a blackout,” he added. “We have a couple, three channels open to Pyongyang,” a reference to North Korea’s capital.

As NCRM has reported,  Trump went ballistic in August when he threatened North Korea with “fire and fury like the world has never seen,” in response to a news report that Pyongyang had successfully miniaturized a nuclear warhead to fit in an Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile, or ICBM. 

Since then, the president threatened to “totally destroy” North Korea. He further insisted that they “won’t be around much longer” after North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho said that Trump was “on a suicide mission” that is making “our rocket’s visit to the entire U.S. mainland all the more.”

It’s possible that Trump is simply trying to change the narrative from the federal government’s lackluster response to Puerto Rico and his subsequent attacks on San Juan’s heroic mayor and the Americans suffering there.

That may be the case, but it’s a dangerous tactic—one that puts all Americans at risk.

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