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DONALD TRUMP TOLD cheering supporters at a rally last night that his meeting with Kim Jong Un would bring peace “for the whole world”.
The US President used one of his signature rallies in northern Indiana to attack political rivals and the media as well as talk up his performance since assuming office.
It was confirmed yesterday that Trump would be meeting North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore, a historic first face-to-face meeting between leaders of the two nations.
The meeting comes following a period of sabre-rattling between the two leaders that has developed into apparent better relations between both, as well as South Korea.
Yesterday, Trump welcomed home three American citizens who had been detained in North Korea that were freed by the Pyongyang regime.
In his speech last night, Trump hailed this concession by North Korea and claimed next month’s meeting would have positive repercussions globally.
“On 12 June, I’ll be meeting with Kim Jong Un, to pursue a future of peace and security for the world. For the whole world,” Trump said.
And the relationship is good. And do you remember all of them in the fake news saying ‘he’s going to get us into a nuclear war, he’s going to get us into a nuclear war’? And you know what gets you into nuclear wars, and you know what gets you into other wars? Weakness, weakness.
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In his speech, Trump also embraced his role as party leader and issued a stern warning that Democrats would disrupt the economic progress of his administration, imploring Republicans to mobilise during the 2018 midterm elections.
Trump painted a rosy picture of his presidency, pointing to low unemployment, “booming” job growth and optimism under his watch.
Two days after Indiana wrapped up a divisive Republican Senate primary, the president praised a lengthy ticket of House and Senate candidates by name and predicted Democrats would dismantle his agenda if they regained control of Congress.
“You have to work every day between now and November to elect more Republicans so that we can continue to make America great again,” Trump said, referencing his 2016 campaign slogan.
Basking in the cheers of thousands of supporters wearing his red campaign hats, Trump hailed his decision to impose tariffs on steel and aluminum imports and his tough stance on trade deals, appealing to the region’s manufacturing base.
He reissued his campaign pledge to build a border wall with Mexico, telling the crowd the work had started despite opposition from Democrats.
And he celebrated the return of three Americans who had been held captive in North Korea, saying: “We welcomed them back home the proper way.”
The Indiana rally was Trump’s fourth political-style event in the past two weeks. Trump skipped the White House Correspondents’ Dinner late last month to rally supporters in Macomb County, Michigan.
He spoke last week to the National Rifle Association in Dallas. And last Saturday, Trump was in Ohio, long the key electoral piece for any GOP presidential hopeful.
As he travels the country, Trump will face the question of whether his appeal is transferable to down-ballot candidates, much in the way that Obama struggled to rally core Democrats when he wasn’t running himself.
Obama suffered broad losses in Congress and in statehouses during the 2010 and 2014 midterm elections, an outcome Trump hopes to avoid.
- With reporting by Associated Press
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@A Piece of Chalk: Tomy Tronic Trump
@Donald Trump: Yikes!
@A Piece of Chalk: Yikes? How many accounts do you need on here Francis?
@A Piece of Chalk: yep , perfect for appealing to his base , worryingly history will show that if he gets an agreement on Korea and the photo op with rocketman – he will probably get the Noble Peace Prize and increase approval ratings and then get a second term – thats the game he is playing here and much to most of the worlds annoyance he might succeed in the increasingly annoying US elections -again- christ.
It will bring peace to the world. Now watch me flatten Iran
@Seosamh Ohuaine: You know as well as anyone that’s not going to happen. Did you say the same when Obama sent troops to the Middle East? All trump had done so far is take troops back out of Syria and hold record peace deals with North Korea. Why should he of signed off on that deal with Iran if it was a bad deal for his country? Because it annoyed a few idiots like you looking for any excuse to give out about him? Stick to loving the most ineffective and useless piece of pr garbage that is Obama.
@Eric Djemba-Djemba: It’s hard to argue sensibly with anyone who believes that someone with a different opinion to yourself is an idiot.
@DrRexButts: Without Saudia Arabia and Israel on board it never really was a deal.
@Eric Djemba-Djemba: Eric Fake Account……
@Eric Djemba-Djemba: Donald Trump is nothing but a stooge and will do as he is told. In the same way Obama did. I don’t support Americas foreign policies at all. Trump took his troops out of Syria because they got their asses handed to them and lost the war they started. A failed invasion. Now you go back to your trailer park and when you figure out how to tie your own shoe laces come back with intelligent comments. Good chap
Says the man(9 year old) throwing rocks at the wasps nest that is the middle east.
@Raymond Dennehy: Very true, but more like hornets than wasps. If you’ve ever had experience of hornets you’ll get my point. They make it personal.
True that peace is on its way in North Korea. But as usual, it has nothing to do with this imbecile. It’s was President Moon’s, of South Korea, election pledge to bring peace to the 2 nations and he has done a damn good job of it.
@DrRexButts: there will be no removal of US troops until the two Korea’s are unified. Otherwise what is to deter Kim from returning to bad boy form again?
@Squarepeg01: there will be no removal of US troops at all. Once you let the rogue state in, there’s no getting rid of them. Just ask Cuba.
@Cormac Ó Braonáin: the military strength of that ‘rogue state’s is the main reason you can enjoy your morning latte.
@Squarepeg01: is it? How’d you work that one out?
@Cormac Ó Braonáin: open your eyes. All of us (especially in the West) live under the Pax Americana. Everything from international trade to global stability, such as it is, is underwritten by American might. It’s also why European countries can spend far less on defence that they would otherwise need to. Those regions where US influence is least are a mess.
@Squarepeg01: ah yes isn’t it great that the rogue state’s focus is on the military industrial complex and destabilising the Mid East and not here. Thank you, Geography.
@Squarepeg01: Invading and flattening countries that don’t do as they are told and arming terrorists are the main reasons we can enjoy our morning latte? I see.
Yes it will bring peace. Anybody disagree? If so please explain to me how it wont.
@Liam Rogers: If it needs explaining its a waste of time
@Liam Rogers: this is about Israeli expansion into Syria backed by Trump. He has got to deal with Iranian support for Syria and doesn’t want another front opening in Korea which will hamper his capabilities in Middle East.
Check out GENIE oil operations in Syrian Golan Height and who is profiting from that illegal operation.
@M Bowe: so Kim is just nicely co-operating with Trump’s ME policy? Do you anti-US anti-Israel leftists even read back over your insane theories before posting?
@M Bowe: I just checked out that GENIE oil operation. It sounds like something from a James Bond film. You couldn’t make it up!
Genie Energy’s Strategic advisory board is composed of: Dick Cheney (former vice president of the United States), Rupert Murdoch (media mogul and chairman of News Corp), James Woolsey (former CIA director), Larry Summers (former head of the US Treasury), Bill Richardson, former Governor of New Mexico, an ex-ambassador to the United Nations and United States Energy Secretary., Michael Steinhardt, Jacob Rothschild,., and Mary Landrieu. Former United States Senator from Louisiana
Kim is making a total fool out of trump. The temporary peace talks have nothing to do with America’s input ( threatening to destroy the country). Kim is quite happy to allow trump to claim credit for the moment but no way is Kim going to rid North Korea of their nuclear deterrent after the Iran fiasco.
@John Bart: Look what happened to libya and gaddafi.
@Sean Conway: Or Saddam in Iraq…The US isn’t an honest broker..
DT was probably winging it in the early days of his presidency but he has grown into the job and surrounded himself with good men like John Bolton and James Mattis. He gets what the useful idiots on these threads don’t: “You know what gets you into nuclear wars? Weakness.” The Romans knew this as “Si vis pacem, para bellum.” (Look it up) Reagan had the same understanding and he set in motion the destruction of the Soviet Union. But of course Trump won’t get any credit from partisan liberals for bringing Kim in from the cold. That was all jaw-jaw from Moon Jae-in; nothing to do with standing tough before a despot. Good on him.
@Squarepeg01: his paymasters in Saudi Arabia know all about being tough,the latest footage of kids trapped under rubble and screaming for help after a Saudi double tap air strike made me feel weak. Never mind, the sacrifice these kids in Yemen are making is good for American and British arms sales.
@squarep
Amazing that the Romans knew about nuclear war!
@john doe: lots of wisdom to be found with the ancients. E.g. Ecclesiastes 1:9 “There is nothing new under the sun.”
@John Bart: I thought he was under Putin’s thumb?
@DrRexButts: oh yes, I forgot the simplistic liberal equation: ‘hawk = bad.’ But I’ll grant you the tax reform was pretty useless. What’s the use of tax cuts if you’re not going to cut spending too?
@Squarepeg01: Good men like John Bolton??? Neither your memory nor google work v well do they????
@Squarepeg01: Reagan also supported Saddam Hussein in the Iraq,Iran war.Iranians do not forget they lost 300,000 people in that conflict.
Unless your Palestinian, Iranian , Syrian, afghany, Libyan, Ukrainian, Venezuelan, Russian, or just unfortunate enough to live close to one of his golf courses if iv missed anyone please add
I really hate to admit it, and it’s taken me a while to say this out loud, especially because I don’t buy into what certain people are saying about his impact on the U.S. economy, but maybe, just maybe, his tactics are really having an impact on world politics. I’m a new York city dweller, where he is far from popular, a recent immigrant to this country, and certainly no fan, but maybe his tactics worked and he solved a decades old impasse that seasoned career politicians have fumbled over. Or maybe he just got lucky?
@Kevin O’ Brien: You may have a point, I’ve been thinking likewise, however there is a flaw in his approach, and this is why other experienced people don’t use it – you can only threaten voilence/war so many times before a) your bluff is called, b) you do it so many times it just becomes bellicose verbage. In the case of NK, he was in a good position – China would not want to involve itself in a military action you can bet they’ve told NK that, so the power of the US and allies against a small half starved nation of 25m would be a very one-sided affair. You might notice the rhetoric is less watlike with Iran, namely because they have allies, are larger (80m) and are in the middle of a complex set of international relationships.
His approach has supported the N Korean moves to get relief without losing face, it might not work in other areas such as industrial tarriffs etc.
@Tom Purcell: strong presidents DO use this strategy and it works. It’s not so much that they need to sound bellicose, rather they need to state clearly what they are willing to defend and possibly even go to war over. Truman made it absolutely clear that he would defend and supply West Berlin. Kennedy vowed that no Soviet missiles would be installed in Cuba. While negotiations and compromises probably took place behind the scenes, those were absolute red lines. Back when red lines actually meant something.
So the US has done exactly what N. Korea expected. They did what they do every time a member of the Kim family throws shapes – Kim 1 did it, Kim 2 did it (not very well) but current Kim is excellent at it.
The real reasons for any progress are with The South Koreans and Chinese. There has been a lot of S. Keorean diplomatic moves since their current president took office. Also the Chinese have been putting a lot of pressure on NK because they are fed-up of paying to keep NK afloat (alive), they are also fed-up of having their new global position being undermined by NK and most importantly they don’t want a conflict which could endup with US troops at the Chinese boarder.
On the NK side, the country is near bankrupt, is having difficulty paying international debts and is in near famine conditions – normally the Koreans manage to negotiate good behaviour for grain or other relief. This is exactly what is happening here. So Trump take a bow, for moving to the Korean choreography, allowing Kim to ditch his expensive white elephant of a nuclear program and still make himself look good at home.
There is no deal yet – just a meeting in Singaporn.
If only he’d stop talking. If he just showed up and showed a bit of decorum he’d find things much easier.
So America are getting rid of their Nuclear weapons too?? That would be good news.
@Rob Cahill: oh, so you’d be happy with Russia as the remaining nuclear superpower?
The same week he pulled out of nuclear deal with Iran ???
Bozo trump how could anybody believe anything that comes out of this lier
Kim is not as crazy as I thought. He realizes that in any conflict with the US North Korea would be the loser. He was just Sabre rattling but now knows he will have to behave himself.
Peace for the world while they bomb the shit out of every middle East country and their Israeli counterparts murder Palestinians :) The scary thing is stupid/fat Americans believe this sh*t
@Jack Goff: no,vwhat’s scary is you take the side and bona fides of kleptocratic dictatorships over Western democracies.
@Squarepeg01: And who supports the rotten Saudi dictatorship? Correct, western democracies.
The Korean situation- so far- is benefiting from Trump’s erratic persona; even Kim is wary of someone who’s mad as a box of frogs, and giving concessions accordingly. This is always my point in dealing with multinationals and the EU- the people who screw us while FG or FF ministers hold their coat- threaten them with back-taxes or an EU Leave Referendum and they’ll stump up their ill-gotten gains from sweetheart deals and the bank bailout, but only if they believe, really believe, we’d follow through on the threats no matter how crazy they seem; does anyone really think Paul Murphy or Richard Boyd Barrett wouldn’t get more from Brussels/Frankfurt than the sycophants we usually send? Of course Trump’s erratic persona is, at the same time, a real-and-present danger to the world in very other situation- the Iran/Israel one most immediately- and we shouldn’t even give him credit for having a pair, given his staggering stupidity and his own sycophancy, as exploited by Putin, Netanyahu and, once the Korean conference starts, Kim probably.
@Michael Bride: *every other situation^
Dopey dopey dopey…
There is a surprise awaiting Trump, but he is too daft to see it.
Why is he campaigning he is president!!.
Maybe Trump could meet with our North people and try to make them see sense after he is finished with North Korea.
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