Trump congratulates Kim Jong Un on North Korea’s entry into World Health Organization, draws GOP criticism

Nypost ^ | 06/03/2023 | Jon Levine

[devere]

Trump is on record as praising Kim, Putin, and Xi as very talented: https://www.ibtimes.com/trump-praises-world-tyrants-xi-brilliant-man-putin-very-smart-kim-top-line-3685546 . So his congratulations to Kim, who he has previously said he admires, are certainly consistent with that.

I can’t criticize Trump for telling us what he really thinks. But knowing what he really thinks doesn’t make me want to vote for him again.

[Just mythoughts]

Ah, Kim was adopted by ol BJClinton, from the fallen soviet Yeltsin ... perhaps you slept through it ... remember ol not-so-bright toasting to the

https://1997-2001.state.gov/statements/2000/001024a.html

Great Seal Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright
Toast at Dinner hosted by the Secretary
Pyongyang, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, October 24, 2000
As released by the Office of the Spokesman
U.S. Department of State
Blue Line
SECRETARY ALBRIGHT: Chairman Kim Jong Il, Vice Marshal Jo, Foreign Minster Paek, First Vice Foreign Minister Kang, excellencies, ministers and colleagues, I have had the pleasure of hosting many dinners, but I never expected to play the role of hostess for such a gathering as this in Pyongyang. I thank you for coming and for the kind welcome you have shown to our delegation throughout the past two days.
This has been a very memorable visit. In such a short time, I have had a chance to see first-hand the beauty of your countryside, the charm and dancing skill of some of your youngest citizens, and the awesome acrobatic talent of your people.

Last night, our whole delegation marveled at the images of magnolia and “Kim Jongilia” flowers created by cards held up by your students. In fact, I am tempted to go out and touch the paintings to make sure the paintings are not cards.

I have also had a valuable opportunity to bring greetings to the Chairman from President Clinton and an extended chance to share thoughts with him about regional and bilateral issues.

I was gratified, as well, by the chance to meet President Kim and to renew my acquaintance with Vice Marshal Jo and Foreign Minister Paek.

These discussions cannot simply erase the differences that have arisen between our countries over the past decades. But our mutual willingness to talk, exchange visits, and get to know one another better is providing a platform for future progress.

As President Clinton has made clear, we want to work with you to remove the obstacles that have separated us in the past. We want to support you in your efforts with Seoul to overcome Cold War divisions, and in your upcoming talks with Japan. We are a peace-loving nation and desire to take steps with you that will ensure peace for generations to come.

Mr. Chairman, there are many dimensions to diplomacy, from intense discussions on security, to the establishment of diplomatic posts, to showing respect for cultural heritage, to the challenge of international athletic competition.

Sometimes, sports can serve as a mirror reflecting improvements in relations or as a springboard to further gains. For example, the world was delighted this past month to see Koreans from the North and South march together in Sydney under one flag.

Mr. Chairman, in the same spirit that has taken hold since the North-South Summit earlier this year, I invite you all to join me in a toast to friendship between our peoples, and to a new era of opportunity and promise throughout the Land of the Morning Calm.

Neocons are always looking for the next place to loot and ship into the US refugees ..

[Chgogal]

I like your name Obozzo.

[Just mythoughts]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/15/world-health-organization-why-has-trump-suspended-funding

What does the WHO do, and why has Trump stopped supporting it?
This article is more than 3 years old

Trump has suspended funding to the World Health Organization over its coronavirus response

I am beginning to suspect these that rage over President Trump have long term memory loss... Plus they suffer from sanctimony ....

[gas_dr]

Wow. Don’t you wish how the Trump worshipping day drinkers might just once reconcile their god with his vaccine project and ongoing defense of OWS as the best thing he did? Absolute silence hoping no one notices. I guess Trump is a $hot $hill and murderer.

Oh and he didn’t sack Fauci when he should have about two months into the pandemic. That’s right. He kept Fauci gainfully employed.

[philman_36]

What connections?

Do your own research.

Might I suggest starting here...but you can choose elsewhere.

Prior Donald Trump, Jeb Bush backers prepped to bundle funds for Ron DeSantis

Some of the bundlers were prior Trump backers. Others have records of support for former Gov. Jeb Bush, whom Trump knocked out of contention in the 2016 race for President. Follow the money. There's always connections.

[gas_dr]

I’m pretty sure I have read a decent book that has direct commentary on your unfounded judgment. Sad, you see?

[windsorknot]

[Just mythoughts]

Fauci is one of YOU .... Unbelievable to now see the images being readjusted to fit the lies.

[gas_dr]

Hard disagree. Fauci is not licensed to practice medicine in any state nor has he ever. Fauci has never made clinical decisions of any consequence. He is nothing but a petty tyrant. He wanted mandates and absolute power. Once he called for mandatory vaccination and started to practice economics I could not support him. Early on, everyone was pulling for some good news.

I have never endorsed mandates and in fact argued against them. I have never thought a lockdown was warranted. Trump allowed it and kept him employed. What is the answer to that?

[gas_dr]

😊🤫

[elenvee]

Forget Trump saying something nice to the N. Korean dictator. The point is Trump CONGRATULATED him for joining the WHO, one of the most powerful and dangerous globalist organizations on the planet.

And yet DeSantis is the globalist? Uh, no.

[Golden Eagle]

Do your own research.

ROFL! So, as expected, you actually DON'T HAVE any proof of these supposed connections.

Except your one link, that says they are actually connected to Trump TOO.

This is all oblivious to you, of course.

[nuconvert]

The fact that you acknowledge he’s a “psycho” should tell you whether anyone is going to “ make progress” with him.

There’s no good in N.Korea being in WHO. Trump should have kept his mouth shut. AGAIN.

[Just mythoughts]

It does take many words to split a hair. The mandates were only part of the ‘plan’ .. forced vaccination, wearing masks that in NO way prevented the movement of the spiked protein ...

I personally know several physicians ... they live in a liberal bubble, and bend the knee to the lancet ... some of these people are tops in their specialty ...

In the beginning candidate Trump raked big pharma over the coals ... I think one debate was majority Johnson and Johnson who was sponsoring Jeb .. please clap .. Big pharma was under the magnifying glass by candidate Trump from the get go ... Big Pharma is just an extension to big medical ... without Big Pharma the medical community would be in a world of hurt ..

IF you were paying attention President Trump mentioned more than once needing to change the ‘firing’ rules .. Fauci had committed no ‘crime’ to have cause to be fired ... the UNITI party made him a permanent position .... It was Fauci that declared in 2017 that President Trump would be faced with a pandemic ...

I remember you disclaiming a traveling nurse recording her experience in some New York hospital ... That disclaimer by you is when you showed me that you will do whatever it takes to cover up for your profession ..

[Wuli]

Ignorance you have.

Under its “maximum pressure” approach, the Trump Administration led the United Nations Security Council (UNSC)—including China and Russia—to pass three new sanctions resolutions that expanded the requirements of U.N. member states to halt or curtail their military, diplomatic, and economic interactions with North Korea. In repeated public remarks during 2017, Trump Administration officials, including the President, emphasized the possibility of launching a preventive military strike against North Korea.

It was following that that the dictator in the north pretended to be less beligerant and had muliple diplomatic initiatives be initiated, with China, Russia, South Korea and Trump. They made a lot of show but results next to nill. But what remained deterring the dictator was the last line in the paragraph above. THAT - not "diplomacy" is what kept the dictator in check, until Biden, whom he knew would not make such a committment.

[philman_36]

I guess Trump is a $hot $hill and murderer.

Dr. Fauci served as NIAID Director from 1984 to 2022.
You think a man in real estate is a shot shill rather than the man in the medical profession?

You don't even grasp how preposterous you sound, do you.

[gas_dr]

I disclaimed nurses making judgments outside their training and scope of care. Still do. Fauci worked in the executive branch. He could and should have been terminated. You can read what I have said about Fauci. The man is a class A jackass and not a physician. He held a medical degree and never practiced.

I tend to follow actions not words. Trump for whatever reason failed to reign in the little weasel. For all his bravado, Trump did not do what he said he would. He employed and left employed many of the people that the only Trumpers bitch about. It’s a bizarre dichotomy.

But seriously. Thanks for answering. You are the first one to actually make a reasonably direct answer. I think there are areas you are incorrect but at least you have made for debatable points. Let me state my position. I think likely you will disagree with some but these are not mutually exclusive thoughts.

I think Trump was the exact right man at the time. I absolutely support that the business of America is business. I think he created the single near economy by thinking like a business man. I was so pleasantly surprised when he recognized Jerusalem as the indivisible capitol of Israel. I am ecstatic at the judges appointed (although of late Kavanaugh is looking like a Souter rerun). I also happen to believe that Trump has come to the faith.

And that’s why I am so damn perplexed. If he has come to the faith he also knows that the fruits of the spirit include gentleness and humility. If he had a modest showing of these virtues according to the faith he would walk away with election. All the horse crap about hookers and affairs if we are to act by faith he had repented from when he came to salvation which I suspect occurred in the Oval Office. There are beautiful photos of multiple clergy laying hands on him and a look on his face of the peace that passes understanding. Only another Christian could recognize it. I suspect you see it too.

Why I don’t think I can support him currently in the primary is because he cannot appeal in this form to the middle 20% who are swing voters. He will engender as many broken glass voters for him as anyone but his. I don’t see where he is making in roads to flipping back the states that went for him.

I actually truly believe (and he even alluded to it) the should take a run at California and even if not able to win it will drain the democrats having to defend an expensive state that is locked up. It is my belief that California is right for a shock as normal Americans are over it there. I think that if Trump said he was going to ballot harvest hard and play by the same rules that lead to the steal from him I am all in.

I am looking for the guy (or girl or dog or tranny or Martian) who can win. If we don’t hold the Oval Office the current political entropy will continue. I am not calling a pastor. We are hiring a CEO for the country and as a stakeholder I will select the CEO that can get hired. Descant is strategy is political. It’s a valid strategy. He can run on results. Trump can paint with the bold colors of conservatism. He can win with his personality. He should answer to some of the dings in his record. Exactly what debates are for. But if he would use his eloquence and fight like hell attitude to taking it to the democrats and painting his plan instead of scorched earth of our guys (including McEnany) who was unquestionably one of the best press secretaries in terms of being erudite and charming I would be knocking on doors already for him.

Perhaps you might agree that he, like all humans, sometimes can’t help himself but it would be amazing if he could learn and adjust a little.

[gas_dr]

Trump kept him employed
Trump could have fired his ass and the buck stops with him
What I am pointing out is the high priestess of the church is St Peter the disgraced and their oracle (I imagine it’s getting to be time for another trust the plan safe space as they are getting their asses kicked and their threads draw no interest) cast nasty statements while ignoring that Trump is proud of OWS. Which by the way he should be. He engaged a modern Manhattan project and believed in Americans. He killed it with the ongoing employment of the idiot Fauci.

[philman_36]

I guess Trump is a $hot $hill and murderer.
You bring this on yourself.

Fauci, Collins Shared In ‘Secret’ NIH ‘Royalties’ Totaling $350M: Watchdog Report

The report from OpenTheBooks.com said the royalty payments, including at least 23 to Fauci and 14 to his former boss, Collins, were paid out between 2010 and 2020.

You can go back to the days of AIDS and find accusations aginst the man. Money buys silence as well as bad science.

“Since the NIH documents are heavily redacted, we can only see how many payments each scientist received, and, separately, the aggregate dollars per NIH agency,” Andrzejewski wrote.” This is a gatekeeping at odds with the spirit and perhaps the letter of open-records laws.” One more snippet... The report paints an incestuous picture of the NIH doling out $30 billion a year in grants to some 56,000 recipients in Big Pharma, research institutes and other entities, with money flowing back to the secretive agency’s scientists and senior management in the form of huge royalty payments. It is not yet known how much the payments to Fauci, who is the U.S. government highest-salaried employee at $456,028, totaled. I can't wait for that act in the show to play out.