Posted on 04/11/2016 8:26:14 PM PDT by reaganaut1
Two weeks ago, Donald J. Trump said he could live with a nuclear-armed Japan and South Korea if it meant they could defend themselves against North Korea without American aid. “I’m not sure that would be a bad thing for us,” he said.
Since then he has changed his tune. After Japanese and South Korean officials raised fears of an Asian arms race, and President Obama ridiculed his remark, Mr. Trump began to say he did not actually want the two countries to obtain nuclear weapons — but that, because of American weakness, “at some point it could happen anyway.”
It was not the first time Mr. Trump has hastily added deflating caveats to his headline-grabbing trial balloons.
In a debate a month ago, he declared himself in favor of torture if it would extract information from terrorists, then issued a statement saying he would respect the law, then followed it up by saying that the law must be changed.
In a television interview on March 30, he suggested that women who have illegal abortions should face “some form of punishment,” then reversed himself in another carefully worded statement, then suggested in an interview that abortion should remain legal, then effectively clicked “undo” with another written statement.
In each case, Mr. Trump appeared to be seeking a sort of shelter somewhere between his original remark and the wave of objections it set off.
None of this seemed to matter much until recently. But the Trump style — long on gut instincts, short on briefing books — has taken a toll. His opponents have called him reckless and unfit to be commander in chief. Mr. Obama has said Mr. Trump “doesn’t know much about foreign policy, or nuclear policy, or the Korean Peninsula, or the world generally.”
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Oh how awful. Trump is about to have his best 3 weeks to date resulting in 1100 delegates. Oh the pity. Cruz only wish to have it so terrible.
for what it’s worth, just a few moments ago, trump supporters posted an NYT article that they thought supported them. sauce for the goose, and all that.
Mom! I think the boys and girls at the New Yawk Times need their Huggies changed!
Trump is always about to do something that doesn’t happen—Don’t count your eggs before they hatch.
So. Nobody really knows where he stands on anything. Shocker.
Washington Compost, New York Slimes, Los Angles Slimes, as well as any other offbeat leftwing rag that might have a negative to report.
Must be 2ndDV’s bathroom break time.
You mean Rage and Vetsy aren’t the same poster? That’s gonna double my workload. (:^D)
LOL !
thanks !
OMG, I hope not.
He’ll drop from exhaustion.
Yeah, what’s next? The National Enquirer?
Yeah, how’s it feel to have low blow attacks? We have been enduring them for many months. But there is absolutely zero proof that trump has any involvement in that story at all. Evidence actually points to Rubio.
My goodness, this man is a clueless embarrassment. He reminds me of Obama in so many ways.
Joel Osteen gets that many people to his church every Sunday. Maybe we should elect Joel Osteen.
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