Trump’s tweets came hours before he met with close ally Prime Minister Shinzo Abe during his four-day state visit.
President Donald Trump on Sunday took time out on his state visit to Japan to re-affirm his relationship with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and rail against a U.S. judge for partially blocking his border-wall funding plan.
“North Korea fired off some small weapons, which disturbed some of my people, and others, but not me. I have confidence that Chairman Kim will keep his promise to me,” Trump wrote in a tweet posted before 6 a.m. local time.
Trump’s tweets came hours before he met with close ally Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe during his four-day trip to Japan to discuss North Korean engagement, ongoing trade negotiations and to meet with Japan’s newest emperor Naruhito.
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In his later North Korea tweet, Trump also said he “smiled when [Kim] called Swampman Joe Bidan a low IQ individual, & worse. Perhaps that’s sending me a signal?”
North Korea has labeled Biden, the former vice president and Democratic candidate for president in 2020, a “fool of low IQ” and an “imbecile bereft of elementary quality as a human being” after he called Kim a tyrant during a recent speech, according to the Associated Press. Trump fixed the spelling of Biden’s name in a later tweet.
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At 4:35 a.m. Sunday local time in Tokyo, Trump tweet-slammed a judge's ruling against part of his border-wall funding as “in favor of crime, drugs and human trafficking"https://t.co/jUXmyrYu2d
— POLITICO (@politico) May 25, 2019
BIDAN?
I want the USA to have real borders. I want an end to misguided interventionism abroad. I want a hard line with the PRC.
But if you are OK with this incompetent, quite literally illiterate moron, YOU are part of the problem in this country.https://t.co/HDZ4X3NUe7
— John Schindler (@20committee) May 26, 2019
If you can't master basic spelling, don't run for POTUS.
Low bar there.
The global laughingstock America is now thanks to this mouth-breathing idiot…you have to be a MAGA fan not to notice.https://t.co/FsEYoLOrxX
— John Schindler (@20committee) May 26, 2019
I am a sharp critic of both Obama and Dubya. Both made serious mistakes. Neither of them made America a global laughingstock and a force for idiocy on the global stage. Both look magnificent compared to Donnie.
Both were decent men who loved our country.
We need that again.
— John Schindler (@20committee) May 26, 2019
Every president from Washington through Obama, 1-44, demonstrated — however imperfectly, often highly imperfectly — a healthy respect for the office and the will of the people it embodied.
No more.
We can restore this if we want. If not, look out.https://t.co/2SkNjt9hj9
— John Schindler (@20committee) May 26, 2019
The President holds the authority to launch nearly 1500 strategic nuclear weapons at will. And Republicans will say nothing, because abortion and judges and socialism and "well, it's just how he talks," when they'd storm the White House if this was anyone else. https://t.co/8p2coZ71We
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) May 25, 2019
These are the same Republicans – my former tribe – who pointed to every slip of the tongue by Hillary Clinton as evidence of fatal illness. Who took a dumb hot mic aside from Obama to Medvedev as treason. Who parsed every word from every Democrat for signs of betrayal. /2
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) May 25, 2019
It's stupid because, on a fundamental level, it's false. No one "talks like Trump." Trump-cultists in the heartland claim he's just like them, when in fact if someone spoke to them – or their loved ones – as Trump speaks to others, they'd punch them right in the face. /4
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) May 25, 2019
But because we fear resentment and status envy and intellectual insecurity, we all have to pretend that it's not a massive failure of character that an entire political party is too cowardly and un-patriotic to stand up to this man even when he's applauding Kim Jong Un. /6
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) May 25, 2019
Happy Memorial Day and thank you for coming to my TED talk. /8x
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) May 25, 2019
The signal is that you are a credulous, slackwitted boob who is easily tricked even by low-rent third world shitbird villians like Kim Jong Un. https://t.co/i2jL6oi6i5
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) May 25, 2019
Trump already sided with Putin against a Democratic rival. He can do it again because few Republicans complained last time. Tribe over country. https://t.co/8JiIijOJzn
— Garry Kasparov (@Kasparov63) May 26, 2019
In order not to be repulsed by this, you have to suppress every ounce of moral reason you have. https://t.co/7hCRpUrGh1
— Jay Nordlinger (@jaynordlinger) May 26, 2019
There was once a famous book: “The Conscience of a Conservative.” No conservative of conscience could tolerate what Trump has done concerning Kim and Biden. No conservative of conscience could fail to be sickened.
— Jay Nordlinger (@jaynordlinger) May 26, 2019
Republicans and conservatives used to mock and scorn American leaders who were credulous about Communist dictators and other enemies of freedom. That was a long time ago.
— Jay Nordlinger (@jaynordlinger) May 26, 2019
For many years, I railed against radical Democrats who clearly favored Fidel Castro against, say, Reagan. I’m no Biden man. But I’ll stand with him over Kim Jong-un. Even Charlie Rangel stood with George W. Bush when Hugo Chávez attacked Bush at the U.N.
— Jay Nordlinger (@jaynordlinger) May 26, 2019
Trump deleted the first version of this tweet, perhaps reconsidering the myriad disturbing signals he was sending. But nope, just wanted to make sure he got Biden’s name spelled right as he was inviting Kim to test missiles and mess with our democracy. Happy Memorial Day Wkd https://t.co/O8ZnvtTnlu
— Vipin Narang (@NarangVipin) May 26, 2019
But don't call his supporters stupid or unpatriotic. https://t.co/Nv2NM93NCe
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) May 26, 2019
President Trump: "Kim Jong un made a statement that Joe Biden is a low IQ individual. He probably is, based on his record. I think I agree with him on that." https://t.co/tzBI1e6Tb0 pic.twitter.com/NpWprpXjSR
— The Hill (@thehill) May 27, 2019
I’m sure Japan is really happy to hear this moron thinks Kim is an ok guy…as Kim aims his arsenal at Japan.
Isn’t it wonderful to have a president who embraces the enemies of the free world while he disrespects and disregards our allies?
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