{"id":35792,"date":"2017-10-01T12:03:21","date_gmt":"2017-10-01T19:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=35792"},"modified":"2017-10-01T12:28:23","modified_gmt":"2017-10-01T19:28:23","slug":"donald-trump-kneecaps-his-own-secretary-of-state-while-hinting-at-war-with-north-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=35792","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump Kneecaps His Own Secretary of State While Hinting at War with North Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you thought Donald Trump couldn&#8217;t get worse, you don&#8217;t know Trump. On Sunday morning he unleashed another flurry of insane and dangerous tweets. They included the obligatory and tedious attacks on the media. And he also fired off new insults aimed at the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=35787\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">suffering people of Puerto Rico<\/a><\/strong> and their brave mayor. Of course he couldn&#8217;t refrain form exalting himself and the greatness he thinks he&#8217;s achieving.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-tillerson.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump Rex Tillerson\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35795\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/posts\/1889472691067517\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Advs\/fb-share-tn.jpg\" width=\"274\" height=\"20\" class=\"aligncenter\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>However, the worst utterances in his latest Twitter tantrum were directed at his own Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson. Trump has often shown no hesitation to belittle and undermine people on his White House staff. He seems to have no consciousness of the damage it does to the nation&#8217;s reputation and credibility. And with that carelessness and bile he posted these troubling tweets:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8230;Save your energy Rex, we&#39;ll do what has to be done!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/914497947517227008?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 1, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Tillerson has recently made public comments alluding to negotiations with North Korea. While in China this weekend he <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thetwo-way\/2017\/09\/30\/554727610\/we-do-talk-to-them-u-s-and-north-korea-in-direct-contact\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told reporters<\/a><\/strong> that <em>&#8220;We have a couple, three channels open to Pyongyang. We can talk to them, we do talk to them.&#8221;<\/em> He added that <em>&#8220;I think everyone would like for it to calm down.&#8221;<\/em> Well, apparently not everyone. In fact, just this August Trump <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realdonaldtrump\/status\/902875515534626817\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tweeted<\/a><\/strong> that <em>&#8220;Talking is not the answer.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Now Trump is virtually sabotaging the efforts of Tillerson and the State Department to peacefully denuclearize North Korea. And it isn&#8217;t merely a public disagreement with a particular policy. Trump called Tillerson&#8217;s diplomacy a waste of time. It&#8217;s an attitude of hostility toward negotiations that is emblematic of his presidency. Where is the dealmaker he pretends to be? His <em>&#8220;art of the deal&#8221;<\/em> is nothing more than trash talk and bullying.<\/p>\n<p>Trump followed up that bluster with another infantile insult to Kim Jong Un as <em>&#8220;Little Rocket Man.&#8221;<\/em> Seriously, did Trump ever get past the third grade? How exactly does he think that advances the goals of the United States, and the world, to achieve nuclear disarmament? To the contrary, he has given Kim justification for worrying about a U.S. attack. He is validating Kim&#8217;s motivation to build up a nuclear arsenal. And Trump&#8217;s cryptic comment about doing <em>&#8220;what has to be done&#8221;<\/em> will only exacerbate the problem. Especially after threatening to <em>&#8220;totally destroy&#8221;<\/em> North Korea in his speech to the United Nations last month.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump is proving that he is not only unfit to hold this office, but that he is an imminent danger to the world. His reckless rhetoric and ignorance of international affairs would be bad enough. But his inability to even maintain coherent unity within his own government suggests something far worse than mere incompetence. It paints a picture of a deranged man grappling with forces he can&#8217;t possibly understand.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00QSSMOES\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00QSSMOES&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=newscorpsecom-20&#038;linkId=TLI6JC2OYE22MUTS\" target=\"_blank\">Fox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><br \/>\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>You have to wonder where his staff is while he&#8217;s ranting uncontrollably. Can his Chief of Staff, John Kelly, be comfortable with this behavior? And where is the Republican Party and its leaders in Congress? Are they all willing to see this devolve into an unnecessary war of atomic proportions? The media also has a role in shining a light of rationality on this before it turns into catastrophe. Finally, special counsel Robert Mueller may be the one figure left to save us all from Trump&#8217;s Apocalypse. An anxious America is waiting on you, Mr. Mueller.<\/p>\n<p><strong>THIS JUST IN:<\/strong> Another tweet:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Being nice to Rocket Man hasn&#39;t worked in 25 years, why would it work now? Clinton failed, Bush failed, and Obama failed. I won&#39;t fail.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/914565910798782465?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 1, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Nobody is being nice to him you moron. Negotiations that threaten sanctions and international isolation are not invitations to a party. And why won&#8217;t you fail? You&#8217;ve failed at EVERYTHING else. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you thought Donald Trump couldn&#8217;t get worse, you don&#8217;t know Trump. On Sunday morning he unleashed another flurry of insane and dangerous tweets. They included the obligatory and tedious attacks on the media. And he also fired off new insults aimed at the suffering people of Puerto Rico and their brave mayor. Of course [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35795,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,1200],"tags":[554,1268,1263,1255],"class_list":["post-35792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-politics","tag-donald-trump","tag-john-kelly","tag-kim-jong-un","tag-rex-tillerson"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-tillerson.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-9ji","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":37294,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=37294","url_meta":{"origin":35792,"position":0},"title":"FAKE NEWS! 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