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Trump: My Button Is Bigger Than Your Button.

(70 Posts)
BlueBelle Wed 03-Jan-18 20:22:40

NK would not bother anyone but their own brainwashed population if Trump the idiot didn’t keep rattling the bars he s like a kid poking a stick at a tiger until it snaps They are both psychopathic despots but Trump is the biggest most ignorant idiot the world has ever come across

Cherrytree59 Wed 03-Jan-18 19:58:08

A slither of hope.
CNN news 21hrs ago
South Korean President Moon Jae-in
welcomed Kim Jong Un's apparent willingness to enter into dialogue and called for swift measures to help North Korea participate in the 2018 winter Olympics in Pyeongchang.

An opportunity not to be wasted?

paddyann Wed 03-Jan-18 19:18:10

considering how NK was devastated by the Americans in the past I can understand their fear I dont understand Trump...at all.Or the fact the Americans still have bases in SK which is a threat to the north anyway.To be honest I'm surprised Trump is still president and if I was religious I'd be offering up prayers for him to be sacked ..tomorrow if not sooner .He's a liability ..not just for America but for the whole world

Iam64 Wed 03-Jan-18 19:12:35

I'm struggling not to feel just a bit scared. Laughing out loud at their ridiculous comments helps but really - how did this not very bright, totally lacking in diplomatic skills individual become the Potus. We all know how Kim Sung thing got to become a dictator

annodomini Wed 03-Jan-18 18:31:34

I saw a cartoon on FB this morning with two small boys saying 'Mine's bigger than yours'. Very apt.

Fennel Wed 03-Jan-18 16:33:49

It reminds me of that film Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.

nanaK54 Wed 03-Jan-18 16:25:45

They both frighten the living daylights out of me

Grandma70s Wed 03-Jan-18 16:08:35

It would be very, very funny if they weren't in such powerful positions. I see Trump’s tweets quoted and can’t believe they’re genuinely written by an adult, but apparently they really are his.

phoenix Wed 03-Jan-18 16:02:36

Ah, but who's got the biggest hands??????

eazybee Wed 03-Jan-18 15:57:10

I'm ashamed to say that when I heard the announcement 'my button is larger than your button' I sniggered. But it isn't funny; two men behaving like schoolboys over grown ups' very serious toys.
An acquaintance with American friends and relations said yesterday that they are all convinced Trump will be impeached, and forced to go. But how long, Lord, how long?

Day6 Wed 03-Jan-18 15:26:26

That's a good point Cold.

Have just read an interesting article (via another thread) which states "almost every time Trump tweets, the United States seems to grow weaker and the rest of the world stronger."

Very interesting read regarding how the most recent presidents of the USA have damaged the nation's standing abroad with regard to foreign policy. (Trump has to take the biscuit though!)

www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-rothkopf-iran-protests-20180103-story.html

Cold Wed 03-Jan-18 15:12:37

Good grief they are both behaving like squabbling 9 year olds!

Trump is giving Kim Jong Un everything he wants - power through the creation of uncertainty and tension especially as he can play Trump so easily when Trump is totally unable to control himself.

I would expect it will ramp up in the coming weeks as there is nothing that Kim would like more than to sabotage the Winter Olympics in arch enemy South Korea by creating an international crisis of mistrust.

Teetime Wed 03-Jan-18 15:04:13

BCSD!

Day6 Wed 03-Jan-18 15:03:12

grin I know OurKid1

I too saw Trump's retaliation reported in just the same way and wondered if he was navel-gazing. Then I realised that he didn't do introspection or soul-searching. grin

OurKid1 Wed 03-Jan-18 14:45:40

Oh dear ... sorry to be inappropriately light-hearted, but when I saw the title of this thread, I had a vision of Trumps belly button! I am now going to have work very hard to erase that image from my mind.

Day6 Wed 03-Jan-18 14:31:40

I abhor Trump...and Kim Jong Un.

However, if North Korea makes threats, how should Trump respond to them? Should he ignore what is going on in North Korea? Part of me is bemused that Trump is actually confronting him head on with two fingers raised. Very un-Presidential.

It is terrifying that these two hot-headed and arrogant men have such power.

OldMeg Wed 03-Jan-18 13:55:51

I can’t stand him he’s a pompous ass with an IQ in single figures.

BlueBelle Wed 03-Jan-18 13:54:06

I know what I d like to do with his button and it wouldn’t look too button like when I d finished I cannot imagine the word admire and trump going in the same sentence

Day6 Wed 03-Jan-18 13:53:32

Arm*a*geddon.

Day6 Wed 03-Jan-18 13:51:52

I cannot believe Trump. He ought to write the "How Not to Do Diplomacy" handbook.

Was he right to stand up to North Korea's equally barmy Kim Jong Un? Part of me admires his lack of tact in this instance. If we tiptoe around bullies it gives them power. Is Trump's confrontation so bad? It's a weird way for heads of state to behave, for sure.

Their playground 'bring it on' behaviour could result in Armegeddon. sad

news.sky.com/story/my-button-is-much-bigger-trump-threatens-north-korea-with-nuclear-war-11193800