Do I support President Trump? Absolutely. That DOES NOT mean that I agree with everything he says and does. I’m allowed to criticize him. I’m allowed to call him out for saying things that make me cringe. I’d like to think that’s one of the main differences between us and Democrats. They borderline worship their political leaders. (Please see how they treated Obama and Hillary.) I refuse to treat ANY political leader that way. I won’t. Not now or ever.
That being said, I have to call out Trump for dropping one of the most cringeworthy lines I’ve heard in a while.
During his rally in Wheeling, West Virginia last night, he said he and Kim Jong-un “fell in love.”
“I was really being tough and so was he. And we were going back and forth, and then we fell in love. Okay? No really,” Trump told the crowd. “He wrote me beautiful letters. They’re great letters. We fell in love.”
After dropping that line, Trump said MSM would blast him and call him “unpresidential” for talking about Kim Jong-un in that manner.
“Now they’ll say, ‘Donald Trump said they fell in love. How horrible is that? So unpresidential.’ And I always tell you, it’s so easy to be presidential,” Trump said. “But instead of having 10,000 people outside trying to get into this packed arena, we’d have about 200 people standing there. It’s so easy to be presidential.”
I get Trump. I do. I like that he’s not “presidential” all the time. Like it or not, Trump is just what the doctor ordered for America. We needed someone rough around the edges. We needed someone who was willing to get his hands dirty and handle the Democrats the way they try to handle us. This is how he talks, and I think he deliberately went a little overboard, because he KNEW it would tweak MSM. The thing is, there are other ways to tweak them. I just don’t have an easy time digesting this loving language toward a ruthless dictator who feeds his family members to dogs and murders his own people. I just can’t. Kim Jong-un is a nasty dictator. Period.
There’s no doubt that Trump has made significant strides with North Korea, and whether I like it or not, I think it has to be attributed to Trump’s approach. He’s RUTHLESS (Little Rocket Man and “I would never call him short or fat!”), but he pairs it with lovey-dovey praise when he gets what he wants. For some reason, that tactic seems to work with Kim Jong-un. Threaten to blast him into oblivion, but praise him when he does the right thing. It’s fascinating, but it doesn’t change the fact that I hated that line.
Still cringing.