The Great Smoky Mountain Journal
Staff, Wire Reports
Posted: Sunday, January 21, 2018 03:56 PM
President Trump Says Tillerson's Negotiations With North Korea "Waste Of Time"
President Trump on
Sunday sounded a war drum over North Korean leader Kim Jong Un refusing
to abandon his nuclear weapons program, telling Secretary of State Rex
Tillerson to stop wasting time negotiating with Kim because the U.S.
“will do what needs to be done.”
“I told Rex Tillerson, our wonderful Secretary of State, that he is
wasting his time trying to negotiate with Little Rocket Man,” tweeted
Trump, using his mocking nickname for Kim. “Save your energy Rex, we'll
do what has to be done!"
Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump
I told Rex Tillerson, our wonderful Secretary of State, that he is
wasting his time trying to negotiate with Little Rocket Man...
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Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump
...Save your energy Rex, we'll do what has to be done!
10:31 AM - Oct 1, 2017
Several hours later, Trump sent another tweet that said that being nice
to Kim hadn’t worked for Presidents Clinton, Bush and Obama, why would
it work now.
"Being nice to Rocket Man hasn't worked in 25 years, why would it work
now? Clinton failed, Bush failed, and Obama failed. I won't fail,” Trump
wrote.
Trump has been on a Twitter tear this weekend, with nearly two dozen
tweets since Saturday morning, most slamming San Juan Puerto Rico Mayor
Yulin Cruz, a Democrat, for being critical of his administration’s
hurricane response effort on the U.S. island.
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Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump
Being nice to Rocket Man hasn't worked in 25 years, why would it work
now? Clinton failed, Bush failed, and Obama failed. I won't fail.
On Sunday, Trump returned to Kim and his pursuit of a nuclear arsenal,
despite more U.S. and international economic sanctions that reportedly
are having a severe impact on the rogue nation’s economy.
Trump and Kim have for months engaged in an escalating war of words, as
North Korea appear to be conducting numerous underground nuclear bomb
tests and launching intercontinental missiles,in an attempt to land a
nuclear warhead on another country.
Kim has called Trump “deranged.”
U.S. military officals have said all options are on the table when
considering how to deal with North Korea.
