Trump Warns Of "Major, Major Conflict" With North Korea

DONALD TRUMP GAVE AN INTERVIEW TO REUTERS, AND DURING THAT 45
MINUTE CONVERSATION, THE ISSUE OF NORTH KOREA, AND POSSIBLE
MILITARY ACTION, TOOK PLACE.
I WANT YOU TO HEAR WHAT DONALD TRUMP HAD TO SAY ABOUT NORTH
KOREA, AND I'LL GIVE YOU SOME MORE CONTEXT.
TAKE A LOOK.
THERE'S A CHANCE WE COULD END UP HAVING A MAJOR, MAJOR
CONFLICT WITH NORTH KOREA.
ABSOLUTELY.
NOW, TRUMP'S ADMINISTRATION HAS NOT BEEN SHY ABOUT MENTIONING
THE FACT THAT MILITARY ACTION COULD TAKE PLACE IF DIPLOMATIC
STRATEGIES FAIL.
SO, HE SAYS THAT, "WE'D LOVE TO SOLVE THINGS DIPLOMATICALLY, BUT
IT'S VERY DIFFICULT."
HE AND HIS ADMINISTRATION ARE NOW EMPHASIZING BY
"PREPARING A VARIETY OF NEW ECONOMIC SANCTIONS WHILE
NOT TAKING THE MILITARY OPTION OFF THE TABLE."
INTERESTINGLY ENOUGH, THERE ARE MEMBERS OF THE REPUBLICAN
PARTY AND THE GOP THAT ACTUALLY THINK THIS IS A BAD IDEA.
CASE IN POINT, LAWRENCE O'DONNELL HAD A GOP STRATEGIST
ON HIS SHOW, RICK WILSON, AND HERE'S WHAT HE HAD TO SAY
ABOUT DONALD TRUMP'S POLICY REGARDING NORTH KOREA.
DONALD TRUMP KEEPS LOOKING AT THESE THINGS AS A REAL
ESTATE NEGOTIATION WITH A LOT OF BLUSTER, AND A LOT OF BLUFFING,
AND FAILS TO REALIZE THAT WE ARE DEALING WITH A COUNTRY THAT
IS NOT A RATIONAL ACTOR, AND THAT IS POISED TO DO DAMAGE
TO A SIGNIFICANT ALLY OF OURS IF WE MISCALCULATE ON THIS THING.
THIS COULD GET OUT OF HAND, AND A LOT OF PEOPLE COULD DIE
UNLESS DONALD TRUMP LEAVES THIS TO THE GROWN-UPS.
I WOULD MUCH RATHER HAVE MCMASTER, AND MATTIS, AND EVEN
REX TILLERSON HANDLING THIS, RATHER THAN THIS
INCOMPETENT MANCHILD WHO FEELS LIKE HE IS JUST MOVING TOYS
AROUND THE BOARD.
REX TILLERSON HAD THIS TO SAY.
ALL OPTIONS MUST REMAIN ON THE TABLE.
DIPLOMATIC AND FINANCIAL LEVELS OF ñ LEVERS OF POWER WILL BE
BACKED UP BY A WILLINGNESS TO COUNTERACT NORTH KOREAN
AGGRESSION WITH MILITARY ACTION, IF NECESSARY.
WE MUCH PREFER A NEGOTIATED SOLUTION TO THIS PROBLEM,
BUT WE ARE COMMITTED TO DEFENDING OURSELVES AND OUR
ALLIES AGAINST NORTH KOREAN AGGRESSION.
REX TILLERSON, BY THE WAY IS READY TO DRINK AN
INCREDIBLE AMOUNT OF WATER.
THERE WAS JUST A GIANT PITCHER OF WATER THERE.
NO ONE IS MORE DETAIL ORIENTED THAN YOU ARE, BECAUSE I
DIDN'T EVEN NOTICE THE PITCHER OF WATER.
WHAT DO YOU GUYS MAKE OF ALL THIS?
OBVIOUSLY NORTH KOREA HAS BEEN A PROBLEM FOR A LONG TIME, THEY'VE
DONE PROVOCATIVE THINGS FOR A LONG TIME, AND NOW ALL OF A
SUDDEN YOU HAVE AN ADMINISTRATION THAT DOESN'T
SEEM TO THINK BEFORE THEY SPEAK, AND, YOU KNOW, AMPLIFYING
THE RHETORIC COULD LEAD TO INNOCENT PEOPLE IN OUR
ALLIED COUNTRIES LOSING THEIR LIVES.
THAT'S CERTAINLY THE BIGGEST POINT OF DEPARTURE HERE.
I WAS GOING TO ASK YOU GUYS, FROM A SUBSTANTIVE POLICY
STANDPOINT, HAS THERE BEEN ANY DEPARTURE FROM THAT WHICH WAS
THE POLICY OF THE ADMINISTRATION PRIOR.
I'M NOT TALKING, MODESTLY THE RECORD IS NOT HELPING, WHAT I
THINK FROM A POLICY STANDPOINT, I'M ASKING LEGITIMATELY, DOES IT
SEEM THAT THEY ARE ñ DOES IT SEEM THAT THERE REALLY IS A
DEPARTURE FROM THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION'S POSTURING
WITH NORTH KOREA?
WELL, WE DIDN'T GET CLOSE TO WAR WITH NORTH KOREA DURING THE
OBAMA ADMINISTRATION, SO IF WE REALLY GET THERE, THEN
THERE REALLY IS A DEPARTURE.
BUT WE DON'T KNOW WHAT THOSE DIPLOMATIC NEGOTIATIONS ARE.
I DO KNOW THAT DONALD TRUMP IS NOT INTERESTED IN THE
WORLD, HAS NEVER EVER BEEN INTERESTED IN THE WORLD.
CERTAINLY NOT INTERESTED IN A PLACE WHERE THERE'S NO
CHANCE HE'S EVERYONE TO BUILD A HOTEL, AND IF HE DID NOBODY
IS GOING TO GO.
REX TILLERSON, WHO, I LOVED EVERYTHING RICK WILSON HAD TO
SAY, OTHER THAN THE MENTION OF THOSE TWO WORDS: REX TILLERSON.
I HEAR YOU, I WOULD RATHER REX TILLERSON BE RUNNING THESE
DECISIONS THAN DONALD TRUMP.
HE HAS DEMONSTRATED SOME COMPETENCE IN THE BUSINESS
WORLD.
BUT I DO NOT FEEL CONFIDENT WITH REX TILLERSON HANDLING IT
BECAUSE I DON'T THINK HE CARES ABOUT THE WORLD WAR
UNDERSTANDS IT.
WE NEED GROWN-UPS HANDLING THIS.
LIKE HILLARY CLINTON, OR JOHN KERRY.
THE REPUBLICANS HAVE HAD PLENTY OF GROWN-UPS IN THERE.
JIM BAKER, GEORGE SALTZ, KNEW HOW TO HANDLE THIS.
SO, DONALD TRUMP IS A GIANT, EGOTISTICAL, NARCISSISTIC,
INCONSISTENT FRAUD, AND LEFT TO HANDLE SERIOUS ISSUES, WHERE
NUCLEAR WEAPONS ARE AT STAKE, AND WHERE DEEP DOWN YOU KNOW HE
DOESN'T CARE THAT MUCH, I DON'T THINK ñ LIKE, I MEAN, I DON'T
THINK HE WANTS HUNDRED THOUSAND, OR 1 MILLION SOUTH KOREANS TO
DIE, BUT I DON'T THINK IT'S PASSING ON HIM AS MUCH BECAUSE
IT'S NOT 1 MILLION N. CAROLINIANS.
I SHOULD'VE SAID TO SELL CAROLINIANS TO KEEP THE
CONSISTENCY, DAMAGE.
IT'S OKAY, WE GOT WHAT YOU ARE SAYING.
I WILL AGREE WITH YOU THAT HE DOESN'T SEEM THAT ENGAGED ABOUT
THE SAFETY OF SOUTH KOREANS.
HE SAID THAT HE WANTS THE SOUTH KOREANS TO PAY FOR THE COST
OF THE ANTI-MISSILE DEFENSE SYSTEMS.
I THINK THAT IT'S NAMED FOR UNQUESTIONABLY THE BAD GUY
IN EVERY JOHN HUGHES MOVIE.
NOT JUST BAD, BUT BAD.
HE ALSO SAID THIS ABOUT KIM JONG-UN: " HE'S 27 YEARS OLD.
HIS FATHER DIES, TOOK OVER A REGIME.
SO SAY WHAT YOU WANT, BUT THAT'S NOT EASY, ESPECIALLY AT
THAT AGE.
I'M NOT GIVING THEM CREDIT OR NOT GIVING THEM CREDIT, I'M
JUST SAYING THAT IT'S A VERY HARD THING TO DO.
AS TO WHETHER OR NOT HE'S RATIONAL, I HAVE NO OPINION
ON IT.
I HOPE HE'S RATIONAL."
WHEN DID HE SAY THIS?
THIS WAS DURING THE REUTERS INTERVIEW.
WHAT A DOUCHE.
WHAT A FRAUD.
JESUS.
YOU HAVE AT YOUR BECK AND CALL, I NEED TO SPEAK TO THE CIA'S
NORTH KOREA CHIEF EXPERT, AND THE NSA EXPERT, AND BRING
GENERAL MATTIS IN HERE, AND WITH HIS GUY WILL, FROM A DEFENSE
DEPARTMENT POINT OF VIEW, WILL TELL ME ABOUT THEIR MILITARY,
AND WHAT KIM JONG-UN'S RELATIONSHIP WITH THE MILITARY
IS, AND I NEED IT IN FIVE MINUTES, AND THEY WILL DO IT,
WELL MAYBE NOT BECAUSE SOME OF THOSE POSITIONS HAVEN'T
BEEN FILLED.
GENERAL MATTIS IS A GROWN UP, SO GET HIM IN THE ROOM.
HAVE AN OPINION ON IT, GET A POSITION ñ GET IT ñ
GET AN OPINION ON IT.
HE MAY BE ABLE TO GET HIS HANDS ON NUCLEAR WEAPONS THAT COULD
REACH SEATTLE.
I DOUBT IT.
I'M PRETTY SURE THEY CAN REACH SEOUL, KOREA.
SO YOU CAN NOT HAVE AN OPINION ABOUT IT, HAVE AN OPINION
ABOUT IT.
NOW, ONE GOOD THING ABOUT THAT STATEMENT IS THAT IT'S NOT
PROVOCATIVE.
IT'S NOT INCENDIARY TOWARD ñ
BUT, HE'S NOT INTERESTED IN THIS.
HE NEVER WAS.
WE ELECTED SOMEBODY WHO DOESN'T CARE, AND NORTH KOREA IS A
DANGER BECAUSE SOUTH KOREA IS OUR ALLY, AND THE SOUTH KOREAN
PEOPLE, AS DO THE NORTH KOREAN PEOPLE, THEY MATTER, AND
PROTECTING THEM MATTER.
THERE ARE SONY PROBLEMS WITH THE WAY THAT NORTH KOREA IS
BEING HANDLED RIGHT NOW.
SO, ON TOP OF THE APATHY THAT YOU CLEARLY POINTED OUT RIGHT
NOW, THERE'S ALSO THE ISSUE OF AMPLIFYING THE RHETORIC TOWARDS
MILITARY ACTION, AND THEN THERE'S ALSO THE MILITARY
ACTION THAT WE'VE ALREADY TAKEN.
WE HAVEN'T PUT BOOTS ON THE GROUND, FIRING MISSILES OR
ANYTHING LIKE THAT, BUT WE HAVE DEPLOYED A GROUP OF WARSHIPS,
AND A SUBMARINE TO THAT REGION.
ALTHOUGH, I THINK THEY ARE IN THE PHILIPPINES WAS, WHICH
IS ABOUT 1500 MILES AWAY.
TRUMP WAS LIKE, WE PUT THEM NEXT TO NORTH KOREA.
LOOK AT A MAP, DUDE.
I WAS GOING TO GET TO THAT, HE ANNOUNCED THAT AND MADE A
BIG DEAL OF IT IN THE MEDIA, AND IT TURNS OUT IT'S NOT EVEN
IN THE RIGHT PART OF THE WORLD.
SO WHAT HAPPENS?
NORTH KOREA SEES HIM AS THIS INCOMPETENT PERSON, AND WE NEED
TO SHOW THAT WE ACTUALLY HAVE A SOUND STRATEGY; NOTHING
THAT IS ACTUALLY GOING TO SAVE THE LIVES OF OUR ALLIES,
IT'S GOING TO BE EFFECTIVE.
THE TALKS ABOUT SANCTIONS, AND PRESSURING CHINA TO CUT OFF
ECONOMIC RELATIONS WITH NORTH KOREA IS SMART, BUT IT'S
SOMETHING THAT CHINA, YOU KNOW, MIGHT BE WILLING TO DO IF
YOU ARE VERY CLEAR THAT THERE WILL BE SERIOUS
RAMIFICATIONS FOR THE COUNTRY IF THEY DON'T FOLLOW SUIT.
SO, I'M GLAD THEY HAD THAT MEETING WITH THE UN SECURITY
COUNCIL, I HOPE IT DOESN'T LEAD ANYTHING, I HOPE THERE'S NO
MILITARY INVENTION.
THE RIGHTS WOULD LIKE US NOT TO BE IN THE UNITED NATIONS,
AND NOW, YET, THANK GOD THAT WE ARE IN THE UNITED NATIONS.
HE DOESN'T KNOW RIGHT FROM LEFT, LITERALLY ON THE POLITICAL
SPECTRUM, HE'S JUST BOBBING ON THE POLITICAL SEA.
IT'S JUST COMPLICATED, WITH WHO WOULD'VE KNOWN THAT IT SO
COMPLICATED?
IN THE WORDS OF A GREAT PRESIDENT, DONALD TRUMP, IT'S
ALL SO COMPLICATED, WHO KNEW IT WOULD BE SO COMPLICATED?

Trump Warns Of "Major, Major Conflict" With North Korea

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