Trump-CNN vid maker: My bad
THE RACIST internet troll behind a mock video of President Trump body-slamming a man with a CNN logo for a head has issued a mea culpa.
Redditor HanA------Solo posted an apology on Tuesday for the plethora of inflammatory and offensive remarks discovered after Trump tweeted out the video.
The user, who wiped his or her bigoted history off the chat site Reddit in recent days, called the clip “a prank, nothing more.”
“I am not the person that the media portrays me to be in real life,” the poster wrote.
Comments and posts disparaging Jews, Muslims, African-Americans and other groups made up the majority of HanA------Solo’s past on the site.
On Tuesday, the Redditor, remaining anonymous, was remorseful, claiming not to advocate violence against the press. The poster also chalked the controversial comments up to a virtual dependency. NORTH KOREA promised more “gift packages” of weapons tests for the “American bastards” as U.S. and South Korea unleashed their own show of force in response to the launch of the rogue nation’s first intercontinental ballistic missile.
The most recent test complicated an already tense situation in the region and triggered fears worldwide about the Communist country’s capabilities for mass destruction.
Worry spread across the Pacific to Washington and the United Nations, where a Security Council emergency session is scheduled for Wednesday.
The U.S. and South Korea wasted no time in responding as troops fired “deep strike” precision missiles into South Korean waters.
The joint drills demonstrated U.S.-South Korean solidarity, the U.S. 8th Army said in a statement.
And they appeared Pyongyang.
“The American bastards must be quite unhappy after closely watching our strategic decision,” Kim Jong Un was quoted as saying by state media. “I guess they are not too happy with the gift package we sent them for the occasion of their Independence Day.”
The exercises also flew in the face of the Russian and Chinese foreign ministries, who issued a joint statement earlier calling on North Korea to stop its nuclear and missile tests and asking the U.S. and South Korea to simultaneously call a moratorium on large-scale missile exercises — moves aimed at paving the way for multilateral talks.
“The situation in the region affects the national interests of both countries,” the statement said. “Russia and China will work in close coordination to advance a solution to the complex problem of the Korean peninsula in every possible way.”
It also said Washington was to anger using North Korea as a pretext to expand its military infrastructure in Asia and risked upsetting the strategic balance of power in the area.
North Korea’s Academy of Defense Science said its test marked the “final step” in creating a “confident and powerful nuclear state that can strike anywhere on Earth.”
U.S. military analysts later confirmed the test was a two-stage launch, with one missile soaring more than 550 miles before landing off the Japanese coast.
It flew a trajectory that experts said could allow it to strike Alaska.
“Testing an ICBM represents a new escalation of the threat to the United States, our allies and partners, the region and the world,” Secretary of State Tillerson said in a statement Tuesday night. “Global action is required to stop a global threat.”
After North Korea claimed earlier this year it was close to an ICBM test launch, President Trump took to Twitter and said, “It won’t happen!”
On Monday, Trump tweeted that he hoped China would “put a heavy move on North Korea and end this nonsense once and for all.”
But China made no signs that it was prepared to step up actions against the North.
Trump also tweeted about Kim, “Does this guy have anything better to do with his life?”
The President, who spent the holiday at his Trump National Golf Club in Virginia before attending a picnic for military families at the White House, did not mention the escalating tensions during his brief public statements honoring the nation’s independence.
Other officials expressed their displeasure over the timing of the tests.
UN Ambassador Nikki Haley tweeted she was “spending my 4th in meetings all day.” She included the sarcastic hashtag, “Thanks North Korea.”