MINE’S BIGGER THAN YOURS, ROCKET MAN:
Trump shows ‘manhood’ in nuke tweet at Kim
DONALD TRUMP once again pushed North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s buttons on Twitter Tuesday.
In a taunting message that capped a day of eyebrow-raising tweets directed at various targets, the President hinted at nuclear war with North Korea — and declared he has the bigger trigger.
“North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un just stated that the ‘Nuclear Button is on his desk at all times,’ ” Trump tweeted.
“Will someone from his depleted and food starved regime please inform him that I too have a Nuclear Button, but it is a much bigger & more powerful one than his, and my Button works!” the President added.
It was just one of many verbal bombs dropped by Trump Tuesday — his first full day back in the White House after his holiday break, which was spent hitting the links at one of his namesake golfing properties.
Trump spent the morning crafting a series of caustic social media outbursts that included attacking his political enemies, groundlessly taking credit for commercial aviation safety and ripping into Iran — as well as other political targets — while watching his favorite news show. By evening, he’d taken on the world.
In a series of breathtaking tweets, Trump sent an apparent threat to cut off U.S. aid to Palestinians, insulted Kim and announced he would be handing out “Fake News Media” awards next week to journalists he deems to be dishonest and corrupt.
“I will be announcing THE MOST DISHONEST & CORRUPT MEDIA AWARDS OF THE YEAR on Monday at 5:00 o’clock. Subjects will cover Dishonesty & Bad Reporting in various categories from the Fake News Media. Stay tuned!” Trump wrote. He followed it up with a plug for his favorite Fox News host and ardent fan, Sean Hannity — but that tweet was later deleted from his account.
Not 20 minutes earlier, Trump had tweeted his aggressive message about North Korea — apparently prompted by a report on Fox News.
Roughly 90 minutes before that message, Trump unleashed a twopart tweet that seemed to suggest he would cut U.S. financial aid to the PalestinianAuthority.
“We pay the Palestinians HUNDRED OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS a year and get no appreciation or respect,” Trump wrote. The Palestinian Authority won’t negotiate with Israel, despite U.S. efforts to help, he continued.
“But with the Palestinians no longer willing to talk peace, why should we make any of these massive future payments to them?” Trump tweeted.
His messages were a followup to earlier comments about aid payments to Pakistan, in which he said the U.S. has received only “lies and deceit” in exchange for billions in aid.
In earlier tweets, Trump accused former Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin of violating security protocols in the State Department by using her personal email for work minutes after a Fox News report about Abedin aired.
He also added that the Justice Department should target former FBI Director James Comey, whom Trump fired last year amid an intensifying federal investigation into Russian election meddling .
Trump also tried to take credit for a recent report marking 2017 as the safest year on record in commercial aviation.
“Since taking office I have been very strict on Commercial Aviation. Good news — it was just reported that there were Zero deaths in 2017, the best and safest year on record!” Trump tweeted.
There hasn’t been a fatal commercial airline crash in the U.S. since 2009.
Trump’s actions regarding air travel last year included multiple efforts to deny people from several Muslim-majority nations entry to the U.S. and his failed attempt to privatize air traffic control.
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