Apparently Trump’s feelings were hurt after the North Koreans said mean things! The Washington Post:
President Trump on Thursday canceled a planned summit next month with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, citing “tremendous anger and open hostility” from the rogue nation in a letter explaining his abrupt decision.
“I feel it is inappropriate, at this time, to have this long-planned meeting,” Trump said to Kim in a letter released by the White House on Thursday morning.
Looks like Mike Pence shooting off his mouth is what blew things up!
Trump’s decision comes hours after North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui, in remarks carried on the country’s official KCNA news service, said it would not “beg the U.S. for dialogue” and warned that it could make Washington “taste an appalling tragedy.”
Choe also called Vice President Pence a “political dummy” and criticized Pence’s recent suggestion that North Korea could end up like Libya if doesn’t come to the bargaining table.
“As a person involved in the U.S. affairs, I cannot suppress my surprise at such ignorant and stupid remarks gushing out from the mouth of the U.S. vice president,” Choe said.
Here’s his letter:
The letter from @POTUS pulling out of the Singapore summit with North Korea’s Kim Jong-Un. pic.twitter.com/UsYxIBFiFS
— Willie Geist (@WillieGeist) May 24, 2018
And here are some reactions:
https://twitter.com/AricHurkman/status/999660724795326464
https://twitter.com/BrianJOMalley/status/999659336011079681
https://twitter.com/LarryMurphyJr/status/999659318562697217
https://twitter.com/JeremyGreenlee/status/999660727240679428
⚡ U.S. stocks fell sharply Thursday after President Donald Trump announced that the hotly anticipated summit next month with North Korea was cancelled.
The Dow Jones industrial average has fallen 170 points immediately after the announcement.
— $. €. Invest₹ust 🇮🇳 (@SterlingFincap) May 24, 2018
If your real intention is to pursue peace with people then you don’t hire Cheneyesque warmonger Mike Pompeo, torturer Gina Haspel, and militant “pond scum” John Bolton to get the job done.
Nor do you fill out the negotiating team with know-nothing, loud-mouth Nikki Haley and Evangelical Christian, war hawk Mike Pence.
Warmongers of all political stripes didn’t not want the summit to take place.
So when the losers Pence, Pompeo and Bolton suggested, in unison, using the “Libya Model” for North Korea the game was over.
Of course Trump didn’t help his cause by acting like mister tough guy during the Chinese trade talks with Steve Manure.
So much for Trump’s Nobel Peace Prize.