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As the World Listens, Trump Confesses the Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name

As the World Listens, Trump Confesses the Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name

Last updated on: September 30, 2018 at 8:51 am by Susan Wright

As the World Listens, Trump Confesses the Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name 2018-09-30T08:51:31-04:00 Susan Wright

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On Saturday, the foreign minister of North Korea appeared at the United Nations and declared that his nation had no intention in nuclear disarmament, until President Trump fulfilled the promises he made to them.

Interestingly enough, Trump addressed the United Nations on Tuesday, and had only kind words to say about North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong Un.

Trump praised Kim at the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, saying that he was proud of his courage.

“I would like to thank Chairman Kim for his courage and for the steps he has taken, though much work remains to be done,” he said.

So what about those broken promises? Those promises were apparently made during the June 2018 summit between Trump and the North Korean dictator.

At the beginning of the summit, Trump and Kim met in a one-on-one setting, with no foreign policy aides or anyone to walk the novice president through the finer points of dealing with the leader of a rogue nation.

In fact, there wasn’t even anyone present to take notes, so we have no idea what was promised. What we do know is that a despotic regime was given legitimacy on the world stage – something no other president was willing to do – and our president emerged as a Kim Jong Un fanboy.

In the time since June, reports are that even though President Trump canceled the military readiness drills with neighboring South Korea, North Korea has done nothing to curb their nuclear ambitions.

But there have been handwritten love notes passed back and forth.

Apparently, as I’ve pointed out, all it takes to push Donald Trump right over is a little flattery.

Because he doesn’t know what he’s doing.

On Saturday, the president held a rally in West Virginia, under the guise of support for Senate candidate and current state Attorney General Patrick Morrisey.

It was the usual Trumpian fare, with the president spending the majority of the time engaging in effusive self-praise, before giving Morrisey a passing nod of acknowledgement.

He engaged in the usual attacks on figures from the left, relived his 2016 victory (again), and made a few absurd claims.

A really kind estimate would have about half of what he claimed during the rally as complete and utter ca-ca.

The bizarre, however, was not in the nonsense he spewed about things done by the Democrats, or about accomplishments he claimed that were not exactly factually “pure.”

Seriously. We’re used to that, by now.

No, the pinnacle of Trumpian insanity likely came when he began talking about his relationship with Kim Jong Un.

Truly, when I heard this, I face-palmed myself so hard I may have ripped a hole in the space-time continuum.

Trump said of the dictator that Kim liked him and he liked Kim.

Trump on Kim Jong Un: "I like him, he likes me. I guess that's okay. Am I allowed to say that?" pic.twitter.com/mq4r7gGlUX

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 30, 2018

Then it got bizarre.

He confessed to the love that dare not speak its name.

“I was really being tough and so was he,” he said. “And we would go back and forth. And then we fell in love. No really. He wrote me beautiful letters.”

“They were great letters. And then we fell in love.”

So to recap, about the man Trump is in love with, based on letters:

The Kim regime is a Communist, atheist government, where simply being found in possession of Bible verses could result in imprisonment, or worse.

North Korea is the nation listed as number one in the world, above even strictly Islamic nations, in Christian persecution.

Kim Jong Un had one of his generals physically dragged out of a gathering and killed with a flamethrower because, in Kim’s mind, the general had taken a disrespectful stance.

He also had his uncle and half-brother assassinated over fears of a coup.

Trump has praised how Kim’s people snap to perfect attention when he enters a room, by the way. He doesn’t seem to mind that they do this because they fear for their lives and the lives of their families.

If someone falls in disfavor with Kim, not only does that person suffer, but their children and families could be imprisoned and subjected to harsh labor and starvation, as well.

North Korea is a waking nightmare on earth because of the Kim regime.

We have a president who continuously praises this man, and who, while the world was listening, announced a love affair with a Communist, atheist tyrant.

Donald Trump is a weak, ignorant man.

Trump says this — earnestly! — about Kim Jong Un: "We went back and forth, then we fell in love. He wrote me beautiful letters. And they are great letters. We fell in love." pic.twitter.com/05KpsRgkZJ

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 30, 2018

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