Opinion: Trump’s nonsense on Otto Warmbier is mind-numbing and outrageous
By Kathleen Parker Kathleen Parker Columnist covering politics and culture Email Bio Follow Columnist March 1 If he were alive today, Mark Twain might say the following: “There’s lies, damned lies — and Donald Trump.” The president of the United States not only lies routinely, but he believes other people’s lies without a modicum of skepticism.
It is mind-numbing and breathtaking to hear such nonsense from a president who, if normal, would vindicate the victim through punitive actions rather than side with a violent dictator in some weird, contrived, nonproductive chitchat about nuclear weapons. Warmbier’s parents were appropriately outraged by the president’s cavalier comments — especially since he had used the Warmbiers as props during his 2018 State of the Union address — and they issued a harsh rebuke .
But Trump, who confessed to having a “warm relationship” with Kim, based presumably on whatever pheromones passed between them, said he believed the man he previously called “little rocket man.” This is because the president is a useful idiot; a malevolent force in the universe; a small-pawed, big-dog fanboy; a strategic genius.Option “c” is probable given Trump’s strange attraction to tyrants, dictators, murderers and thieves.
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