This is good. Maybe the diplomats have agreed to ignore DOTUS tweets.
Still, a direct line between the Trump administration and North Korea? Somehow I donât find that reassuring. 
Youâre saying a chaperone is a good idea. Agreed.
Of COURSE we have a direct line of communications with North Korea. Itâs called Twitter.
and:
the U.S. would not recognize North Korea as a nuclear power
Guys, itâs a little late for that. Unless you think those seismic disturbances were Un falling on his fat ass.
Not to â one up ya â âŚ
But impeachment is a better one ----
Meanwhile, Congressman Duncan D âDopeyâ Hunter wants to attack North Korea now. Anything to make himself the subject of a news story that doesnât mention the DOJ investigation about his corruption problems.
Since President Donald Trump took office in January, the U.S. has restored a diplomatic back-channel between the State Department and North Koreaâs mission at the United Nations. Thatâs traditionally been a way for the two sides to communicate because they lack formal diplomatic ties.
Translation: Eventually, with much dragging of feet, the Trump Maladministration has figured out that all of those âstriped-pants diplomatsâ and career civil service employees actually did something. Something useful, and important.
The Honorable Gentleman should be dropped from the sky, a la Slim Pickens in Doctor Strangelove, only without the nuke. Let him ride on a dummy warhead, it would suit him very well.
Better than none at all. Tillerson, at least, seems to have figured out that a nuclear conflagration on the Korean Peninsula might adversely affect his stock portfolio, and therefore is worthy of some attention.
Just try to imagine President 20 adjectives communicating with a heavily accented anybody.
Dumbo would misunderinterpret everything they said and no smart phone or smart diplomat on the planet could decipher Trumpese.
idiot says whatâŚwhat? repeat ad infinitum
This clueless Putindickholster-II is lying too.
I will be extremely curious to see if Trump will say anything belligerent at all toward the DPRK regime while he is in South Korea in November.
Even Tillerson was impressed by Kimâs Dotart response. Culdnât resist the urge to tell him so?
Tillerson can be easily impressed by an eyelid flutter, or a bowel movement, so long as it leads to gas.or oilâŚ
I find myself reliant on the judgment of the NK regime to avert war. I donât think the US govât is able to control Trump.
I never liked Kelly to begin with, but his tenure as CoS has been a PoS. Trump has been at his craziest and most unstable in the past 2.5 months (since the Jr emails were published in the NYT). Kelly has been unable to restrain Trump from saber rattling vs. NK, from threatening the Iran nuclear deal, from stoking the flames of racism basically every week but punctuated by his response to #charlottesville, the NFL and now Puerto Rico.
When I read that WAPO article about the 4 days that Trump wasted on the golf course while PR suffered, I keep coming back to Kelly, How is it that the General was unable, and seemed to make no attempt, to focus Trump on the issue at hand? Why did he let Trump distract himself with the AL Sen runoff, the NFL, Lil Kim and the HC bill?
This is a general who was once stationed at Guantanamo. He knows all about the region and the risk of hurricanes.
I would love to see an extensive hearing on Puerto Rico as I think there are many questions that need to be asked.
However, one conclusion I draw is that if Kelly was unable to get Trump focused on an obvious crisis, I seriously doubt he could stop Trump from starting a war with NK, killing the Iran deal, or many other âparade of horribleâ scenarios that one can envision as within the realm of possibility under this Presidency.
Kelly should resign. The only person I can think of who could serve as CoS is Ivanka.
Would probably work better if the nit wit in chief would lay off the threats and insults and focus on addressing the probemsâŚbut we can dreamâŚ
According to WaPo, Trump just weighed in - via Twitter, of course:
A day after Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said the United States was in direct talks with North Korea over the nuclear crisis, President Trump said in a tweet, âI told Rex Tillerson, our wonderful Secretary of State, that he is wasting his time trying to negotiate with Little Rocket Man.â
Trump followed up by tweeting, âweâll do what has to be done!â
Thatâs certainly helpful. Watch out for the bus, Rex.
Yep, thatâs how diplomacy works. Set up a back channel to negotiate, then have the dotard-in-chief announce to the world that itâs a waste of time, and include a childish insult for good measure. Brilliant!
An obvious big part of the problem here is that trump and his base have the attention span of an ADHD kitten. Sanction and back-channel negotiation and all those other sane things take months if not years for their effects to be felt. Instead, if things arenât better 140 characters from now, letâs start a war.