WH Corrects Trump After He Claims FLOTUS Knows Kim Jong-Un Well

The White House clarified on Monday that first lady Melania Trump had never met North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un, after President Donald Trump claimed his wife had gotten to know Kim as well.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1244842

That would be one explanation. Occam’s Razor suggests that the better answer would be that he just makes shit up.

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Another day, another round of damage control by Deranged Donnie’s spin doctors.

Congratulations, Stephanie.
Most people who shovel bullsh*t for a living don’t earn six figures.

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Or maybe Trump has tried some Melania diplomacy of a sort designed to woo Kim’s heart, but which Melania does not want made public. It’s a theory.

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The First Lady knows a dictator well that she’s never met…maybe that’s because she knows a dictator wannabe so well and he’s projecting.

It’s pretty sad we’re seeing insane statements like this from Trump, and then have the media going bananas because Biden says something mildly confusing…the difference isn’t even close, but this stuff gets a pass while Biden is nearing the point people are calling him crazy uncle or something like that, and meaning it seriously.

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Ivanka went with him and met Chairman Kim. I guess when you view your daughter and your wife from the same perspective (yeah, I meant that) you can forget which one you took along to meet your BFF.

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To be fair, Kim Jong Un is a raving obese lunatic with bloodthirsty and authoritarian tendencies, a megalomaniac, and so on.

So Melania really does know him, in a way.

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Poor Trump–confusing his crushes with other people’s lives.

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“Shit is made up constantly”. He doesn’t earn active agency here, because it’s not clear to me that it’s intentional or optional. He could not speak truthfully if he wanted to. He doesn’t even grok the concept of truthfulness.

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With respect to Melania and her possible relationship with Kim, all I can say is “I Really Don’t Care, Do U?” But for Donnie, there is a thin line between embellishing and lying and he is a compulsive liar, a damned, compulsive liar.

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Melania knows Frederick Douglass personally, too.

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But not nearly as well as Justin Trudeau.

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Hey, you should be president, if “saying what we’re all thinking” is the main criterion.

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Damn… You’re harsh today.

Give Donnie a break. He just found out that his third wife is cheating on him, after his daughter had cheated on him before with the same dude!

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Yes, I’m curious if he doesn’t think of Ivanka when he says “First Lady” in general – I’ve always gotten the sense that Melania Knauss lives in the same cubby hole in his memory inhabited by “Jeffrey Epstein’s Russian models” and “desperate Miss Universe contestants.”

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It could happen. If you were mired in some sort of regrettable entanglement with Trump, Kim might look pretty good.

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This.

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Does FLOTUS have a security clearance to hear the “detailed elements” about the relationship with Kim Jong Un?

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He got confused and was thinking about his real love.

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“Oh, Justin, dahlink! When you talk about carbon footprints it makes me all squiggly inside!”

Trudeau%20Melania

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