Wonkette.
The Tiny Tyrant has had yet another tantrum, once again directed at McMaster, possibly the one person who simply doesn’t give a shit about the wannabe dictator’s dictums.
Donald Trump last month stirred up controversy when he said that South Korea should be the country that foots the bill for the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD), a missile defense system that’s a key deterrent against North Korea.
However, Trump was quickly contradicted publicly by National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster, who rushed to assure the Korean government that the United States would pay to install THAAD.
According to a new report from Bloomberg’s Eli Lake, Trump was absolutely furious about this and chewed out his own national security adviser during a heated phone conversation.
“Trump was livid, according to three White House officials, after reading in the Wall Street Journal that McMaster had called his South Korean counterpart to assure him that the president’s threat to make that country pay for a new missile defense system was not official policy,” Lake writes. “These officials say Trump screamed at McMaster on a phone call, accusing him of undercutting efforts to get South Korea to pay its fair share.”
I suppose we can be thankful there’s at least one person in the regime who knows what they are doing, and when to do it. Full story here.
This seems to be a typical Trump performance as a businessman: buy crap, try to sell high, settle for pennies on the dollar in bankruptcy court.
What’s funny is that when he’s dealing with experienced politicians like Xi and Putin, he’s so outclassed as a negotiator, he probably hasn’t got an idea what’s hitting him. Even Nieto outmaneuvered him. Trump the Chump. Hillary should have stuck that moniker on him.
Obvious solution: Assert that North Korea will pay for it, eventually, one way or another.