Anderson Cooper on Trump’s N. Korea Tweets: He Should Pick up a Briefing Book

‘The president still acts like he’s a perilous real estate developer in New York lying about building height and who he’s dating’

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COOPER: “Who knows? It doesn’t matter. You know what? The president of the United States should know, and that does matter. And if the president doesn’t know, he should take his fingers off the Twitter machine and maybe pick up a briefing book and do something that we all know he rarely does, which is read. The president still acts like he’s a perilous real estate developer in New York lying about building height and who he’s dating and calling up gossip columnists using pretend names. The president is acting like a bystander who everything is going on. Who knows what’s going on? Believe me, it doesn’t matter. On the one hand, you might say this is one of the president’s vocal ticks, like we’ll see what happens. But keeping ‘em honest, what if this is really what he believes? What if in what he’s saying and how he’s jumbling it up with domestic Politics, the president is essentially indifferent to the rest, that he really believes it doesn’t matter? For instance, whether or not North Korea is violating international law and working to make its nuclear missiles more lethal. Eh, doesn’t matter. Doesn’t matter that by letting the north slide on short range missiles, he’s sending a message to South Korea and Japan that the United States is only looking out for itself and not them and signaling to North Korea it can do whatever they want because the president believes a brutal dictator wouldn’t break a promise to Donald J. Trump. He might have his family or top general executed with an anti-aircraft gun, but he certainly wouldn’t lie to Trump, or maybe he’s signaling that it just doesn’t matter what you say at the state of the union to the grieving parents of an American, Otto Warmbier, who was killed at the hands of Kim Jong-Un.”

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