On the 25th (local time), former President Donald Trump, the Republican presidential candidate, published seven posts harshly criticizing the vice president.
As if pointing to the armed conflict between Israel and Hezbollah, Trump asked: “Who is negotiating for us in the Middle East?” “Bombs are falling everywhere,” he said. “Sleepy Joe (Sleepy Joe Biden) is sleeping on a beach in California after being brutally ousted by the Democrats, and Comrade Kamala is a really bad vice president, the ‘Team Tampon’ (female-friendly Tim Walz, Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota). “We are on an election bus tour with ‘(a derogatory term for)’,” he criticized. He also said: “There is no future under Comrade Kamala. “She will lead us into a third nuclear war,” he said, adding: “The tyrants of the world will never respect her.” It seems that Vice President Harris directly refuted Trump’s comments in his acceptance speech for the Democratic presidential nomination that he was catering to a dictator or tyrant.
Trump continued: “Kamala and her ‘handlers’ are criticizing me as if I were a sitting President,” adding: “The last four years have been their failure, not mine. She is the worst Vice President.” At the same time, he also posted a separate message in capital letters that read: “November 5th (US presidential election) will be the most important day in American history.”
The Washington Post reported that Trump posted seven posts on X that day, the most since his account was reinstated. X’s predecessor, Twitter, suspended Trump’s account on January 6, 2021, saying it could incite an attack on Congress. However, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who acquired Twitter, changed the name to X and reinstated Trump’s account.
Meanwhile, there were claims that Trump mentioned attacking North Korean troops during a military parade during a meeting at the White House during his time in office. According to CNN, former White House national security adviser Herbert McMaster said in his upcoming book ‘War Against Ourselves: Realizing My Mission in the Trump White House’ that Trump said in a meeting: “What if we expelled the entire North Korean military when they’re having a military parade?” he was quoted as saying.
Former aide McMaster prefaced this comment while explaining that rather than pointing out Trump’s absurd claims at the time, White House staffers competitively flattered him. He said that even when former President Trump made comments like, “How about we bomb the drugs in Mexico to solve the drug problem?” his advisers tried to appease him by saying, “His Excellency’s instincts are always right.”
Washington = Correspondent Lim Seong-su joylss@kmib.co.kr
