Trump Was Elected President To Chew Bubblegum And Kick Ass…And He’s All Out Of Bubblegum

“Normally, your ass would be dead as fucking fried chicken, but you happen to pull this shit while I'm in a transitional period so I don't wanna kill you, I wanna help you.” ─ Jules Winnfield from the movie Pulp Fiction

President Trump’s rhetoric on North Korea, according to The New York Times, has “reached a level that has alarmed allies in Asia and many Americans at home.” 

Democrats pissed and moaned saying the president was “inflaming the confrontation” and called for diplomacy instead. More than 60 House Democrats sent a letter on Thursday to Secretary of State Tillerson asking him to restrain the president. “These statements are irresponsible and dangerous and senselessly provide a boon to domestic North Korean propaganda, which has long sought to portray the United States as a threat to their people,” the letter said.

Antagonists of the president are refusing to blame the crazy fat kid but Trump instead, as the zealot escalating tensions between the two countries.  USA Today’s morning headline read, “Trump Continues to Shock With His Belligerent Comments.”

Bellicose words are verboten for Trump to utter, but when Samuel L. Jackson does it to a white guy at a Denny’s it’s perfectly fine.

An Emphatically Ascendant Nightmare

I was among those who were stunned and dismayed when then-candidate Donald Trump described John McCain during a Family Leadership Summit in Ames, IA in July of 2015 as “not a war hero.”

“He’s a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured.”

He mocked McCain for having graduated near-last in his class at the US Naval Academy and called him a loser for failing in his bid for president in 2008.

Yesterday, the Arizona senator who has been in office for 30 years popped off following President Trump’s threat to rain “fire and fury” on the hermit nation of North Korea. 

"I take exception to the President's comments because you gotta be able to do what you say you're gonna do...In other words, the old walk softly but carry a big stick, Teddy Roosevelt's saying, which I think is something that should've applied because all it's going to do is bring us closer to a serious confrontation. I think this is very, very, very serious…The great leaders I've seen don't threaten unless they're ready to act and I'm not sure President Trump is ready to act...It's the classic Trump in that he overstates things."

McCain finally found a country he didn't want to bomb. Just so happens it's one that the Dreaded Trump is talking about. https://t.co/cPLOpESrop

— Baby Goat Alliance (@AceofSpadesHQ) August 8, 2017

McCain may be one of the last hawks left in office but the old bird sure can flap his wings when he wants to beat the drums of war as Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee.

"And so, maybe it will turn out alright, he's the president, I'm not," McCain said. "But I don't think that some of the great leaders that I have admired would have taken that same path."  When asked to rate the North Korean threat on a scale of one to 10, McCain said, "I'd say 6, 6 or 7." 

Well Maverick, you old fart, I think when the elapsed time is a mere 39 minutes for one of North Korea’s ICBMs to strike New York City the threat is far greater than a 6 or 7.

This nightmare is an emphatically ascendant one.

No one could doubt that the Sept. 11 terrorists would have gladly used nuclear bombs instead of airplanes if they had had them, and it seems only a matter of time until they try. Instead of a retreating threat in North Korea, that fanatical regime now possesses as many as eight nuclear bombs, and is just one member of a growing nuclear club.

S. Dakota #Airmen arrive on Guam; conduct #bilateral missions w/Japan & ROK--U.S. ready to #fighttonight https://t.co/DhOTTdNT19 pic.twitter.com/HSOkYKHPQ4

— PACAF (@PACAF) August 8, 2017

Rex Tillerson on North Korea: @realDonaldTrump "is sending a strong message to North Korea in language Kim Jong-un would understand." pic.twitter.com/yItUSKE422

— Fox News (@FoxNews) August 9, 2017

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