Back to episode — Episode 103 - WAKE UP, PUNCHY
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Now all of you I think are watching the reactions to the president's trip and the generic agreement that they made to make things better. And this morning I'm reading that the president said that we're already safer. Essentially, I forget what words he used, but that the risk of war has now subsided and that we're safer than the way we were before. His critics want to argue that point. But here's…
← Previous segment →Colbert refutes me nightly. Well that's his job. And why did he praise Kim Jong-un? Same reason. Praising Kim is one of the ways that Kim will feel comfortable with the president. It's one of the ways that Kim will learn to trust him. It's one of the ways he'll have a good feeling. Because remember, people who use the facts to make decisions, they use how they feel about things to make decisions. So Trump is making Kim feel comfortable by complimenting him for the things he's doing right. He's simply not focusing on the past. Both leaders have said explicitly, they've said explicitly, let's let the past go. And at this point it looks like the president has things right where he wants them.
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Now if you say to yourself, hey but what about concrete promises of getting rid of their nukes and everything else? We definitely want all that stuff. But ask yourself, is it easier for North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons when we're trusting them in public and complimenting the leader and offering to help and stopping our war games that are provocative? Is that a better situation for him to…
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