{"id":21393,"date":"2017-05-01T02:25:24","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T02:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=21393"},"modified":"2017-05-01T02:25:24","modified_gmt":"2017-05-01T02:25:24","slug":"kim-jong-un-is-a-smart-cookie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=21393","title":{"rendered":"Kim Jong Un is a ‘smart cookie’?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Donald J. Trump is locked in a battle of wits with a young dictator who is threatening to launch a nuclear attack against the United States of America.<\/p>\n

So, how does the president refer to Kim Jong Un? He calls him a “smart cookie.”<\/p>\n

That is such an interesting term to ascribe to someone who starves his people while spending a grotesquely inordinate amount of money building up North Korea’s conventional weapons arsenal and also while seeking to become a nuclear power.<\/p>\n

Trump said on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” “And at a very young age, he was able to assume power. A lot of people, I’m sure, tried to take that power away, whether it was his uncle or anybody else.”<\/p>\n

He added: “And he was able to do it. So obviously, he’s a pretty smart cookie.”<\/p>\n

Smart cookie. That’s a term one might use to describe, oh, a nephew or niece who’s just been named to a high school honor roll, or perhaps to a small business owner whose company survived a serious economic downturn.<\/p>\n

The term “smart cookie” isn’t something most of us would attach to a murderous dictator.<\/p>\n

I kind of prefer the president use terms that are a good bit\u00a0more descriptive<\/em>, such as,\u00a0say, “cunning killer,” or “ham-handed tyrant,” or perhaps “ruthless bastard.”<\/p>\n\n

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Donald J. Trump is locked in a battle of wits with a young dictator who is threatening to launch a nuclear attack against the United States of America. So, how does the president refer to Kim Jong Un? He calls him a “smart cookie.” That is such an interesting term to ascribe to someone who … Continue reading Kim Jong Un is a ‘smart cookie’?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[886,1424,1675,2681,3335],"class_list":["post-21393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","tag-cbs","tag-donald-trump","tag-face-the-nation","tag-kim-jong-un","tag-north-korea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21394,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21393\/revisions\/21394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}