The president attacked critics in the tweet for chastising his “too nice” treatment of Putin, and argued that they would similarly complain if he had taken a tougher stance on Russia’s election interference and foreign policy.
According to Trump, the proof is criticism he earned on his rhetoric toward North Korea’s Kim Jong Un. Trump dubbed Kim “Rocket Man” and threatened him with “fire and fury” last year.
“I got severely criticized by the Fake News Media for being too nice to President Putin. In the Old Days they would call it Diplomacy. If I was loud & vicious, I would have been criticized for being too tough. Remember when they said I was too tough with Chairman Kim? Hypocrites!” Trump wrote on Twitter on Friday.
I got severely criticized by the Fake News Media for being too nice to President Putin. In the Old Days they would call it Diplomacy. If I was loud & vicious, I would have been criticized for being too tough. Remember when they said I was too tough with Chairman Kim? Hypocrites!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 20, 2018
Journalists and some politicians slammed the president’s tough rhetoric aimed at Kim last year, accusing him of sounding more like a North Korean diplomat than a U.S. president.- READ MORE
[divider][/divider]President Donald Trump appears to have weathered Monday’s Helsinki Summit controversy unscathed according to the most recent job approval numbers.
The Rasmussen Daily Tracking Poll found Trump’s approval rating last Friday, before his one-on-one meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, stood at 46 percent.
As of Thursday, July 19, his approval number fell just one point to 45 percent, having registered at 46 percent on Wednesday, two days after the summit.
By way of comparison, on the same date during the second year of Barack Obama’s presidency he held a nearly identical 47 percent approval rating.
Trump received a torrent of criticism from members of the media, as well as lawmakers from both sides of the aisle, for seeming to be as ready to accept Putin’s denial of Russia’s meddling in the 2016 presidential race as the U.S. intelligence community’s findings that it did. – READ MORE
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