Why Trump ‘fell in love’ with Kim Jong Un

Filed 5d ago · Via Courthouse News · The Buffoon Desk

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The column argues that Trump's posture toward North Korea — including cutting short U.S.-South Korea military drills at his own directive and praising Kim Jong Un's 'unthreatening and respectful' regime — mirrors authoritarian habits he shares with Kim.

It cites Trump's public claim of 39,000 troops in South Korea against the actual figure of 28,500, his demand to retrofit aircraft carriers with WWII-style features, and his administration's removal or restriction of federal datasets.

The piece also notes North Korea's estimated arsenal of dozens of nuclear weapons and its recent troop deployments to Russia, contrasted with Trump's continued warmth toward Kim despite that threat.

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There is something clarifying about a head of state who admires strongmen not for their strategy but for their working conditions — the absence of oversight, the absence of a hostile figure count, the absence of anyone insisting the numbers be the numbers. A leader who inflates a troop total upward by ten thousand isn't lying so much as auditioning for a system where nobody would bother to check. The alarming part isn't the affection; it's that the affection is entirely rational given what he seems to want the job to be.

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