Trump's Having Unsupervised Twitter Time Again

From Esquire

After a relatively restrained week of international diplomacy, President Trump returned to form this weekend, tweeting jabs at Kim Jong-un and the “haters and fools” who criticize the Trump administration’s relationship with Russia.

Speaking to South Korea’s National Assembly earlier in the week, Trump addressed the North directly, warning that "the weapons you’re acquiring are not making you safer, they are putting your regime in grave danger. Every step you take down this dark path increases the peril you face.” In response, North Korea's Foreign Ministry issued a statement, which said that the nation would never be intimidated by "reckless remarks by an old lunatic like Trump."

Exchanging taunts with Kim Jong-un like a pair of nuclear-armed grade schoolers has always been one of the president's favorite extracurricular activities, so he took to Twitter to express his chagrin at being called old, because apparently even he agrees that he’s a lunatic.

Trump also responded to criticism about his faith in Vladimir Putin's denials that he interfered in the US presidential election. "Every time he sees me he says I didn't do that,” the president told reporters, "And I really believe that when he tells me that, he means it.” The next day he appeared to walk back the statement, saying that he believes “very much in our intelligence agencies,” 17 of which agree that Russia attempted to influence the election.

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