Cooper Scolds Trump: Lay Off The 'Twitter Machine' And Read Your Briefing Book

Ed Mazza
Updated

CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Monday slammed President Donald Trump for siding with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un while on a trip to Japan over the weekend.

Trump joined in Kim’s verbal attacks on former Vice President Joe Biden, calling him a “low IQ individual.” Trump also downplayed North Korea’s recent missile tests, saying he had “confidence” in Kim.

“Perhaps [Kim] wants to get attention, and perhaps not,” Trump told reporters. “Who knows? It doesn’t matter.”

Cooper wasn’t satisfied with that reply.

“You know what? The president of the United States should know, and that does matter,” he said. “And if the president doesn’t know, he should take his fingers off the Twitter machine and maybe pick up a briefing book and do something that we all know he rarely does, which is read.”

Cooper also hit Trump for trusting Kim over U.S. intelligence, and he said the president was craving the adulation of “one fat little dictator with blood on his hands” the way he seeks the adoration of the crowds at his rallies.

See his full takedown below:

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A traffic guard goes through the motions in the capital of Pyongyang, where streets are almost empty of cars. (David Guttenfelder/National Geographic)
A traffic guard goes through the motions in the capital of Pyongyang, where streets are almost empty of cars. (David Guttenfelder/National Geographic)
Members of one of the world’s largest militaries, over a million strong, pack a stadium in Pyongyang in 2012 during celebrations honoring North Korea’s first leader, Kim Il Sung. (David Guttenfelder/National Geographic)
Members of one of the world’s largest militaries, over a million strong, pack a stadium in Pyongyang in 2012 during celebrations honoring North Korea’s first leader, Kim Il Sung. (David Guttenfelder/National Geographic)
Children mobilized for the annual mass games in Pyongyang act as pixels to portray a happy patriot in uniform. (David Guttenfelder/National Geographic)
Children mobilized for the annual mass games in Pyongyang act as pixels to portray a happy patriot in uniform. (David Guttenfelder/National Geographic)
At dawn, portraits of Kim Il Sung and his son Kim Jong Il are still lit up in Pyongyang. Even during the city’s blackouts, electricity is reserved to light the flame atop Juche Tower. (David Guttenfelder/National Geographic)
At dawn, portraits of Kim Il Sung and his son Kim Jong Il are still lit up in Pyongyang. Even during the city’s blackouts, electricity is reserved to light the flame atop Juche Tower. (David Guttenfelder/National Geographic)
A man tends to his bicycle outside a housing complex in Kaesong, not far from the border with South Korea. An exclamation point at the end of an emphatic propaganda slogan punctuates the scene. (David Guttenfelder/National Geographic)
A man tends to his bicycle outside a housing complex in Kaesong, not far from the border with South Korea. An exclamation point at the end of an emphatic propaganda slogan punctuates the scene. (David Guttenfelder/National Geographic)
All images are from the October 125th anniversary issue of National Geographic magazine.
All images are from the October 125th anniversary issue of National Geographic magazine.

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