Aides warn Trump to go light vs. 'Rocket Man'

Top aides to President Trump have been warning him over and over not to continue with his personal attacks against North Korean leader 'Fat Face' Kim Jong Un. They specifically told him to cool his jets before the UN speech this week, but Trump's jets were hotter than the core of an H-bomb.

The aides told him that insulting Kim in such a global venue could escalate tensions and end any chance for negotiations to diffuse the nuclear crisis.

Evidently, Trump pretended to go along with this good advice but when it came to the UN speech, he derisively described Kim as "Rocket Man" on a "suicide mission" and he threatened to "totally destroy" North Korea--which was not in the speech draft but were ad libbed by Trump.

Even Trump's anti-Israel  national security adviser H.R. McMaster argued for several months against attacking Kim Jong Un on a personal level warning it could backfire.

It would be like "War of the World's Egos."

However, asking Trump to play nice and not belittle his enemies and rivals with crude nicknames was too hard to suppress. He felt compelled to go after the chubby chump.

Now some advisors worry that Trump's escalating war of words has pushed the standoff with North Korea into a new and dangerous phase that will negate the hard work of sanctions on their economy.

But at least Trump feels satisfied he 'out punked' Kim in spite of the North Korean leader's CIA psychological profile that says he has a massive ego and reacts harshly and often lethally to insults and perceived slights.

Of course, Kim took Trump's insults personally and was especially pissed that Trump dissed him in front of 200 world leaders and diplomats at the UN.

The insulting went back and forth:

Trump: Hey Kim, if you can't laugh at yourself, I'd be glad to do it for you.

Kim: If I gave you a penny for your thoughts, I'd get change.

Trump: Oh yeah? The last time I saw a face like yours, I fed it a banana.

Kim: Donald Trump, I not offended by what you say, you dotard. I'm just happy you're now stringing words into sentences.

Trump: If I throw a stick, will you go away?

And so on.

This has got to stop before both leaders believe they cannot 'lose face' and respond with fire and fury. In fact, this kind of clashing can undermine Trump's other efforts at the General Assembly meetings.

John Park, a specialist on Northeast Asia at Harvard's Kennedy School, said the back and forth insults have created a "new reality" and probably shut off any chance of starting new talks to curb NoKo's nuclear arms program.

"If the belief centers around sanctions being the last hope to averting war and getting North Korea back to the negotiating table, it's too late," Park said.

Former President Obama warmed Trump before his inauguration that North Korea would be his most pressing international concern. But Trump realizing Obama was the idiot who told Romney that Russia was no big deal, probably didn't give the socialist much credence, but he was 'amazed' how close Kim was to developing an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) that could deliver a nuclear warhead to U.S. soil.

However, when he first entered the White House, Trump rarely derided Kim and in May, he said he'd be "honored" to meet Kim under the right circumstances.

He also said he'd built a wall and Mexico will pay for it.

He also said he'd end DACA.


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