North Korea has increased nuclear production

Trump said N. Korea wasn’t a nuclear threat anymore. Was he stupid or just a liar (or both)?

NBC News EXCLUSIVE: North Korea has increased nuclear production at secret sites, say officials https://t.co/DUk029DSyo

— Jesse Rodriguez (@JesseRodriguez) June 29, 2018

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo tells US lawmakers that North Korea remains a nuclear threat, but defends President Trump for tweeting earlier this month, "There is no longer a Nuclear Threat from North Korea" https://t.co/Vj58PuQJ2m pic.twitter.com/lLdUIFUY8b

— CNN (@CNN) June 27, 2018

At best, Trump got played by a dictator making the same empty promises.

At worst, Trump is looking away as he hopes to destroy the Western alliance and align with Russia, China, NK, etc.

Either way, he's frighteningly incompetent. #Resist https://t.co/lWcCJLsB3O via @NBCNews

— Ryan Gillespie (@AStableJeenyus) June 29, 2018

The Trump administration promised Congress a window into, and even say in, the North Korea nuclear talks. So far, lawmakers have gotten virtually nothing, reports @desiderioDC https://t.co/mCWxpJZvqn

— Sam Stein (@samstein) June 27, 2018

Trump breaks nuclear deal with country where it was working; then cuts nuclear deal with another country that doesn’t work. https://t.co/dnco88ovyt

— Richard Yeselson (@yeselson) June 30, 2018

The @washingtonpost confirms our @NBCInvestigates reporting that US intelligence shows North Korea trying to deceive the US about its nuclear program. https://t.co/dvj1hazFxk

— Ken Dilanian (@KenDilanianNBC) July 1, 2018

This suggests 12 officials were worried the White House would bury the intelligence https://t.co/Ms1FiE836Q

— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) June 30, 2018

Who knew negotiating nuclear weapons with a cruel, paranoid, lying authoritarian could be so complicated? https://t.co/1d2hWEP4ir

— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) July 1, 2018

Trump uses evidence that North Korea is cheating not as leverage for bargaining with Kim Jong Un, but instead as leverage for attacks against the US news media. https://t.co/JDzIHg9cve

— Matt Viser (@mviser) July 3, 2018

UN migration agency votes down Trump nominee who made anti-Muslim tweets

Another Trump bigot

BREAKING: Member states reject candidacy of U.S. evangelical to lead UN migration agency, in major snub to Trump administration.

— The Associated Press (@AP) June 29, 2018

This is the only the second time since the organization's founding 67 years that an American won't lead the International Organization for Migration. It's an absolutely huge rejection for the Trump administration. https://t.co/8QTZY18wjQ

— andrew kaczynski🤔 (@KFILE) June 29, 2018

UN migration agency rejects Ken Isaacs, Trump's nominee to lead the group. CNN's KFile previously reported on Isaacs' sharing of anti-Muslim tweets https://t.co/JcTDKQyvEa pic.twitter.com/3EyFFsU3n6

— CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) June 29, 2018

The UN migration agency chose a new leader. Trump’s pick was forced to withdraw. https://t.co/TCwV6rkpVm

— The New York Times (@nytimes) June 29, 2018

Huge defeat for the United States. An American has led @UNmigration for 59 yrs of its 67 yr history. This isn’t just about bad tweets. Our human rights abuses at home & habit of quitting (rather than fighting for what we want) have gutted our leadership internationally https://t.co/cst0XoFaOg

— Samantha Power (@SamanthaJPower) June 29, 2018

.@jessbrandt: UN migration body’s rejection of Trump nominee is a risky move that causes fear Trump could retaliate by slashing funding. https://t.co/P1MCK2Ods7

— Axios (@axios) June 30, 2018

Trump is interested in withdrawing US troops from Germany

Putin will like this.

Trump was taken aback to learn there were 35,000 U.S. troops in Germany and expressed interest to aides in removing them, @John_Hudson @PaulSonne @karendeyoung1 & @jdawsey1 report https://t.co/f13Y4tmf2Z

— Philip Rucker (@PhilipRucker) June 29, 2018

Trump told G7 leaders that NATO is as bad as NAFTA

Trump continues to do Putin’s bidding. Putin should be thrilled by Trump’s work at destroying American alliances that would help defend us against Russia.

SCOOP: In one extraordinary riff during his meeting with the G7 heads of state earlier this month in Quebec, Trump told the other leaders: "NATO IS AS BAD AS NAFTA." A source read to Axios from notes transcribed from the private meeting…. https://t.co/8JiNTvnZ1o

— Jonathan Swan (@jonathanvswan) June 28, 2018

WARNING: The circle of Treason is nearing completion. Breaking NATO is exactly where Trump is going. #PutinsPuppet #SaveDemocracy @plot2destroy https://t.co/QnCWgi31Vw

— Malcolm Nance (@MalcolmNance) June 27, 2018

Biden on European reaction to Trump

Putin should be thrilled by Trump’s behavior.

In a private meeting, Swedish PM Stefan Lofven explained to Trump Sweden is not a member of NATO, but sometimes partners with the alliance. Trump responded that the U.S. should consider the same approach. https://t.co/9dw6G6Lqpg

— Josh Rogin (@joshrogin) June 26, 2018

Why would Trump meet with Putin?

Is it to discuss how to rig the 2018 US elections? Trump is doing nothing to prevent Putin from meddling in the 2018 elections. I wish he treated our allies as well as he treated our enemies.

Sounds like he's rewarding Putin for having attacked the US election for the benefit of Trump. https://t.co/Zef9ppnyKe

— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) June 27, 2018

Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump have set a place and time to meet. https://t.co/xbVDuFPV40

— CNBC (@CNBC) June 27, 2018

The Trump administration has again allowed Russia to make the first public statements about US-Russia relations (this time a Trump-Putin date night in Helsinki) its just like you would expect a deferential junior partner/supplicant to act.

— Greg Sarafan, Esq (@GSarafan) June 27, 2018

Putin attacks the United States 2016 elections and now Trump rewards him with a summit. If Trump were President on 9/11 does that mean he would held a summit with Bin laden just a year and half after the terror attack?

— (((DeanObeidallah))) (@DeanObeidallah) June 27, 2018

This article notes: “Russia experts stress there is no comparison between Trump’s policies and Putin’s most draconian actions. But they worry Trump’s affinity for the Russian leader and their similar set of instincts could lead the U.S. president to make concessions at the summit on issues such as arms control, the NATO military alliance loathed by Putin and Russian activities in Ukraine, which have been condemned by the international community.”

Trump called the media “almost treasonous”

This sounds like a dictator to me. I don’t think much of the “deal”. It doesn’t end the nuclear threat like Trump claims. It was good that he met with Kim – that’s a start.

In an interview by Mike Huckabee, Sarah Huckabee Sanders’s dad, Trump just denounced the failure of media to depict his “deal” with NK as a great triumph as “almost treasonous.” That leaves “enemy of the people” a distant second in the fascist anti-1st Amendment sweepstakes.

— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) June 24, 2018

What would you say if you saw it in another country? https://t.co/84YwihANVy

— Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan) June 24, 2018

Remember when he said not clapping for him was treasonous.

Putin suggested stopping US military exercises in South Korea

Trump listens to Putin.

“Trump had long pondered the prospect of halting such exercises after the suggestion was first made to him last summer by Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to U.S. officials” https://t.co/nmRHloa49n

— Jonathan Lemire (@JonLemire) June 19, 2018

and there’s this

Trump's statement that U.S. military exercises in South Korea were “provocative” and “inappropriate” could have come straight from the Chinese propaganda machine. https://t.co/igZ4YLwFqS

— Foreign Affairs (@ForeignAffairs) June 19, 2018

Trump keeps lying about crime in Germany

Liar!

Editor at @DerSPIEGEL, one of Europe's most-read newsmags: https://t.co/PQrG1zYqTv

— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) June 19, 2018

President Trump suggests that Germany is lying about its crime rate: "They don't like reporting that kind of crime so they put it down as different kind of crime" https://t.co/kF9BWoCGQi https://t.co/f7xPCnOjIx

— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) June 19, 2018

Trump claims Germany’s crime rate went up by 10 percent. It went down by 10 percent. https://t.co/f7dKJM5vYA

— Vox (@voxdotcom) June 19, 2018

Crime statistics for 2017 showed the lowest level of crime in Germany in 25 years. A fact check of Trump's tweets: https://t.co/Xd8nneQaGw

— The New York Times (@nytimes) June 19, 2018

Crime in Germany is up 10% plus (officials do not want to report these crimes) since migrants were accepted. Others countries are even worse. Be smart America!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 19, 2018