North Korea’s Kim Jong Un crows over ‚Fire and Fury‘ book on Trump<\/b>
\nPresident Donald Trump \u2019s tweeted threat last fall that North Korea would be met with \u2018fire and fury\u2019 became the title of a new book. The book became a blockbuster. And now the man whom Trump threatened, North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un, is using Michael Wolff\u2019s bestseller to strike back.
The latest plot twist in what has been an epic war of words between Trump and Kim Jong Un came Thursday in the pages of North Korea\u2019s main newspaper, which cited the popularity of Wolff’s book, „Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House,“ as evidence of \u201crapidly surging anti-Trump sentiments in the international community,\u201d reports the Associated Press.
\u201cThe anti-Trump book is sweeping all over the world so Trump is being massively humiliated worldwide,\u201d crowed Kim\u2019s paper, optimistically adding that strong sales of the book \u201cforetells Trump\u2019s political demise.\u201d
While Kim has been on the receiving end of Trump\u2019s most colorful intercontinental insults, which have ranged from from \u2018little rocket man\u2019 to ’sick puppy,\u2019 the Islamic Republic of Iran, a \u2018murderous regime\u2019 according to the president, is a close second.
Apparently they\u2019ve been reading Wolff\u2019s work in Tehran too.
On Wednesday the Islamic Republic News Agency, Iran\u2019s state media, drew on Wolff\u2019s work to make the case that Trump is unbalanced, and that the world should resist any U. S. effort to tear up the nuclear deal .
\u201cThe promises and attempts made by the U. S. president in the first year of his presidency have been increasingly encouraging the idea that he has some sort of mental problem,\u201d said the article. \u201cTrump’s pledge to rip up the July 2015 Iran nuclear deal is an example.\u201d
To the White House, books like „Fire and Fury,“ which press secretary Sarah Sanders called trash and \u201cfull of lies,\u201d are damaging not only to the president but also to America\u2019s national interests.
No wonder then that Trump called for changes to U. S. libel laws.
\u201cIf somebody says something that’s totally false and knowingly false, that the person that has been abused, defamed, libeled will have meaningful recourse,\u201d Trump said Thursday. \u201cOur current libel laws are a sham and a disgrace, and do not represent American values or American fairness, so we’re going to take a strong look at that. We want fairness.\u201d
And no surprise that his chief of staff, John Kelly, is cracking down on staff’s use of private cell phones inside the White House in an effort to plug leaks that become books that become ammunition for America\u2019s adversaries.<\/p>\n