the world that have real problems. the washington post noted after the speech just to be clear the president of the united states threatened to wipe a country of 25 million people off the map. what do you make of that in. well it sounds like he s talking nuclear weapons. of course he is. you ve never heard an american president talk as loosely about the use of our nuclear forces as has donald trump. why is he doing it? why is he doing it? i think it s a function of his unpreparedness of the president of the united states. never had a president bluster about the use of nuclear weapons. at the end of the second world war, chris, douglas macarthur in his surrender speech he talks about that we no longer have the option of war of the type that was just thought because of the scientific advancements of the use of nuclear weaponry. we would have to come up with better institutions than the ones we ve had before. it s remarkable to see a
trump is a showman. he says i m going to have to give away a daca. once you get a good name, a good brand, you re okay. i m going to have to make a deal on the debt ceiling. i m going to have to leave the iranian deal the way it is. what i m going to do is a lot of hillary clinton golf ball because of her head, knock her down, do all of this stuff to appeal to the guys on the bar stools right now and they ll love it so i can get away with the other stuff. i think that s three-quarters right. and the reason i say three-quarters, i still think there are aspects of donald trump where he is going to push that envelope and try to get his way. this speech is a good example of that. you could tell the trumpisms, calling out north korea and kim jong-un as a rocketman, putting his slangy twist on it to let the folks in the room know yeah, i can do the diplomatic thing
but i don t really want to. who is that for? two people. i think it s the base and i think it s for trump. i think it s for his own self satisfaction that he cannot be controlled even no moments like this that those sides of him show through. i think it s interesting because how do you he s talking to the base but how do you talk to the american people. i mean not the american people but do the world leaders. but even if president trump had come out there and not had the trumpisms in the speech, i wonder how much of an impact it would have when he s on twitter the next day hitting golf balls at hillary clinton. i wonder as a world leader when you re looking at president trump, do you go, you know what, the scripted side of president trump, is that really what we pay attention toe? i was looking at boris johnson today. he s the sane one at the table. that was weird. i pay attention to both sides. i pay attention to teleprompter trump and i pay attention to
tick. this is as closed a society on earth. everybody in the world understands america s nuclear deterrent and the awesome power of this nation which is why the president of the united states can walk softly. he doesn t have to bluster in the manner of kim jong-un. history teaches us that leaders believe that they control events. but history teaches that events control leaders. and when the events start to control the leaders, it s when the miscalculations begin. is he talking to the world or is he talking to his base? i think that was a domestic political speech and i think he s confused about the duty. it s not a speech that if you re the british prime minister, the german chancellor, you ve had occasion to meet donald trump, taken his measure and i don t think that speech today made any of them fall out of nair chairs. there are a lot of country in
i think it went very well. i said what i had to say and i think the united nations has great potential. if they get there it will be something that will be very very special. but i think the united nations has great great potential. that was his review of himself. that s the president saying how grow great he was. ahead of the speech the associated press is reporting that the president s top cabinet members felt like they had to give the president a crash course in what they call american power 101. according to the ap back in july trump s national security team had become alarmed by this president s frequent questioning of the robust american presence in the world. the sessions laid out the case using charts and maps the way the businessman turned politician would like it. anyway, did the home work pay off or did the president break