WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump on Friday said he needed other people would "sit up at attention" for him like North Koreans do for his or her leader Kim Jong Un, a shaggy dog story that sparked quick outrage on social media and cable information.
It was the newest instance of a Trump remark about strongmen leaders - delivered in a deadpan taste - to fall flat and gas perceptions among his critics that the president admires autocrats.
Trump was requested all the way through a Fox News Channel interview outdoor the West Wing if he would invite Kim to the White House. The two met previous this week to begin to speak about Pyongyang's nuclear program, a summit marked by means of what Trump said was pleasant chemistry between them.
Trump indicated a White House visit by means of Kim was imaginable: "Hey he's the head of a country," Trump said.
"He speaks and his people sit up at attention. I want my people to do the same," Trump said, pointing to the West Wing.
Kim is suspected of ordering the assassination of his half-brother in February and the execution of his uncle in 2013. UN investigations have also reported human rights violations, the usage of political jail camps and the fashionable use of hunger as a device to put in force political loyalty.
Trump was later requested by means of reporters what he supposed by means of the remark. "I'm kidding. You don't understand sarcasm," Trump said.
The shaggy dog story was reminiscent of one he made at a non-public dinner with donors in March, when he noted that Chinese President Xi Jinping not confronted term limits.
"I said, 'President for life. That sounds good. Maybe we are going to have to try it,'" he later said, recounting the outrage that followed.
"But I'm joking," he said, complaining concerning the reaction. "I'm joking about being president for life."
At a rally in February, he said Democrats in Congress have been treasonous because they didn't clap at his State of the Union speech.
White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders later said he did not mean it: "The president was clearly joking with his comments," she said.
Trump's arguable quips draw hearth from the quick-to-tweet media because they feed into a cool animated film created by means of his warring parties, said Chris Barron, a pro-Trump Republican strategist.
"They believe that Trump is somehow this autocratic despot and they're waiting for any words that fill in that narrative," Barron said in an interview.
"If Trump says something and it can be read two ways, immediately the benefit of the doubt is against Trump," he said.
But David Litt, a speechwriter to former President Barack Obama, said blaming the listener for now not getting the shaggy dog story is a method to keep away from duty for going too a ways.
There are some subjects that presidents will have to just now not shaggy dog story about publicly lest they make allies fearful or embolden adversaries, Litt informed Reuters.
"Maybe Donald Trump is the kind of dry, deadpan humorist who does great material about how terrific dictators are - but if that's the case, he should wait until he retires as president to start breaking out that particular part of his act," Litt said.
It was the newest instance of a Trump remark about strongmen leaders - delivered in a deadpan taste - to fall flat and gas perceptions among his critics that the president admires autocrats.
Trump was requested all the way through a Fox News Channel interview outdoor the West Wing if he would invite Kim to the White House. The two met previous this week to begin to speak about Pyongyang's nuclear program, a summit marked by means of what Trump said was pleasant chemistry between them.
Trump indicated a White House visit by means of Kim was imaginable: "Hey he's the head of a country," Trump said.
"He speaks and his people sit up at attention. I want my people to do the same," Trump said, pointing to the West Wing.
Kim is suspected of ordering the assassination of his half-brother in February and the execution of his uncle in 2013. UN investigations have also reported human rights violations, the usage of political jail camps and the fashionable use of hunger as a device to put in force political loyalty.
Trump was later requested by means of reporters what he supposed by means of the remark. "I'm kidding. You don't understand sarcasm," Trump said.
The shaggy dog story was reminiscent of one he made at a non-public dinner with donors in March, when he noted that Chinese President Xi Jinping not confronted term limits.
"I said, 'President for life. That sounds good. Maybe we are going to have to try it,'" he later said, recounting the outrage that followed.
"But I'm joking," he said, complaining concerning the reaction. "I'm joking about being president for life."
At a rally in February, he said Democrats in Congress have been treasonous because they didn't clap at his State of the Union speech.
White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders later said he did not mean it: "The president was clearly joking with his comments," she said.
Trump's arguable quips draw hearth from the quick-to-tweet media because they feed into a cool animated film created by means of his warring parties, said Chris Barron, a pro-Trump Republican strategist.
"They believe that Trump is somehow this autocratic despot and they're waiting for any words that fill in that narrative," Barron said in an interview.
"If Trump says something and it can be read two ways, immediately the benefit of the doubt is against Trump," he said.
But David Litt, a speechwriter to former President Barack Obama, said blaming the listener for now not getting the shaggy dog story is a method to keep away from duty for going too a ways.
There are some subjects that presidents will have to just now not shaggy dog story about publicly lest they make allies fearful or embolden adversaries, Litt informed Reuters.
"Maybe Donald Trump is the kind of dry, deadpan humorist who does great material about how terrific dictators are - but if that's the case, he should wait until he retires as president to start breaking out that particular part of his act," Litt said.
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