CNN Host: ‘King Me’ Trump Making Putin, Kim ‘Happiest People in the World’

Nicholas Fondacaro | June 10, 2018
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After rustling the feathers of foreign elitists at the G7 summit in Canada over the weekend, President Trump hopped on Air Force One and shot over to Singapore for Monday’s historic meeting with North Korea’s Kim Jong-un. Of course, the liberal media was foaming at the mouth over Trump’s ability to push back against allies and the thought of something getting done with North Korea. The host of CNN’s Inside Politics, John King eagerly joined that bandwagon on Sunday and even said Trump was making Putin happy.

Towards the beginning of the show, King seemed flummoxed by the weekend’s whirlwind of news as he began his laundry list on complaints. Clearly disgruntled by the President’s actions at the G7, he suggested that maybe the meeting should be called “G6 versus one.” It wasn’t that original of a joke since a version of that (G6+1) was floating around on social media.

A short time later, King turned to New York Times national correspondent Jonathan Martin who tried to slam Republicans as hypocrites for claiming Obama was hurting our stature abroad when he was president. “Canada, our best friend next door, gets the cold shoulder while the President jets off to sit down with no pre-conditions with Kim,” he whined.

The happiest people in the world today are Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un … And traditional U.S. allies are upset,” King added, to Martin’s agreement.

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