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Libyan model = the leader murdered by US allies and left in a ditch.

Can't imagine why that nice Mr Kim would find that a bit offside. Seems to be diplomat-talk for '2nd Amendment Solution'.

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I want to see a 'George III' model solution to the Trump Presidency.

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Well, he should be able to cope:

“I never get too attached to one deal or one approach,” Trump writes. “For starters, I keep a lot of balls in the air, because most deals fall out, no matter how promising they seem at first. In addition, once I’ve made a deal, I always come up with at least a half dozen approaches to making it work, because anything can happen, even to the best-laid plans.”

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this

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Might have been too early with the press announcement? Naw..

“I play to people’s fantasies,” he writes. “People may not always think big themselves, but they can still get very excited by those who do. That’s why a little hyperbole never hurts. People want to believe that something is the biggest and the greatest and the most spectacular.”

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yes.

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blue turtles was our totally hungover new year's insane actor party clean up having sex every couple hours song.

usually, we ended with chinese.

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yes thank you. too many analyses are all about trump and a temper tantrum.

this was bolton making sure trump didn't meet with kim and give away the store.

at least that's what i think.

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"You can't fire me, because I QUIT~!~!!"

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Also: too cool for autocorrect.

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Complete sentences. O.M.F.G.

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When the South China Morning Post is just not good enough for Donny's, uhh, posterior.

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Gfy Kim.

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You can tell when he is reading a speech from a teleprompter because the sentences are complete, grammatically correct and make sense.

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Like one of those Coastal Elites, wait a minute, Hawaii is ALL coastline, amirite? Coastal Elitist Eleventy!

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Yeah, I saw that, and thought WTF, ASS is a state now?

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