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Trump Says He Gave Real Estate Advice to Kim Jong-Un: ‘You Could Have the Most Beautiful Condos’ and ‘Become Rich as Hell’

https://lemmy.world/post/4734947

Trump Says He Gave Real Estate Advice to Kim Jong-Un: ‘You Could Have the Most Beautiful Condos’ and ‘Become Rich as Hell’ - Lemmy.world

> I went over there, you remember that? It was a very historic moment. Went over there and I said to Kim Jong-Un, you know being a real estate guy it’s just sort of natural, I said, “You have the most beautiful shoreline. Think of it, you’re between China, Russia, and South Korea. Look at the beautiful shore, you could have the most beautiful condos that you’ve ever seen and become rich as hell. You don’t have to live like you’re living. … > But he’s a tough guy, he’s a smart guy, and he just loves collecting nuclear weapons. That’s what he does. He collects nuclear weapons and we got along incredibly well. If anyone can explain what the fuck he’s talking about, they’re smarter than me. Or maybe stupider?

Sep 9, 2023 at 1:53pmWeb
Show threadchulo_sinhatcheSep 9, 2023

Republicans decimated the public school funding for decades so that they could have a population full of rubes who think this guy was a genius. That’s not counting the smart ones who are just trying to buy there way into policy-making that favors whatever scheme they pull in their respective industry.

Otherwise I don’t see how any person with half a brain could hear this guy speak and say yeah, this guy should run things.

Show threadSaprophyteSep 9, 2023

Donald Trump is a poor man’s idea of a rich man, a weak man’s idea of a strong man, a stupid man’s idea of a smart man, and a loser’s idea of a playboy.

He is a caricatute and nothing more.

Show threadSpecific_SkunkSep 9, 2023
That’s probably the most apt description I’ve heard yet.
Show threadnillocSep 9, 2023
It’s been floating around since at least 2016. But that doesn’t make it any less apt.
Show threaduphillbothwaysSep 9, 2023

Fuck. That needs to be a bumper sticker.

Probably would end up with dumbasses putting rocks through your windows every other day, but it might just be worth it.

Show threadhoodatninjaSep 9, 2023
He’s borrowing from someone else lol
Show threadSaprophyteSep 9, 2023
twitter.com/MEPFuller/status/1125904178679832576
Matt Fuller on X

I’ve seen this quote attributed to a bunch of different people in different forms — just know it’s not mine — but, in light of the NYT story, it’s worth re-upping: "Trump is a poor man's idea of a rich man, a dumb man's idea of a smart man, and a weak man's idea of a strongman."

X (formerly Twitter)
Show threadmriguySep 9, 2023
John Mulaney, I think.
Show threadYurkshireLadSep 9, 2023

Damn that’s good!

You know the world is doomed when trump is jealous of a dictator, because he’s a dictator and he can dictate. That’s the power trump wants.

Show threadPRUSSIA_x86Sep 10, 2023
Show threaddoublejay1999Sep 9, 2023

Also one of the reasons a degree will cost you 100 grand.

Nobody in power is served by an informed and educated electorate, so you get loaded up with debt before you even start work. This makes sure you don’t get any funny ideas about changing the world for the better - because you gotta service the debt before you make any other plans.

Show threadcheese_greaterSep 9, 2023
The question is: how did all of this change? People reminisce about when it was like $700 and you could easily finance that with an average summer job. When and why did it take such an insane turn?
Show threadgregorumSep 9, 2023
Like all the ills in today’s society, there’s no easy answer. And the reason for that is so that there can be no easy fix. 
Show threadSanctusSep 9, 2023
When government subsidies allowed greedy universities to jack up their tuition. If we wanted accessibility we would have been first to actually subsidize it through taxation instead of whatever the fuck is going on right now. Like idk who thought “I can borrow it all now and pay it back with interest later? Lets make this the norm”.
Show threadmatchphoenixSep 9, 2023

“You have the most beautiful shoreline. Think of it, you’re between China, Russia, and South Korea. Look at the beautiful shore…

Because when I think “beautiful shoreline”, my brain immediately goes to Vladivostok and Dalian.

But topping the stupidity is alarming trend of constantly fawning over dictators and autocrats. This dolt never misses a chance to talk about how close he is with the worst people on earth.

Show threadBlinkerFluidSep 9, 2023

I mean, I get it. He’s trying to sell capitalism to a dictator from the perspective of and you still get to be a dictator!

He could just be the pissed little weapons hoarder he is, or maybe introduce some tourism and try to change the worldwide opinion of North Korea.

Now, I don’t personally think he can do both and the international community just be cool with flying tourists to NK. I didn’t say it was a good idea.

Show threaddudinaxSep 9, 2023
The impression is that Trump has a vague sense nuclear weapons are important but he isn’t sure why.
Show threadHWK_290Sep 9, 2023
Gotta catch em all!
Show threadspezSep 9, 2023
what the actual fuck is this?
Show threadFlying SquidSep 9, 2023
Good question.
Show threadkescusaySep 9, 2023
Just another day of the news paying far too much attention to the ravings of a demented orange clown.
Show threadVentraSqwalSep 9, 2023
I mean, the man was elected President and could be elected again. Even if we don’t pay attention, for some dumb reason millions of other people are.
Show threadFuglyDuckSep 9, 2023
You know…. I kinda hope Kim took his advice, there. I think the world would be a lot better if he started collecting condos instead of nukes, for one, and for two, I can’t imagine trump giving good advice…
Show threadremoteloveSep 9, 2023

Kim had a thing for building massive tourism areas, actually. A bit before COVID, he had wild dreams of building the tourism industry in North Korea.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masikryong_Ski_Resort

www.cnn.com/travel/article/…/index.html

This summarizes everything in a more recent state: www.38north.org/…/north-koreas-tourism-industry-a…

NK doesn’t talk about this anymore: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryugyong_Hotel

Masikryong Ski Resort - Wikipedia

Show threadbdonvrSep 9, 2023
Hm, coincidentally around the time the US made it illegal for their ‘free’ citizens to go to the DPRK.
Show threadremoteloveSep 9, 2023
Well, like every other industry in North Korea, tourist money would go straight into Kim’s pockets and exit as a ballistic missile.
Show threadCypherSep 11, 2023

What a coincidence that travel ban occurred right around the time Otto Warmbier was released

reuters.com/…/us-usa-northkorea-detainee-idUSKBN1…

U.S. student freed from North Korea has severe brain injury

An American university student who was returned to the United States this week after being held in North Korea for 17 months has a severe brain injury and is in a state of "unresponsive wakefulness," doctors said on Thursday.

Reuters
Show threadVentraSqwalSep 9, 2023
Damn, imagine some alternative universe where Covid didn’t happen, the tourist initiative went forward full force, and they opened up and became more soft on their foreign policy as a result.
Show threadremoteloveSep 9, 2023

I could be mistaken, but I believe their target was rich Chinese and Russian tourists.

Still though, it would be nice to see NK open up to the world. If they opened up and also allowed their population to become acclimated to the rest of the world, good things could happen. Even though their government has committed extreme crimes against humanity, it wouldn’t be talked about much if the country made a drastic shift.

Unfortunately, it’s in China’s best interest to also keep NK as a hermit kingdom to function as a land barrier between the Sea of Japan and also South Korea.

Show threadGrant_MSep 9, 2023
Kim is responsible for thousands upon thousands of crimes against humanity. He’d be forced to face consequences for that if N. Korea ‘opened up’
Show threadVentraSqwalSep 10, 2023
So has Russia even before this war, so has Saudi Arabia, so has Qatar, so has Germany, so has the US, so has lots of countries. I thought we learned after Iraq that just because a leader is insane that doesn’t mean we should invade and war against them. The best way to change a populace is by having them integrate with the world, get educated and modernized.
Show threadGrant_MSep 10, 2023
You’d need to convince Kim to accept his punishment for the greater good.
Show threadgregorumSep 9, 2023
I’m not actually convinced that Kim is collecting nukes. I think that the North Koreans make just enough fissile material in order to “test” one as a threat. Each time they do, they blow up the only nuke they actually have, and the rest of the world seems to believe they have more, but it’s all just theater.
Show threadGrant_MSep 9, 2023
Never would happen. If there were any kind of outside influence allowed within, and the citizens could see they’ve been lied to about everything for decades, the Kim regime would be slaughtered by rebellion.
Show threadJordan LundSep 9, 2023
Trump can’t comprehend how owning a country is more valuable than owning some condo blocks and looked like an idiot in front of the ruler of North Korea.
Show threadFlying SquidSep 9, 2023
Telling someone who lives in the lap of luxury that they could become rich as hell is a strange move.
Show threadJordan LundSep 9, 2023

Not just living in the lap of luxury, but surrounded by an entire population that see his entire family as almost some sort of Godhead.

It’s what Trump envisions for himself here, but the MAGA idiots are only 30% instead of 98%.

Show threadGandalf1701DSep 9, 2023
Not a loving this Arrested Development clone tbh, waiting for it to be canceled
Show threadPrincessLeiasCatSep 9, 2023
This isn’t The Onion? I want to undo the fact that I now know this happened.
Show threadOrbituarySep 9, 2023
The Onion found this too incredible.
Show threaderan_moradSep 9, 2023
This is the cunt that the republican traitor filth want to install as dictator. Go on and marinate on that.
Show threadagent_flounderSep 9, 2023
What do you think I’ve been doing for the last eight years?
Show threadkrakenxSep 9, 2023
It sounds like Trump was trying to convince Kim Jong-Un to get rid of his nuclear weapons in return for helping him get rich by developing condos on the coast. It’s honestly not a bad angle to try to get them to disarm.
Show threadwtvrSep 9, 2023
If the Kim’s could’ve been bought out it would’ve happened a longass time ago. It’s a bad angle because it shows the man is dumb af thinking it would actually work lol
Show threadTumnusSep 9, 2023
That’s some Olympic gold medalist level mind gymnastics right there.
Show threadmetallic_substanceSep 9, 2023
Holy shit, OP posts so much. Like, hundreds of comments and posts a week. What the fuck?
Show threadballs_expertSep 9, 2023

I’m glad

It’s kinda needed on here

Show threadDelusionalSep 9, 2023
Oh hey look another time where trump opens his mouth and spews out the dumbest shit imaginable. He actually brags about this? What a fucking moron. If he had no money, he would’ve been taking the short bus to school.
Show threadspaghettiwesternSep 9, 2023
I picture him selling used cars in a bad neighborhood with a cheap suit and threadbare comb-over.
Show threadmomtheregoesthatmanSep 9, 2023
You’re a poet. I can see your description and it’s spot on.
Show threadFunderpants Sep 10, 2023
I picture him on trial for murdering and then burning a local woman’s in his backyard burn barrel. Well that’s where he’d be if he wasn’t born into money.
Show threadGrant_MSep 9, 2023
It’s no secret that putler/trump were trying to convince Kim into converting N Korea into a money laundering organized crime haven for the rich and infamous.
Show threadspiderSep 9, 2023
Whatever. Trump is real-life Biff from Back to the Future.
Show threadVaginal_blood_fartSep 10, 2023
Quite literally. nme.com/…/back-to-the-future-writer-reveals-biff-….
'Back To The Future' writer reveals Biff Tannen was inspired by Donald Trump

'Back to the Future' writer Bob Gale has revealed that the character Biff Tannen was inspired by President Donald Trump. 

NME
Show threadspiderSep 10, 2023
That writer was a prophet, too; Trump’s hair wasn’t even orange back then.
Show threadSanctusSep 9, 2023
His people see him as a god-king and this dude is telling him he’ll be rich off some condos.
Show threadNatakuNoxSep 10, 2023

Does he not know what dictator is?

Kim already owns every house in North Korea

Show threadCopernicanSep 10, 2023

Is this just a click bait report of a 2018 thing?

www.google.com/url?q=https://www.usatoday.com/sto…

Weiterleitungshinweis

Show threadresin85Sep 10, 2023
He’s regurgitating his same dictator crush at his griftcampaign rallies. This was from Friday.
Show threadHonytawkSep 10, 2023
Only Trump would try to give wealth tips to a dictator which already owns everything in their country.