Donald Trump, a now-disgraced and scandal-ridden former United States president and 2024 Republican candidate, was known during his White House term for making nice with some of the world’s most not-nice leaders.
Russia’s horrifying dictator Vladimir Putin — who Trump is frankly borderline obsessed with — is the first to jump to mind for most people when the topic of Donald’s unsettling relationships is brought up. However, Putin isn’t the only deeply disturbing relationship that Trump fostered and nurtured during his time as the elected leader of The West. In fact, in the opinion of many Americans, there’s one that’s even worse.
Now-former President Trump harbored a particularly unsettling relationship with a notoriously cruel dictator, with whom he bragged about exchanging “beautiful letters.” But now, Donald’s true thoughts on that same dictator are coming to light in a newly revealed, bombshell, and expletive-ridden exchange that’s being publicly reported for the very first time.
Gordon Sondland, the former diplomat who served as Trump’s ambassador to the European Union, opened up about asking then-President Trump a very blunt and clear-cut question about North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, according to explosive new reporting from Foreign Policy.
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“OK, Mr. President, cut the bulls—,” Sondland recalled saying to Donald Trump. “What do you think of Kim?”
According to Sondland, Trump immediately answered, “That f—er would knife me in the stomach if he had the chance.”
Sondland, who served under Donald Trump as the E.U. ambassador from 2018 to 2020, gained notoriety among Americans for his congressional testimony in Donald’s first impeachment inquiry connected to credible allegations that Trump attempted to bully and extort Ukraine into giving him dirt on Joe Biden as the 2020 presidential election closed in.
The former E.U. ambassador has remained in the limelight since via his raw, unfiltered opinions on the scandal-plagued ex-president, who he has described as “kind of a d–k” and a man who is deeply addicted to feeding his own ego, according to the report.
Sondland’s bombshell revelation about Donald’s private thoughts concerning Kim Jong Un certainly stands in stark contrast to the now-former president’s public admiration of the North Korean tyrant.
In a 2018 speech in West Virginia, Trump heaped his praises on Jong Un, to an almost unsettlingly romantic and intimate level when he said, “He wrote me beautiful letters… We fell in love.”
Years later, Foreign Policy would report on those 27 letters, describing them as full of “tactical feints, unctuous flattery, and psychological ploys.”
While the obsession Trump has displayed with Jong Un is disturbing enough in its own right, it’s certainly worth noting that this bizarre admiration and private thoughts are directed toward a heinous dictator who stands accused of 10 of the 11 crimes against humanity on a horrifyingly mass scale.
In 2022, the International Bar Association’s War Crimes Committee released a report raising alarms over “murder, extermination, enslavement, forcible transfer, imprisonment, torture, sexual violence, persecution, enforced disappearances, apartheid, and other inhumane acts.”
You can read Foreign Policy’s full report containing Sondland’s bombshell revelations here.
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