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Robert E Kelly

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Professor of Political Science, Pusan National University - 부산대학교 정치외교학과 교수; BBC Dad; Cleveland native

Busan, Korea

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Robert E Kelly

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11 days

Grateful to be invited by @ChathamHouse to speak on this important topic👇. Here’s a quick summary of my points: 1. Trump’s election will drive a lot of US allies to consider nukes: S Korea, Poland, postwar Ukraine, maybe. Japan. I think this is now well-understood. 1

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PODCAST🎙️| Which country is next to go nuclear? @Robert_E_Kelly , @HannaNotte and @PatriciaMary join @bronwenmaddox to discuss whether we're seeing a resurgence of the threat posed by nuclear weapons. Listen in full:

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Robert E Kelly

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2 months

BBC Dad content Today is the 7th anniversary of the BBC Dad blooper. So here it is again, with some recent family pictures in the thread below. 1

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These are from Marion's birthday party today, and James and I hiking this morning

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Some BBC Dad content since the 6th anniversary of the original video was last Friday. Marion had a singing performance this past weekend, so we got some nice family pictures. Thanks again to all of you who follow me bc of the video. My family and I flattered by your kindness.

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So Bill Barr is on Fox now claiming that mail-in voting will bring fraud. Good grief. What a hack Barr has turned out to be. He just keeps going lower and lower for Trump.

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Merry Christmas. To all the people who follow me because of the video or my children, thank you. We are flattered by your kindness.

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Another hiking picture, and some Christmas 2023 pictures

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This has been re-tweeted 1200 times, so I guess I should say this was only bc I am traveling and had to use a laptop. Once I’m home, it will be the same set-up as always.

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And some more Christmas pictures

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Whoa. This is sliding toward what we have all feared: Kim flatters Trump; no one’s around to warn Trump; T gives something important away, because he doesn’t understand the issues, bc he didn’t prepare and couldn’t care less about the US architecture in Asia. This is a bad idea

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. @JenniferJJacobs says Trump and Kim will first meet 1 on 1 with only translators. Does Bolton or Pompeo think that's a good idea? I don't. @ThisWeekABC

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People keep asking what it’s like to be in South Korea during corona. So no, it’s not World War Z; it’s this. I can’t go to work, and my kids can’t go to school. So we’re playing a lot of Connect 4 at home. /1

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The last few weeks of the Trump Show have been more awful than usual but also inadvertently revelatory @ Trump's coalition.If you've paid attention, you've suspected this stuff for a long time,but bc T says the quiet parts out loud,a lot of GOP masks have definitively dropped: /1

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My post on the midterm. I’ve been a registered Republican my whole life but just voted a straight Dem ticket for the first time ever,including for a candidate I thought inferior to his GOP opponent. Trump is huge threat to US liberalism & constitutionalism

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2 years

Some BBC Dad content

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This a lie. This is just not true. Kim signed nothing binding regarding nukes or missiles. No Kim ever has. And Republicans used to know that the Kims shouldn’t be trusted. But now the GOP’s a cult of personality, right? So if the great leader says it’s true, it must be so... /1

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Trump: "We have to do what we have to do. But he did sign a contract. He did sign an agreement talking about denuclearization."

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Since it's the 4 year anniversary of the BBC Dad video, here are some answers to typical questions and a few new pics: A. You staged the whole thing to get famous! Good grief. Please stop sending me your 'BBC Dad Truther' emails. I can't imagine how one could stage something 1

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Happy 4 year anniversary to the best interview of all time

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This would get Trump fired from almost any serious institution in the country. But yeah, let's elect him president. jfc

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Trump: These lights are so bright in my eyes I can't see people... I can only see the Black ones. I can't see any white ones. That's how far I've come. That's a long way isn't it?

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This is what happens when I sit down at my desk now to try to work. It is basically impossible for me to work now. Be kind to your employees with kids. After two weeks penned up in the house, those kids are gonna be climbing the walls.

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Shannon Bream, on Fox naturally, just said that ‘in this challenging time, Donald Trump is leaning on his spiritual advisors.’ Your daily reminder that it’s all just a huge con

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5 years

Jesus christ. Trump really is mentally ill.

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....My only question is, who is our bigger enemy, Jay Powell or Chairman Xi?

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Robert E Kelly

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come to regret after Trump is gone and no one knows what it stands for besides racism and upper income tax cuts. Aligning with Trump is a faustian bargain, and the bill will come due. But by demolishing useful, deflective GOP myths, Trump is accelerating that reckoning. END

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Trump is NOT a deal-maker. How many more times do we have to say this? In the most important negotiation of his presidency and career - with Kim Jong-Un over N Korean nukes - Trump massively failed He did not prepare. He just flew over and winged it. He literally got off the 1

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"He's fired up about a lot of issues ... leaning into his deal-making status" -- Kristen Welker's commentary here is classic pundit "both sides" whitewashing of Trump's depravity

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lol Because the blow-up mattress I was to lazy to deflate makes the room

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Room Rater

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In honor of the 6th Anniversary of @Robert_E_Kelly ’s iconic @BBC appearance we are awarding the whole family a Room Rater Lifetime Achievement Award.

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@David_Waddell What would that mean, please? Re-broadcasting it on BBC TV, or just here on Twitter? Is this kinda thing that goes 'viral' and gets weird?

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Trump is lying again at Panmunjom. Obama was NOT on the cusp of attacking N Korea. T keeps saying this to create the impression that he’s made progress on NK, and, presumably, bc he loathes Obama. But it was T who ginned up the 2017 war crisis; no POTUS b4 talked like fire & fury

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3. Evangelicals couldn't care less about personal virtue. Here's another Trump 'silver lining': Trump's personal behavior is so appalling - spiteful, mean-spirited, selfish, adulterous - that evangelical support for him auto-demolishes any ethical/virtue argument they make. We /7

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I will be on @BBCWorld in an hour to talk about...whatever - you just wanna know if I am going to leave my office door open or not

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never need to take moralistic arguments from religious conservatives seriously again. They're just another interest group now, with no principled belief in elevating our debased politics. I find this sell-out the most disappointing. There is something noble in the notion that /8

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Some BBC Dad content: Marion had a flute performance the other day. She got very excited. And James, well, he’s good at making trouble

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1. Gun rights advocates now clearly think that routine massacres are an acceptable price to pay for access to long guns. The president's teleprompter speech was so forced & hackneyed, & his desperation to blame anything - video games, mental health, the culture, hate - except /2

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Today is the 5th anniversary of the 'BBC Dad' event and probably the last time I will mark this date here on Twitter My wife and I remain deeply grateful for all the kindness about our kids over the years. Thank you If you follow me on Twitter because 1

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Children interrupt BBC News interview - BBC News

Please subscribe to BBC News here: http://bit.ly/1rbfUogThere was an unexpected distraction for Professor Robert Kelly when he was being interviewed live on ...

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politicians should strive for personal virtue. But evangelicals sold their soul to Trump for judges & access. 4. It's all about the tax-cuts and judges. Trump is woefully unfit for the office. Lots of retired GOP officials, like Boehner and Ryan, pretty clearly see that. But /9

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Thoughts on Moon’s meeting with Trump tomorrow: 1) It increasingly looks like the Moon administration overstated North Korea’s willingness to deal. Moon will probably get an earful over that.

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easy gun access, was so transparent, that no one serious will ever buy that stuff again. That doesn't mean gun control will happen - Fox and empty-state senators will see to that - but at least the 'debate' is over. The insincerity of these arguments is now undeniable. The NRA /3

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& co. now clearly prioritize gun ownership over public safety, and they will say anything to defend a capacious reading of the 2A. 2. A lot of Trump voters are racist. Again, this wasn't too hard to figure out before; the tea party pretty clearly wasn't motivated by limited /4

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GOP's willingness to stand with him anyway has starkly revealed its donor class preferences. 5. Budgetary restraint is for Democratic presidents only. Trump's keynesianism, exploding deficits, & bullying of the Fed for low interest rates to help him get re-elected are now /11

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Just when you think Trump can’t get any worse or bizarre, he does. His idiocy and incompetence is just mind-boggling, as is why anyone would vote for someone this colossally stupid. Jesus christ, people, wake up. This isn’t the Onion; this is American democracy imploding

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President Trump has repeatedly asked aides if they can pursue a purchase of Greenland from Denmark. His interest in Greenland began in part because of its natural resources, like coal and uranium.

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they swallowed all the racism, misogyny, narcissism, norm-busting,& so on just for that juicy 2017 tax cut to their donors. Again,you probably suspected plutocracy before. W's 2001 & 2003 tax cuts were upwardly redistributive too. But Trump is so awful that the Congressional /10

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the Southern strategy. Those days are now over. 'Economic anxiety' is the standard talking point to deflect this. That is impossible to invoke after 'send her back' caused no drop in Trump's approval rating. It is apparent now that Trump wants the GOP to be like theNat'l Front /6

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government. But Trump has ripped the mask off, just as he did with his blatantly fatuous speech on the shootings. Journalists have danced around calling the president racist for 2 years and have hedged for decades on racism as a motivation despite stuff like Willy Horton and /5

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Robert E Kelly

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7 years

I will be on @BBCNewsMedia / @BBCWorld in 10 minutes to talk about the Korean impeachment.

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of it, I hope you've found it a good follow beyond the occasional picture of my kids. Thank you. If you're a 'BBC Dad Truther' who still thinks we staged the whole thing to get famous, we did not. 🤦‍♂️ Here is what the kids look like now. Marion is 9; James is almost 6. 2

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be grateful the president is someone experienced and calm, not the erratic sociopath who said he fell in love with Kim Jong Un and won’t read a briefing book. 4

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The biggest surprise, revelation even, of Afghanistan’s fall is not that the Taliban are bad or that the departure is messy. We knew that already It’s how belligerent, even militaristic, the American and British media are, how totally captured by blob talking points about the 1

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insincere also. Kinda makes you wonder what's left? Trump is woefully unfit & a terrible president, but his inability to lie convincingly is weirdly useful, ideologically at least. Yes, Trump lies and flim-flams all the time, but he when he does, he almost always signals his /13

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so obvious as to be undeniable. Again, you kind of already knew this, but maybe the tea party was serious and Romney and Ryan really did think we were becoming Greece. Well that story is gone now too. Trump deficit spends with such abandon, that this GOP plank is revealed as /12

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I keep saying this about S Korea’s success: there’s none of this. No politicization, freaky right-wing rejection of science, anti-vaxxers/militias/MAGA pundits, ‘patriotic’ store-owners; even the religious communities agreed to lockdown. They’re serious here; this is not serious

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Pastor Paula White-Cain, White House Spiritual Advisor: "I declare divine intervention and supernatural turnaround. You will restore this land."

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insincerity via his body language. He says the right stuff for a moment - at Charlottesville or after the shootings - but in such a fake, reading-from-the-teleprompter manner that you can easily decipher his true beliefs. This inability to mouth appropriate platitudes, to lie /14

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Robert E Kelly

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convincingly, has inadvertently revealed a lot about the GOP coalition and destroyed a lot of its most useful pretenses, e.g., crime, not race, is the concern, or mental health is the culprit of gun violence. This myth-busting is a 'progress' of a sort, which the GOP will /15

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Wow, Trump is just openly lying about his taxes now.

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1 year

As we careen toward a wholly unnecessary financial crisis next month, the media need to hammer away that raw GOP/MAGA/Fox partisanship is creating this. Trump got three (!) clean debt ceiling hikes in four years This is GOP hostage-taking, and that needs to be repeated all month

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4 years

Is this worse than telling people to drink bleach? Probably not, but it’s close.

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Aaron Rupar

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TRUMP: "When you test, you have a case. When you test, you find something is wrong with people. If we didn't do any testing we would have very few cases."

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This 👇 nicely illustrates how often MAGA conspiracies are really just people who don’t understand process in a deep, complex, modern state like the US. Normal bureaucracy becomes the ‘Deep State’ when you don’t really know what’s going on.

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Stephen Richer—MaricopaCountyRecorder (prsnl acct)

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@aubrey_savela @TPAction_ Hi Aubrey! Thanks for reaching out. You changed your voter registration on the last day of voter registration (Feb. 20) from your Chandler address to your new Tempe address. Because early ballots must go out on Feb. 21, your Chandler ballot was already set to go out, and

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Nothing says populism like letting rich people cheat on their taxes

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Kevin McCarthy is excited about blocking the hiring of new IRS agents

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It’s been awhile since my last BBC Dad post, so here are some nice holiday pictures. (Note the fun Grinch pajamas.) Happy New Year.

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He literally doesn’t understand that voting by mail or in-person are both legal options.

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Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

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So in California, the Democrats, who fought like crazy to get all mail in only ballots, and succeeded, have just opened a voting booth in the most Democrat area in the State. They are trying to steal another election. It’s all rigged out there. These votes must not count. SCAM!

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Today’s the sixth anniversary of the BBC Dad video There’s not too much more to add, I think, so I just re-tweeted my brief thread from last year. The pictures included are still pretty accurate to our appearance.Thanks for all the kind sentiments over the years about our family

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Today is the 5th anniversary of the 'BBC Dad' event and probably the last time I will mark this date here on Twitter My wife and I remain deeply grateful for all the kindness about our kids over the years. Thank you If you follow me on Twitter because 1

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I know McFaul & Russia are the huge right now, but this should not slip below the waves: Trump basically just admitted that we are back to Obama's strategic patience on N Korea. So all the threats of last year and sucking-up of this year didn't work, as so many predicted, and /1

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Trump: There’s no time limit for N Korean denuclearization. I.e., the last 5 mos & all that big talk of CVID, a Nobel, this time is different, nuclear threat is over, etc was just another Trump snow-job. Good grief.Why do we even listen to this guy anymore

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All this does is make the job of serious people working on NK even harder. It would be best if Trump just stayed away from Korea altogether. END

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It’s been awhile since we’ve done some BBC content, so here is Marion after doing her math homework correctly and James in his Hawaiian outfit for the beach with his sandals on backwards

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4) It is an open secret in Korea that this was just flattering Trump to prevent him from starting a war. No one actually believes it. My students & colleagues laugh at the suggestion. No one thought the western media wd actually start seriously debating it. Trump is loathed here.

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Robert E Kelly

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All this talk about Biden's age is besides the point & is just the press hankering for the fun of a horse-race next year In reality, 2024 is easy: it's a 2-party system & you can choose either the normal but sorta old guy, or the raving authoritarian sociopath Not a hard choice

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I will be on @BBCWorld in 90 minutes to talk about N Korea. No, my kids will not show up (and yes, for god's sake, I will be wearing pants).

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Hackish Trump confidante caught up in a Borat movie. *sigh* How absolutely fitting of the Trump era’s clownish debasement.

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She’s a yoga teacher. Hence the flexibility

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@Tweet_Dec The kids are adorable but not enough credit goes to @Robert_E_Kelly 's wife. That is one of the smoothest infiltration and extraction I've ever seen. She must be a Navy Seal or SAS at least.

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This is a nice video of how basically normal Biden is. Yeah, he’s old; yeah, you disagree with him on some policy issue. But he’s vastly more humane and good-hearted than Trump who is gleefully rude and callous. The choice between them is so obvious

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Donald Trump brutally mocks those who stutter. Joe Biden does this. Who would you choose if this was your kid? Who would you choose even if it wasn’t?

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end my TV pundit career. Indeed, if it hadn’t been so funny, it probably would have. Hence her panicked response. She was trying to help my career, not grovel. Given all that, I’d say she did pretty well. Here we are just last week 👇 3

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It’s finally happened, the moment the Trump family has been waiting for all year: a serious speaker on North Korea - at the #jejuforum - suggested we may soon see a Trump Tower in Pyongyang & ‘The Apprentice’ on NK state television. I figure I’m now living in a parallel universe

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Post-presser, let’s just say it: Trump is a dove on North Korea. There is nothing ‘strong’ about the following: 1. Gave the summit for nothing. 2. Ducked human rights. 3. Gave up milex with S Korea for no concrete concession. 4. Declared desire to remove USFK, also for nothing /1

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Corona, off from school, week 2. Now we're doing puzzles

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Any expat can tell you this is correct about negative foreign perceptions of Trump. We expats spent the 4 years of Trump’s presidency desperately trying to explain him to foreign colleagues variously shocked, disgusted, or laughing over his behavior. I’m not sure Americans 1

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John Bolton

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Donald Trump is unfit to be president. No rational person believes they could get the Russians and Ukrainians to agree on anything within 24 hours. This impression that adversaries held Trump in high regard was untrue. Foreign leaders think Trump is a laughing fool.

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Robert E Kelly

@Robert_E_Kelly

4 years

“Chairman Un”... Good lord. It’s entirely possible that the N Koreans never intended to give up anything meaningful on nukes, but the sheer incompetence of the Trump admin in the peace process- eg, Trump just strolling into summits with no prep at all - basically insured failure

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George Conway

4 years

This would be as funny as the time Sen. Jesse Helms referred to Kim’s father, Kim Jong-il, as “Kim Jong the Second”—except that O’Brien is the national security advisor to @realDonaldTrump , a complete ignoramus.

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Robert E Kelly

@Robert_E_Kelly

4 years

It’s Chuseok, so here’s BBC Dad and daughter all decked out

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Robert E Kelly

@Robert_E_Kelly

6 years

Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. First, there’s no actual evidence that Trumpian belligerence led to this, only a strong desire of Trump defenders to claim a ‘win.’ Yes, it might be the reason,but we don’t know, so let’s stop saying this as if it’s self-evidently true. It’s not. Second,we /1

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Jonathan Cheng

6 years

Mike Pence: "The fact that N. Korea has come to the table without the U.S. making any concessions speaks to the strength of President Trump’s leadership and is a clear sign that the intense pressure of sanctions is working."

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Robert E Kelly

@Robert_E_Kelly

6 years

I know many of you follow me bc of the BBC Dad video & my kids. Thank you. My wife ( @naramadagogo ) & I continue to be flattered & overwhelmed. Sorry, we don't post much @ the kids. We wonder @ all this global exposure of them. But once in awhile is probably fine, so here is a vid

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Robert E Kelly

@Robert_E_Kelly

4 years

I just don’t understand this kind of Trumpist apocalypticism. NOBODY likes the lock-down. It’s not some liberal conspiracy to keep ppl out of Walmart. The US can get corona under control. It’s just about over here in S Korea. But it takes real effort, including prez leadership

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Robert E Kelly

@Robert_E_Kelly

3 months

The psy-op succeeded! You will all now be marched, in time to Taylor Swift music, to a Pfizer concentration camp overseen by Travis Kelce. There, you will vote 17x by mail for Biden

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Robert E Kelly

@Robert_E_Kelly

6 years

5b) Nobel, because, well, I am pretty sure that threatening national genocide at the United Nations – ‘totally destroy North Korea’ – is a disqualifier.

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Robert E Kelly

@Robert_E_Kelly

4 years

Just keep on shouting. Only 14 more weeks, and we no longer have to put up with this.

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Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

4 years

MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

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Robert E Kelly

@Robert_E_Kelly

3 years

Trump trying to steal Georgia is the big story of the call of course, but T's incoherence is also just shocking. He speaks in barely comprehensible word-salads. When CNN ran a longer version than just clips of the explosive parts, I couldn't even follow what T was trying to argue

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Robert E Kelly

@Robert_E_Kelly

7 years

I'll be on @cnni in an hour to talk about North Korea. And yes, the CNN producer made sure to tell me to lock my door

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Robert E Kelly

@Robert_E_Kelly

6 years

If you has asked Trump voters a week ago about Canada, they would have mumbled something about hockey, Gretzky, and Niagara Falls. Now they are to believe Canada has 'stabbed us in the back,' earning their PM 'a special place in hell.' This is so preposterously idiotic, that /1

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Robert E Kelly

@Robert_E_Kelly

4 years

Trump is just checked out from his own presidency. No one around the world is laughing. They’re all shocked and dismayed. And it’s absurd that this is his response.He has literally no capacity to process this and so falls back on his narcissistic obsession with praise from others

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Kaitlan Collins

@kaitlancollins

4 years

Here's part of the audio from President Trump's call with governors where he said the "whole world was laughing at Minneapolis over the police station getting burned."

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Robert E Kelly

@Robert_E_Kelly

5 years

Happy New Year. We know many of you still follow me because of the BBC video. Thank you. We continue to be flattered by and grateful for your interest and sympathy. Here is an update photo. We are on the Indiana coast of Lake Michigan. Best in the new year.

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Robert E Kelly

@Robert_E_Kelly

6 years

On the Trump-Kim Summit: Summits normally come at the end of a long series of negotiations at lower levels in which lots of devils in the details r hammered out. Trump, always the publicity-seeker, is just diving right in, which is why the Korea analyst community is responding /1

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Robert E Kelly

@Robert_E_Kelly

6 years

Trump likely desperately wants this summit for the TV, attn, & a political 'win' he can market at home to change the story f/ his scandals & blunt a looming blue wave. So the summit will prolly still happen, even tho, scarily, w/ 3 weeks to go, no1 really knows how it will unfold

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Robert E Kelly

@Robert_E_Kelly

3 years

It’s officially Christmas season, so here’s the BBCKids ready to go

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Robert E Kelly

@Robert_E_Kelly

5 years

That’s my bet for the big reason he cancelled the trip: he just can’t handle modern, professional women who stand up to him. Greenland was inane, but being put in his place by woman must have really burned.

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Robert E Kelly

@Robert_E_Kelly

3 years

airports, restaurants, on the street. It's kinda weird when random people approach you and ask, 'hey, are you that guy?' and the answer is yes. But since it's usually positive and genuine, it's ok. 6 Pic: This is from Korean media at the time.The kids are cute; me...not so much

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Robert E Kelly

@Robert_E_Kelly

6 years

6a) The great irony, which US conservative media will never admit of course, is that Trump actually drove SK to the table, not NK. Trump scared SKs so much last year, that Moon’s approval rating has shot up into the 80s%, even though he won with just 41% a year ago, and approval

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Robert E Kelly

@Robert_E_Kelly

6 years

2b) learned this. But instead, he accepted the NK summit offer 45 minutes after he was told of it, without even telling the White House staff, and then drank his own kool-aid watching Fox telling him for weeks that he deserved a Nobel. Now comes the hang-over.

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Robert E Kelly

@Robert_E_Kelly

4 years

This is an exaggeration, bordering on a lie - because it’s Trump, so of course it is. Trump blew the symbolism of going to N Korea by not actually getting anything from Pyongyang. But who cares, right? The whole thing was a re-election gimmick, & his voters won’t bother to ask...

@WhiteHouse45

The White House 45 Archived

4 years

This year, President @realDonaldTrump became the first sitting U.S. president to set foot in North Korea.

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Robert E Kelly

@Robert_E_Kelly

2 years

ADDENDUM: Here’s video of the kids today. The day after BBC Dad day is Marion’s birthday. (That’s why she was so happy with that little strut in the original video.) So we took the kids to a farm to pick fresh strawberries today. Here’s a clip of that.

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Robert E Kelly

@Robert_E_Kelly

4 years

When people ask me what S Korea got right about corona, I start with this baseline - the lack of the overtly selfish and stupid ‘patriotism’ which makes things worse. This shouldn’t be that hard, people...

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Daniel W. Drezner

4 years

Boy, that escalated quickly.

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@Robert_E_Kelly

Robert E Kelly

@Robert_E_Kelly

5 years

This is just embarrassing. Just resign already and go back to TV where you want to be anyway.

@realDonaldTrump

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

5 years

Good night of television! 8:00 PM @WattersWorld 9:00 PM @JudgeJeanine with interview of @RudyGiuliani followed by Greg G. Honest commentary is always nice!

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@Robert_E_Kelly

Robert E Kelly

@Robert_E_Kelly

5 years

To all the MAGA/ONN/KAG/Trumpers who harass me on Twitter, how is this possibly making America great again? Seriously. I want to know how ‘friendship’ with, & propaganda manipulation by, an orwellian tyrant serves US interests & how it’s even remotely ‘conservative’ or Republican

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Robert E Kelly

@Robert_E_Kelly

4 years

This has aged really, really badly. Peace in our time! oh wait...

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Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

6 years

Just landed - a long trip, but everybody can now feel much safer than the day I took office. There is no longer a Nuclear Threat from North Korea. Meeting with Kim Jong Un was an interesting and very positive experience. North Korea has great potential for the future!

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Robert E Kelly

@Robert_E_Kelly

3 years

BBC Daughter plays 'Jingle Bells'

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