'This is bonkers': Trump slammed for calling Putin and Kim Jong Un 'very fine people'
Donald Trump on Friday night took a trip back to his roots when he referred to Kim Jong Un, Putin, and other foreign dictators as "very fine people."
Trump, who was delivering remarks in Concord, New Hampshire, earlier in his speech apparently confused Nikki Haley and Nancy Pelosi, resulting in the ex-president blaming the former for the events of Jan. 6. In this instance, however, Trump was claiming that Haley isn't up to the task of presidency.
"She cannot do this job," he said, naming the dictators and then saying they are "very fine people you have to deal with."
MSNBC personality Mehdi Hasan had this to say:
"Trump in 2017 referred to Nazis as ‘very fine people’. Trump in 2024 refers to foreign dictators as ‘very fine people.’ And almost half of Americans and much of the GOP is ready to make him president *again*. Sheesh."
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David Corn, Mother Jones' Washington bureau chief, said that Trump is claiming "that the woman he appointed UN ambassador is not smart enough and not tough enough. What does that say about the guy who hired her? And yes he referred to Putin and Kim as 'very fine people.' This is bonkers."
Jay Nordlinger, the senior editor for National Review, said, "They are not very fine people. They are murderous dictators. Americans, please stop this man from being president again," Nordlinger wrote.
Authoritarian expert Ruth Ben-Ghiat also threw in her two cents.
"So Communists and Fascists are both very fine people. It's just democrats that he despises."
Dem lawmaker Adam Schiff also accused Trump of coddling terroristic nations.
"Tonight, Donald Trump called Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un 'very fine people,'" he said. "He's not hiding who his friends are - and they're no friends of the United States."