Trump asked why 'pretty Korean lady' analyst wasn't negotiating with North Korea

[plush-cthulhu]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jan/12/trump-intelligence-analyst-pretty-korean-lady

 

Amid a global furore over his reported remarks about “shithole countries†and immigration, Donald Trump faced further controversy on Friday when it was reported that he referred to an intelligence analyst presenting information to him in the Oval Office as a “pretty Korean lady†and suggested she should be part of negotiations with North Korea.

 

NBC News reported the exchange between the president and a “career intelligence analyst who is an expert in hostage policyâ€. The analyst, the report said, was briefing Trump last fall on “the impending release of a family long held in Pakistanâ€.

 

Citing two officials with direct knowledge of the exchange, NBC said the president asked the analyst where she was from, to which she said New York City. Trump reportedly pressed, asking where “your people†were from.

The NBC report said the analyst said her parents were Korean, leading Trump to ask an adviser why the “pretty Korean lady†was not involved in negotiations with nuclear-armed North Korea.

 

NBC said it did not interview the analyst, whose identity and agency it did not reveal, citing concern for her privacy. The White House did not immediately comment.

On Twitter on Friday morning, Trump denied having made the “shithole†remark. The senior Democratic senator Dick Durbin, who was in the meeting, subsequently said that he had.

According to NBC, the officials who discussed the “pretty Korean lady†remark “said the president likely meant no harm with his inquiry, but it raised concern of a lack of cultural sensitivity and decorumâ€.

 

The NBC report listed other instances of the president speaking with an apparent lack of sensitivity in formal surroundings, in meetings with members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) and with Navajo code talkers.

The president reportedly expressed surprise that no CBC members knew Ben Carson, the housing and urban development secretary who is the only black member of his cabinet.

At the code talkers event, in November, Trump joked about the Massachusetts Democratic senator Elizabeth Warren, whom he has nicknamed “Pochahontas†over her claim of Native American ancestry.

 

 

[MidnightEXO]

WHAT IN THE HOLY FUCK is with this man

[Thatoneuser]

At this point, I'm not surprised anymore. That just shows how not normal this presidency is. 

[timidjock79]

On behalf of all my countrymen, I am apologizing in advance for our idiot leader-in-chief's  lack of cultural and gender sensitivity. He is a disgrace toddler trapped in a hideous body of a 70 year old man. Please ignore him, a lot of Americans do. 

[Sailor Mars]

[Queen's Mine]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jan/12/trump-intelligence-analyst-pretty-korean-lady

 

 

 

“pretty Korean lady†who?

[demasta]

mess

[sakurahanabira]

as an Asian American, this kind of thing infuriates me. It's like to people like him, it doesn't matter if we were born in the US, we're treated as perpetual foreigners. Meanwhile his wife is an actual foreigner yet she's accepted as American while us Asian Americans who were actually born in the US don't?

[Queen's Mine]

as an Asian American, this kind of thing infuriates me. It's like to people like him, it doesn't matter if we were born in the US, we're treated as perpetual foreigners. Meanwhile his wife is an actual foreigner yet she's accepted as American while us Asian Americans who were actually born in the US don't?

 

It's about majority and skin colour.

 

US is Caucasian country

[jjangyi]

I still couldn't believe Americans chose him as their president

[TracerB]

as an Asian American, this kind of thing infuriates me. It's like to people like him, it doesn't matter if we were born in the US, we're treated as perpetual foreigners. Meanwhile his wife is an actual foreigner yet she's accepted as American while us Asian Americans who were actually born in the US don't?

 

Yup, Americans need to get this mentality out of their heads. If you were born here, grew up with the culture, going to school, working + socializing with other Americans and have a citizenship, you are an American, period. Skin colour is irrelevant to your nationality.

[sakurahanabira]

I still couldn't believe white Americans chose him as their president

fixed because the people who voted for him were mostly white Americans. The majority of Black, Asian, and Latin Americans didn't.

[PeachyKeys!]

So what else is he going to be allowed to say and do before impeachment is on the table?

[Blink Once]

Impech this racist already!

[Kaotic_Belle]

He's gonna get us killed. It's been nice knowing ya'll.

[Julius]

If you were born here, grew up with the culture, going to school, working + socializing with other Americans and have an American citizenship, you are an American, period.

 

Fixed.