VideoCast with CNN: Explaining North Korea and Trump’s “Joke” About “President for Life”

Posted by Scott Lucas | Mar 4, 2018 | 0

I joined George Howell on CNN International on Sunday morning to discuss a pair of issues that arose on Saturday — Donald Trump’s claim to have received a phone call “from North Korea” and his “joke”, at a lunch at his Florida resort, that he might follow the example of China’s Xi Jinping about becoming President for Life:

I’m not comfortable w jokes about ending democracy and installing a dictatorship.
Maybe that’s just me.

Watch from 12:17:

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Scott Lucas

Scott Lucas is Professor of International Politics at the Clinton Institute, University College Dublin; Professor Emeritus of International Politics at the University of Birmingham; and editor-in-chief of EA WorldView.He is a specialist in US and British foreign policy and international relations, especially the Middle East and Iran. Formerly he worked as a journalist in the US, writing for newspapers including the Guardian and The Independent and was an essayist for The New Statesman before he founded EA WorldView in November 2008.

VideoCast with CNN: Explaining North Korea and Trump’s “Joke” About “President for Life”

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