Could Trump’s Tweets Really Start WWIII?

Liberals and Democrats are ramping up the rhetoric against one of their favorite targets.

Not President Donald Trump. President Donald Trump’s Twitter feed.

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Liberals and Democrats have claimed of late that Trump’s tweets are so reckless, they could start a war. But Trump’s policies are different from his tweets, and his policies are pretty good, said conservative writer Mollie Hemingway, senior editor of The Federalist website, on Fox News’ “The Ingraham Angle.”

“There’s certainly room to have problems with his tweets,” Hemingway told host Laura Ingraham. “There’s his rhetoric, but there’s also just the reality. And when you look at the reality of his foreign policy, he’s actually got some of the more restrained foreign policy that we’ve seen going back to someone like Eisenhower … It’s funny to hear people talk about, worrying about, getting into wars … That’s what the … last several administrations have done, get us into wars needlessly.”

Trump’s public statements and his harsh tweets and social media posts are simply demands to be taken seriously by rogue nations, and those nations’ trading partners.

Hemingway said Trump’s public statements and his harsh tweets and social media posts are simply demands to be taken seriously by rogue nations, and those nations’ trading partners.

“He does want to convey his seriousness with North Korea,” said Hemingway. “The tweets are not more directed toward North Korea … but China, and getting China to take it seriously … His rhetoric could use improvement. But people observing it need to separate that rhetoric from the reality of the presidency. And from the reality, he’s actually operating as a pretty mainstream president, with a lot of accomplishments to back him up.”

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Ingraham said the constant criticisms of Trump’s rhetoric and the implications that Trump has a condition such as dementia are similar to criticisms aimed at her old boss, former President Ronald Reagan. Democrats and pundits often implied in the early 1980s that Reagan was leading the nation to war with Russia and the Soviet bloc.

But wars don’t happen because of mere words, Hemingway said. And North Korea is undeterred by verbal threats, history shows.

“Military historian Victor Davis Hanson says there’s no evidence in history of an errant word causing a war,” said Hemingway. “We have had a lot of rhetoric from the previous administrations warning North Korea about destruction if they continued with their nuclear capabilities. Nothing has stopped them. Absolutely nothing. Everything about our posture for the last several decades has done nothing to keep North Korea from the path they’re on.”