Nikki Haley Makes Valentine’s Day Cards Out of Trump’s Praise for Dictators
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Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley published a serious of mock Valentine’s Day cards from her opponent Donald Trump to various dictators — including Kim Jong Un, Vladimir Putin, and Xi Jinping — using his own words on Wednesday.
Here’s how each of them read.
Trump to North Korean Dictator Kim Jong Un:
Kim wrote me beautiful letters and they’re great letters. We fell in love.
Trump to Russian Dictator Vladimir Putin:
I called President Putin of Russia to congratulate him on his election victory. The Fake News Media is crazed because they wanted me to excoriate him. They are wrong! Getting along with Russia is a good thing, not a bad thing…
Trump to Chinese Dictator Xi Jinping:
He’s strong like granite, he’s strong. I know him very well, President Xi of China… what can I say: he runs 1.4 billion people with an iron hand.
Trump to the Taliban:
The Taliban, good fighters, I will tell you, good fighters. You have to give them credit for that. They’ve been fighting for a thousand years. What they do is they fight.
The @NikkiHaley campaign releases “Love Letters from Trump,” wishing a “Happy Valentine’s Day from Donald Trump to dictators around the world.” pic.twitter.com/WGJ1IVPPPc
— Philip Melanchthon Wegmann (@PhilipWegmann) February 14, 2024
Haley, who served as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations during the first two years of Trump’s presidential term, has previously criticized her old boss for his praise of America’s enemies.
Last month in New Hampshire, Haley accused Trump of being “obsessed with these dictators” and drew special attention to his praise of Kim Jong Un, who murdered American Otto Warmbier.
Notably, while Trump has had many a kind word to say about many of his country’s declared enemies, he’s mocked Haley over her deployed military husband’s absence on the campaign trail.
“Where’s her husband? Oh, he’s away. He’s away. What happened to her husband? What happened to her husband?! Where is he?! He’s gone. He knew. He knew,” shouted Trump at a rally in Haley’s home state of South Carolina on Saturday.
