Republicans Pounce On Washed Up 45 Shout Out!

The former president praised North Korea's leader.

Think about it. If President Joe Biden did it.... the Republicans would go ape shit.

But anything Biden does the far right is going bonkers over it.

We expect this week that former vice president Mike Pence, former New Jersey governor Chris Christie and North Dakota governor Doug Burgum to enter the 2024 Republican presidential nomination race.

All the candidates are competing against the frontrunner Washed Up 45 who has already a large lead despite the amount of candidates, the controversies and the relentless media coverage, he is in a comfortable position to avoid Iowa.

The Republican candidates pounced on his praise of Kim Jong Un, the dictator of North Korea.

“Congratulations to Kim Jung [sic] Un!” Washed Up 45 wrote Friday on his social media platform, Truth Social.

Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, who was the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations during the Washed Up 45 administration, and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis criticized the former president’s post at Iowa GOP Sen. Joni Ernst's “Roast and Ride” event Saturday in Iowa.

Washed Up 45 believex Kim Jong Un would listen to him.

“Kim Jong Un is a thug and a tyrant, and he has tested ballistic missiles against our allies,” Haley told NBC News. “He’s threatened us. There’s nothing to congratulate him about. I mean, he’s been terrible to his people. He’s been terrible to America, and we need to stop being nice to countries that hate America.”

DeSantis said he was “surprised” Washed Up 45 praised Kim, whom he called a “murderous dictator.”

Former Vice President Mike Pence, who is expected to announce a presidential bid this week, criticized his former running mate for congratulating Kim.

“Whether it's my former running mate or anyone else, nobody should be praising the dictator in North Korea or praising the leader in Russia, who has launched an unprovoked war of aggression in Ukraine,” Pence said Saturday in an interview with Fox News. “This is a time when we ought to make it clear to the world that we stand for freedom and we stand with those who stand for freedom.”

Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson also piled on the former president in a tweet Saturday: “Kim Jong-Un, the tyrant dictator in North Korea should not be praised by Donald Trump for a leadership role in the World Health Organization. We sanction leaders who oppress their people. We do not elevate them on the world stage.”

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, who has ruled out running for president but recently hosted a private donor retreat to raise money for GOP candidates, joined the fray as well. “Taking our country back from Joe Biden does not start with congratulating North Korea’s murderous dictator,” he tweeted.

Kemp drew the former president’s ire after he refused to push baseless claims of election fraud in Georgia.

Washed Up 45 campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung attacked DeSantis in a statement, arguing that the Iowa event, which the former president did not attend, would not affect his status as the front-runner.

He filed paperwork.

"President Trump achieved peace through strength and, as a result, no new wars were started under his presidency. On the other hand, Ron DeSantis is a puppet of the establishment war mongers and doesn’t have the strength, fortitude, or will to stand up against America’s adversaries," Cheung said. "In Iowa there were far better candidates than DeSantis who didn’t come across as an awkward and wooden swamp-like knock off of Jeb Bush."

He also touted the former president's record on the economy, energy, the southern border and foreign policy.

In 2019, the former president became the first sitting U.S. president to step onto North Korean soil since the 1953 armistice divided the peninsula, after having met with Kim twice before.

During his presidency, Washed Up 45 claimed that he had “developed a very, very good relationship” with Kim.

“We’ll see what that means,” the former president said in remarks to governors in February 2019. “But he’s never had a relationship with anybody from this country and hasn’t had lots of relationships anywhere.”

Kim also heaped praise on Washed Up 45 in a letter to the White House before a summit between them in Vietnam in 2019 while making it clear he wished to negotiate only with the former president and not his envoys, current and former U.S. officials said at the time.