Rachel Maddow Cracks Up at Trump Congratulating Kim Jong Un: ‘Really Didn’t See That Coming?’ (Video)
thewrap.comNorth Korean dictator Kim Jong Un on Friday for the addition of North Korea to the executive board of the World Health Organization.
On Monday night, Maddow couldn’t help but laugh at history repeating itself.That history, as she reminded her viewers, is “the Do Not Congratulate saga” of 2018.
The short version of that is, in 2018, The Washington Post reported that Trump’s then-team had to write the words “do not congratulate” in all caps across his briefings about the election of Russian leader Vladimir Putin.“They were not real elections.
It was therefore important that the President of the United States shouldn’t endorse the purported outcome of these elections, as if they were real,” Maddow explained.Of course, Trump ignored those words and immediately congratulated Putin upon speaking with him.
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