When President Donald Trump delivered a tough warning to North Korea on Tuesday, he was following in the footsteps of one of Americas greatest statesmen. As numerous Washington pundits have now noted, Trumps threat to unleash fire and fury on North Korea bears strong resemblance to JFKs historic Prepare To Be Radioactive Skeletons, Motherfuckers speech that he delivered during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
At the peak of the Cold War, tensions were high, and even a slight miscalculation by President Kennedy could have plunged the world into nuclear conflict. JFK knew that he had to deliver a precise, carefully crafted message to peacefully end the standoff, so he went on national television and vowed to wipe Cuba off the goddamn map with a hellfire tsunami thatll char Havana into a glowing ash heap and turn every last Cuban man, woman, child, and pet dog into a red-hot screaming skeleton, you better fucking believe it. Firm and calm in his delivery, he went on to say that after he bombed Cuba he would pay a personal visit to the smoldering rubble to piss all over Fidels corpse and plant an American flag in his empty eye socket and then nuke the junk-ass country all over again just for shits and giggles.
It was a masterful stroke of diplomacy, one that Trump is now clearly trying to channel through his own rhetoric to persuade Kim Jong-un to abandon his nuclear ambitions.
