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Republican governor Larry Hogan of Maryland claimed Donald Trump disparaged the people of South Korea in front of his wife, who is South Korean.
Mr Hogan made the claims in a Washington Post editorial savaging Mr Trump's leadership during the coronavirus pandemic.
According to Mr Hogan, the remarks were made during a private dinner hosted by the Republican Governors Association. The governor recalls Mr Trump talking about how much he respected Chinese President Ji Xinping, how much he enjoyed playing golf with Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and how well he'd gotten along with Kim Jong-Un, the dictator of North Korea.
"Then, the jarring part: Trump said he really didn't like dealing with President Moon from South Korea. The South Koreans were 'terrible people,' he said, and he didn't know why the United States had been protecting them all these years," Mr Hogan wrote. "'They don't pay us, Trump complained.'"
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-accused-calling-south-koreans-193341881.html
FM123
(10,054 posts)Hogan wrote that his wife, Yumi Hogan, was sitting there as the president hurled insults at her birthplace, but managed to endure the speech politely and silently. Yumi Hogan, born in Naju, South Korea, immigrated to the United States in her 20s, married Larry Hogan in 2004 and is the first Korean American first lady of a U.S. state.
wryter2000
(46,116 posts)Apologies to our porcine friends.
Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)That had to have been difficult.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Especially after complimenting Kim Jong-Un. Such a slap in the face!
He is such a vile, odious piece of filth.