re: Why are so many upset with Trump's line; "fire and fury like....has ever seen"?

Trump could announce Ivanka had found a cure for cancer, Aids, and the common cold and the left would still bitch about nepotism instead of the cures themselves.

Upset because everyone, including Kim, knows both that the U.S. will not launch a nuclear attack, and because the empty threat makes the situation more volatile.

Or the shorter and more correct answer: It was a boneheaded statement.

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Had Barry said it, that line would be etched in stone as the most intellectually honest, albeit morally divergent, causality appropriate hint of force in the history of Western Civilization.

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Obama said a number of ill-advised things, regarding foreign policy, that to this day are still heavily and rightfully criticized--even by many on the left.

Yet, despite serving 7.5 years/2700+ days longer and nearly a factor of 15 longer, he never said anything like THIS. So even with. the absence despite FAR more opportunity, the retort is some unprovable hypothetical of "WELL IF HE DID IT they would still think it was positive."

That is one of the weakest and laziest arguments. And worse, it doesn't consider that maybe they viewed him more positively because he didn't so those things.

While it was probably a bit ill advised, I don't think Trump's comments are that big of a deal. But the cult-like defense (like Obamabots to Bush), of Trumpkins comparing it to Obama is pathetic, and even moreso because we had to put up with the same thing from the Obama cult.