Trump Slams China For Seizing Drone, Calls It 'Unprecedented Act'

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo

By ESME CRIBB Published DECEMBER 17, 2016, 9:38 AM EDT

In a tweet posted early Saturday morning, President-elect Donald Trump ripped China for its reported seizure of a U.S. Navy unmanned underwater drone in the South China Sea.

Trump called it an "unprecedented act"—spelled "unpresidented" in the initial post saved on Politwoops, which the President-elect later deleted and reposted with the correct spelling.

Donald J. Trump ✔
@realDonaldTrump

China steals United States Navy research drone in international waters - rips it out of water and takes it to China in unprecedented act.

8:57 AM - 17 Dec 2016
5,843 Retweets 15,292 likes

Navy Capt. Jeff Davis, a Pentagon spokesman, said on Friday that the drone was collecting unclassified scientific data when it was taken by a Chinese ship. He said the U.S. has asked for it to be returned and has issued a formal complaint.

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Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trump-china-seizing-underwater-drone

[Tactical Peek]

1. Unpresidented comes later.

Paging Dr. Freud, to the white courtesy telephone, please.

[LAGC]

10. ...

Freudian slip, alright.

[EricMaundry]

12. Hopefully the Electoral College will unpresident him.

[LAGC]

15. I have a feeling he'll "unpresident" himself within the first year, if not.

I really don't see how he makes it even a year in without being impeached.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

19. I don't see how he makes it without quitting....

He's never had an actual JOB in his life.

Wait until his first natural disaster when he finds out he has to shelter and feed people for FREE.

[Pachamama]

35. From your lips to the Electoral College Ears

If there has ever been anyone in our nations history that should be "Unpresidented", it is Comrade Trumpski...

[wordpix]

43. I caught that, too. Just blogging for Trump to be unpresidented

[EricMaundry]

2. This asshole is going to get a lot of people killed with his big stupid mouth

[tanyev]

9. And his tiny little hands.

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[lapfog_1]

27. And his psychosis about his tiny thing that often goes with small hands - n/t

[no_hypocrisy]

3. I wish that Trump being illiterate and uneducated were the worst faults he has.

[yuiyoshida]

4. God is he crazy? Does he want us all to die

if China decides to declare war on us? What the fuck has the USA done? Its voted in a madman who is fucking crazy!!

[leftyladyfrommo]

22. They don't have to declare war.

All they have to do is call in our debt.

[yuiyoshida]

26. well that would certainly be better than

hitting our cities with planes, bombs and bullets. I don't think Trump would pay it, like many of his so called deals, he has reneged on, this will be no different.

[Pachamama]

36. Maybe that's what he wants?

Been thinking a lot about what the reasons are for starting a war with china...

How about a new currency and eliminating all debt to our biggest Creditor....in any event, the reasons and strategies of this mad man are not out of the realm of this possibility. And dividing the spoils of the world with Russia.

Crazy? Maybe...but when crazy decides to do crazy, it's real...

[NobodyHere]

48. And exactly how would that work?

We would just say "piss off"

[wordpix]

44. MSNBC/AM Joy reported today Russia dropped backing Trump a couple of times b/c

he was too unstable. But Putin despises HRC so much he came back to his crazy love

[justhanginon]

5. No spellcheck on words pulled directly from one's ass.

[George II]

6. He'd better be careful, they might call in their $900M loan to him.

[moosewhisperer]

7. You don't need spellcheck...

...if you have a press conference.

[blitzburgh55]

8. China hits back over seized US Navy drone after Donald Trump tweet

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/china-seized-us-navy-drone-donald-trump-tweet-a7481486.html

[Coyotl]

11. 158 IQ at work??

[Pachamama]

37. 15.8 IQ

The decimal is off

[lastlib]

41. Move it another place to the left, and you've got it.......

[lastlib]

42. SHOW US THE MENSA CARD, DONNY!!!

[Coyotl]

49. We may have a new loser, someone lower than GW.

With a big zero on the empathy score.

[bucolic_frolic]

13. Policy by Twitter is going to be an adventure

Click that mouse, Donnie Boy, just don't push that button!

[TeddyBear 1]

14. I read somewhere that..

China is giving it back..

My opinion is... Trump will announce credit for getting it back with his twitter rant.. He is soooo powerful with twitter.. Who knew?

[wordpix]

45. and don't forget---it's all Obama's fault that China nabbed the drone

[Glimmer of Hope]

16. How embarrassing and terrifying.

[Javaman]

17. and away we go! nt

[Jim__]

18. I wonder if Trump ever heard of the Pueblo Incident.

Remember?

But, he wasn't in politics then, so how could he possibly know?

[bucolic_frolic]

20. Exactly.

The man doesn't know beans about foreign policy, and he can't spell
'unprecedented' and he is now merely retweeting the news. There is
not an ounce of neuron activity in that tweet.

BIG trouble ahead.

[wordpix]

46. "BIG trouble ahead?" More like Big Trouble Now. The EC is our only hope

So far, it appears that not even the fact Donny is Pooty-pout's puppet will move them from confirming the idiot-boy

[GusBob]

21. This is a more important point than a typo

Know history, know diplomacy

[TheCowsCameHome]

25. He probably thinks it's a weekly Colorado newspaper.

[SunSeeker]

32. Or, more specifically with regard to China, the Hainan Island incident?

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2001/04/02/world/us-plane-in-china-after-it-collides-with-chinese-jet.html

That was only 15 years ago, after Trump had already spouted off about running for president under the "Reform Party."

[DesertRat]

23. Dear Santa...

Dear Santa, all I want for Christmas is for the #ElectoralCollege to make Trump #unpresidented.

https://twitter.com/tracyealy1/status/810130710719823872

[SunSeeker]

31. +1

[Crash2Parties]

24. China is going to play him like a carny plays a townie trying to impress his girl...

[HassleCat]

28. He likes that things that rip.

I notice he describes "ripping" a lot. Not sure what to make of that.

[bucolic_frolic]

29. Jack the Ripper

Dominant, uncaring, brutal

[SunSeeker]

30. Trump you fucking ignorant fool, China has done this before, only worse.

At the beginning of Dubya's administration, a Chinese fighter was tailing our spy plane flying over international waters. It tailed it so close it ended up colliding with it and our plane had to land on China's Hainan Island. The Chinese held the plane and its 24 crew members for 11 days. http://mobile.nytimes.com/2001/04/02/world/us-plane-in-china-after-it-collides-with-chinese-jet.html
After allowing the crew to leave, they held onto the plane, taking it apart, literally. They eventually returned the plane to us in boxes:
http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=80826&page=1

China intercepted one of our spy planes flying over the South China Sea again just this May, albeit without colliding with it:
https://www.google.com/amp/www.nbcnews.com/news/china/amp/chinese-intercept-u-s-military-spy-plane-over-south-china-n576351

[KewlKat]

33. the ba$tard is going to get us into a war with China......I feel it in my bones.....

Electoral College, do your effing job!

[Pachamama]

38. And so it begins...

Comrade Trumpski's planned War with China is on schedule...

[wordpix]

47. You mean Putin's planned war, allied with Trump vs. China

Remember the brains of the outfit. Reported this morning on msnbc that Pooty is worth about $200 BILLION. Donny aspires to reach that worth b/c he knows, deep down, he's really worth $0

[Augiedog]

39. Its so hard having a big brain and being really smart.

[lark]

40. Not true, media cover up or laziness?

Original tweet said "unpresidented". It was removed. Wonder which of his kids caught that?

[Brother Buzz]

50. Maybe that's why the TPM article included the 'quotation marks' in the title....

and explained the the change in the article. I'm not and editor, nor do I play one on television, but I understand that is the proper way according to the AP Stylebook.