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In two separate address to the press on Thursday, President Trump doubled and tripled down on his powerful threats to North Korea. After denouncing the President’s original tough warning of “fire and fury” on Tuesday, the Big Three Networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) were equally bitter with him after he told them that “if anything maybe that statement wasn't tough enough.” So during their evening news casts on Thursday, they sounded off as they chided the President for taking a stand.
On NBC Nightly News, Anchor Lester Holt went low and immediately used the island of Guam as a weapon to strike Trump. “President Trump fired off another round of vague but ominous sounding threats at North Korea this afternoon,” he claimed as he began the show. “In his latest verbal salvo, the President seemed to paint another red line, this time over Guam, the U.S. island North Korea threatens to bracket with missile strikes.”
“As that war of words plays out between President Trump and Kim Jong-un, suddenly caught in the middle are 160,000 Americans living and working on the U.S. territory Guam,” added Holt as he led into the network’s second of three stories on the North Korea situation.
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. Craig Millward
