FOREIGN POLICY/JOE BIDEN/NORTH KOREA/POLITICAL FIGURES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Vice President Joe Biden on Wednesday [1-3-18] criticized President Donald Trump’s tweets on North Korea, telling CNN that this is ‘really poor judgment’ and warned the President that his ‘words matter.’…
Biden said he is disappointed that Trump has not become more presidential over the year, and that he believes the President is ‘much, much too cavalier’ about his role in the world…
Biden, who returned to the Capitol for the swearing-in of Sen. Doug Jones of Alabama, said that the world sees in Trump a President acting in a way that is ‘totally inconsistent’ with his predecessors…
Biden did not raise this issue Wednesday when he saw Vice President Mike Pence on Capitol Hill because he says didn’t think it was appropriate, other than to suggest to Pence that he ‘continue to give the President his advice.’…
Biden said Trump’s tweets have not played into his calculus on whether he will run for president in 2020.”
-Sunlen Serfaty and Kristin Wilson, “Biden says Trump is ‘too cavalier … it’s dangerous’,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, Jan. 3, 2018 02:47pm