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Trump Blasts South Korea as Unstable

August 25, 2025 at 1:44 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

President Trump questioned South Korea’s political stability on Truth Social, hours before he was to host President Lee Jae Myung at the White House to discuss tariffs, trade and military cooperation, Axios reports.

Said Trump: “Seems like a Purge or Revolution. We can’t have that and do business there.”

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goddard-bw-snapshotTaegan Goddard is the founder of Political Wire, one of the earliest and most influential political web sites. He also runs Political Job Hunt, Electoral Vote Map and the Political Dictionary.

Goddard spent more than a decade as managing director and chief operating officer of a prominent investment firm in New York City. Previously, he was a policy adviser to a U.S. Senator and Governor.

Goddard is also co-author of You Won - Now What? (Scribner, 1998), a political management book hailed by prominent journalists and politicians from both parties. In addition, Goddard's essays on politics and public policy have appeared in dozens of newspapers across the country.

Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University. He lives in New York with his wife and three sons.

Goddard is the owner of Goddard Media LLC.

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