Student Confronts Donald Trump on False US-ROK Cost Sharing Claims
|Finally someone confronted Donald Trump on the false claims he has been making that the South Koreans pay the US nothing for assisting with their defense. Unfortunately Trump was allowed to now claim the South Koreans pay peanuts which is not true. The ROK has historically been paying anywhere between 43% – 47% of the cost of the US-ROK alliance. This year the ROK is paying $861 million which is not peanuts. Like I have always said, if someone wants to have an argument that the ROK should be paying more, that is a valid argument, but to claim they pay nothing or now pay peanuts is not accurate. However, Mr. Trump likely knows this, but is just making a political argument that sounds good to uninformed voters:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDLKsY1UkzQ&t=34m33s
Mr. Trump proves that you don’t necessarily have to be smart (or well-informed) to have money… or run for president.