Gorka: Trump’s Twitter feed ‘powerful’ enough to make China act on North Korea

White House adviser Sebastian Gorka said Thursday that the administration can use President Trump’s Twitter feed to encourage China to act against North Korea. 

“We have, you know, the president’s Twitter feed,” said Gorka on Fox News when asked what the administration can do to urge China to act on the increasing threat. “If you can win a U.S. election with it, I think it’s pretty powerful.” 

{mosads}Following an North Korean intercontinental ballistic missile test in July, Trump voiced his frustration with the Chinese on Twitter, saying “I am very disappointed in China. Our foolish past leaders have allowed them to make hundreds of billions of dollars a year in trade, yet… they do NOTHING for us with North Korea, just talk. We will no longer allow this to continue. China could easily solve this problem!” 

I am very disappointed in China. Our foolish past leaders have allowed them to make hundreds of billions of dollars a year in trade, yet…

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 29, 2017

…they do NOTHING for us with North Korea, just talk. We will no longer allow this to continue. China could easily solve this problem!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 29, 2017

“We have the most powerful man in the world making it very clear that we came out of the Mar-a-Lago summit with very high hopes,” Gorka said of Trump’s tweets. 

Trump met with Chinese President Xi Jinping at his Florida Mar-a-Lago resort in April seeking to improve relations with the leader and work to persuade China to toughen up on North Korea’s nuclear ambitions.

“Trump is wrong in his assumption that Beijing can single-handedly handle the matter,” according to Chinese state media this month. “As Beijing has said, repeatedly, it does not have the kind of ‘control’ over Pyongyang that the U.S. president believes it does.”