[decafninja]

There is a conspiracy theory amongst the Korean far-right that Trump's recent tariff threats on Korea are because of his supposed affinity towards former impeached president Yoon and the Korean far-right in general. In other words, these recent tariff threats are in punishment for the current Lee Jae Myung administration's treatment of Yoon and the Korean right-wing in general.

So far I have seen no convincing evidence that this is true, especially considering Trump tends not to be very nuanced about stuff like this. Despite the Korean far-right's very vocal appeal for Trump to come and rescue Yoon or even do a Venezuela-style intervention, Trump seems to have more or less ignored them, and hasn't given Yoon much sympathy or attention either.

The Korean far-right has also made similar appeals to Elon Musk, but Elon too, seems to be ignoring them, unlike the support he's given to European far-right parties.