This morning Trump took to Twitter to defend his first summit with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un.
Trump says the Fake News media is disparaging it by saying that ‘so little happened’, but points out that isn’t true at all:
The Fake News Media loves saying “so little happened at my first summit with Kim Jong Un.” Wrong! After 40 years of doing nothing with North Korea but being taken to the cleaners, & with a major war ready to start, in a short 15 months, relationships built, hostages & remains....
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 24, 2019
...back home where they belong, no more Rockets or M’s being fired over Japan or anywhere else and, most importantly, no Nuclear Testing. This is more than has ever been accomplished with North Korea, and the Fake News knows it. I expect another good meeting soon, much potential!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 24, 2019
Trump is right about all of this, and it is significant. North Korea was firing missiles left and right before the summit and all of that changed.
I think the problem was that the president set the bar so high with denuclearization being the expectation:
Heading back home from Singapore after a truly amazing visit. Great progress was made on the denuclearization of North Korea. Hostages are back home, will be getting the remains of our great heroes back to their families, no missiles shot, no research happening, sites closing...
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 12, 2018
He said “great progress” had been made on the denuclearization of N. Korea, but then that never amounted to much after the summit.
And note that even in today’s tweets, Trump isn’t citing denuclearization as something that was accomplished.
So yes, he’s right that significant accomplishments happened and the MSM isn’t giving him credit for those. But denuclearization was the big claim to fame after the summit and there has been little movement on that front, and the media isn’t wrong to point that out.
And I still wonder why at this point Trump would agree to another summit since Kim clearly doesn’t want to denuclearize his country.
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