Trump was interviewed by the
Wall Street Journal. I can't get to that without a subscription, but there are some places where it's being reported on that I can access. And perhaps wish I couldn't.
Barely more than a week after boasting that he has a bigger nuclear button than Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader, President Trump portrayed himself on Thursday as having good relations with the autocratic leader of the rogue nation.
“I probably have a very good relationship with Kim Jong-un,” Mr. Trump told The Wall Street Journal in an interview. “I have relationships with people. I think you people are surprised.”
NYT
He
probably has a very good relationship with Kim?
Mr. Trump declined to say whether he had directly spoken with his North Korean counterpart. “I’m not saying I have or haven’t,” he said.
Translation: he hasn't.
The current, more positive, state of the president’s relationship with Mr. Kim, according to Mr. Trump, comes in the midst of a modest thaw in relations between North Korea and South Korea, whose officials met, face-to-face, for talks for the first time in recent days. Those talks have not included Mr. Trump, who said in Thursday’s interview that his shifting commentary about the North Korean leader was part of a broader strategy.
“You’ll see that a lot with me,” Mr. Trump said, referring to the difference between his friendly tone toward Mr. Kim and his previous tweets calling him a “maniac” and a “short and fat” person. “And then all of the sudden somebody’s my best friend. I could give you 20 examples. You could give me 30. I’m a very flexible person.”
"Very flexible" = he doesn't know what he's saying or to whom he's talking.
In the interview on Thursday, Mr. Trump said he expected that North Korea’s effort to talk with South Korea is an attempt to drive a wedge between the South Koreans and the United States. He said that probably was their motivation, and he suggested that he should know.
“The difference is I’m president, other people aren’t,” Mr. Trump told The Wall Street Journal. “And I know more about wedges than any human being that’s lived.”
Jesus wept.
Trump said that he’s seen more false press than anyone else ‘in the history of this country,” attributing that the liberal media’s feelings toward him.
“They dislike me. The liberal media dislikes me,” Trump said. “I was always the best at what I did. … I went to the Wharton School of Finance, did well. … I started out in a Brooklyn office with my father, I became one of the most successful real-estate developers, one of the most successful business people. I created maybe the greatest brand.”
He specifically called out NBC, saying that one of the reasons the network “hates: him is because he refused to sign on for another three years of his television show, The Apprentice, after twelve years on the air.
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“And then people say oh, is he a smart person?” he added. “I’m smarter than all of them put together, but they can’t admit it. They had a bad year.”
Politico
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