Is It Possible He Has No Idea?
Is it possible President Donald Trump doesn’t know anything about North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un? In a Fox News interview set to air Tuesday on “Fox & Friends,” (clip above) President Trump appears to go out of his way to call the Supreme Leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, “this gentleman,” several times, while confusing him with his father, who died in 2011.
Asked by Fox News’Â Ainsley Earhardt if he’s ruled out a military strike against the North Korean dictatorship, Trump said he didn’t want to “telegraph” what he’s doing or what he’s thinking.Â
“I’m not like other administrations where they say, ‘We’re going to do this in four weeks.’ It doesn’t work that way. We’ll see what happens. I hope things work out well. I hope there’s going to be peace, but you know they’ve been talking with this gentleman for a long time,†Trump said.
The President went on to attack former President Bill Clinton on the North Korean leader, but the man currently in power is not the man who was the head of North Korea when Clinton was president. He is his son.
As Talking Points Memo first reported, “Trump also made two references in the interview to ‘this gentleman’ in North Korea, who he said had ‘outplayed’ both Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.”Â
“You read Clinton’s book, he said, ‘Oh, we made such a great peace deal,’ and it was a joke. You look at different things over the years with President Obama. Everybody has been outplayed, they’ve all been outplayed by this gentleman. And we’ll see what happens. But I just don’t telegraph my moves.â€
Kim Jong-un has been the head of North Korea since April of 2012. His father, Kim Jong-il, was in power until he died in December 2011. President Trump seems to be confusing the two, thinking they are the same person, while not being able to speak either man’s name.
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