President Donald Trump told Fox News host Sean Hannity Monday that his “little rocket man” brand of rhetoric from earlier this year made him feel “foolish” at times, but that it was all part of a grand strategy to get Kim Jong Un to the table.
“Well, I think without the rhetoric, we wouldn’t have been here,” Trump said of the summit. “We did sanctions and all of the things that you would do. I think without the rhetoric, you know, other administrations, I don’t want to get specific on that, but they had a policy of silence if they said something very bad, very threatening and horrible, just don’t answer. That’s not the answer. That’s not what you have to do.
“So I think the rhetoric, I hated to do it,” he continued. “Sometimes I felt foolish doing it but we had no choice.”
The full interview will air Tuesday night; watch part of it below:
— TPM Livewire (@TPMLiveWire) June 12, 2018
“Pivot ! Pivot ! We’ve a Pivot. Behold the Presidential Being !”
(I think not)…
Look, if there’s not a catastrophic war on the peninsula right now, it’s because of Moon. Trump won’t say a mumbling word about that but Moon really does deserve the credit.
One thing you can say about our great nation during the reign of Trump:
We really CAN stack it that high!
It appears as if Kim has played Trump like a fiddle. No war games for future denuclearization
You would think Hannity could audition for “America’s Got Talent”. I mean, they seem to have an inordinate amount of ventriloquists on that show, and Hannity appears to be able to speak while having Donald Trump’s dick in his mouth.