Trump Attacks Chuck Todd Over NK Analysis: ‘We Haven’t Given Up Anything’

on April 18, 2018 in West Palm Beach, Florida.
WEST PALM BEACH, FL - APRIL 18: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at a joint news conference held with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (not pictured) at Mar-a-Lago resort on April 18, 2018 in West Palm Beach, Fl... WEST PALM BEACH, FL - APRIL 18: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at a joint news conference held with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (not pictured) at Mar-a-Lago resort on April 18, 2018 in West Palm Beach, Florida. The two leaders are meeting for a multi-day working meeting where they are discussing world events. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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President Donald Trump on Sunday attacked NBC’s Chuck Todd over Todd’s analysis of the planned summit between Trump and North Korean ruler Kim Jong Un.

Trump is incorrect on an important point: North Korea has not “agreed to denuclearization.” 

Rather, Kim said Saturday that “under the proven condition of complete nuclear weapons, we no longer need any nuclear tests, mid-range and intercontinental ballistic rocket tests, and that the nuclear test site in northern area has also completed its mission,” according to CNN, which cited North Korea’s state-run news agency.

As the Associated Press reported Sunday, referring to Kim’s ballistic missile and nuclear capabilities, “[t]he North’s latest announcement stopped well short of suggesting it has any intention of giving [them] up.”

Trump appeared to be referring to Todd’s analysis on the “Today” show Sunday morning.

“He seems to be giving very little but making it seem like he’s giving a lot, and he’s giving off a tone of cooperation,” Todd said, referring to the North Korean leader.

“Look, the tone in itself, obviously, is a positive development,” he continued. “And as a diplomatic overture, the U.S. would look terrible if they didn’t accept that kind of overture and at least continue the conversation.”

“But, I have to tell you,” Todd said, “there is a lot of people asking, there’s not many preconditions the United States is asking for. So far in this potential summit, North Koreans have gotten a lot out of it. What has the United States gotten yet? We don’t have a release of any of those Americans that they’ve held captive. We don’t have a pledge of denuclearization as the ultimate goal. There’s a lot of things they are not promising that is raising some red flags.”

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  1. Here Lies Donald Trump.

    An epitaph to live by.

  2. Avatar for sanni sanni says:

    Either he doesn’t understand the word denuclearization, or he doesn’t grasp that having a nuke (the claim as to why no need for more testing) is why NK is now agreeable to no testing.

    Either way, he’s dim as a 2 watt bulb.

    o/t Shouldn’t this be illegal? (Rep Chris Collins legislating for self-enrichment)

    and edited to add: Does Don do anything all day besides watch tv, golf and tweet?

  3. leaving these here

    “Unless there is independent monitoring … any unilateral undertakings by the North Koreans will probably not be worth the paper they’re written on,” he said.

  4. Why is he watching fake news? And responding to it?

  5. Trump is absolutely clueless on the interdependence that makes human life on this earth possible.

    GOOD NEIGHBORS

    At times,
    in looking out
    the window
    of my den,
    it seems
    more trees than air.

    I am relieved that
    those trees choose
    to breathe for me.

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