Trump can feed them anything , and they will just eat it up.
Trump Referenced The Wrong Korea At Media Dinner: Report
“President Trump did not have a call with the North Koreans,” a source told Yonhap News Agency.
The National Security Council clarified on Monday that President
Donald Trump did not have a call with North Korea last week, but rather, was referencing another interaction he’d had with the president of South Korea, a longtime ally of the United States.
At a media dinner on Saturday, Trump spoke about North Korea and said he would not rule out direct talks with the country’s leader, Kim Jong Un. Tensions with Pyongyang have appeared to cool in recent weeks, and both
North Korean and
American officials have said they would be willing to open diplomatic channels.
But Trump suggested that
such talks had already begun, telling
those gathered at the Gridiron Dinner in Washington, D.C., on Saturday that the North had “called up a couple of days ago and said, ‘We would like to talk.’”
“And I said, ‘So would we, but you have to de-nuke, you have to de-nuke,’” Trump added.
But he was apparently referencing the wrong Korea when he made those comments.
An unnamed official on the National Security Council told South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency that “President Trump
did not have a call with the North Koreans.” Rather, the official said Trump was referencing a call with South Korean President Moon Jae-in on March 1.
A source provided the
same clarification to Agency France-Presse. The White House did not immediately reply to HuffPost’s request for comment.
It wouldn’t have made any sense for Trump to tell South Korea to “de-nuke” ― Seoul abandoned its nuclear weapons program
decades ago ― so it’s not clear why the U.S. president would have presented his conversation that way.