Leave it to Trump to drop any pretense of special insight into Kim Jong Un’s thinking and to flat-out say that his administration is “just reading stories like you are.”
President Trump professed Thursday to know no more than the reporters questioning him about whether North Korea might cancel his scheduled meeting next month with its leader, Kim Jong Un.
“We have not been told anything,” Trump said during a brief question-and-answer session, as he met with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. “We’re just reading stories like you are.”
North Korea objected Tuesday to joint military exercises by the United States and South Korea. Pyongyang said through its state news agency: “The United States must carefully contemplate the fate of the planned North Korea-U. S. summit amid the provocative military ruckus that it’s causing with South Korean authorities. We’ll keenly monitor how the United States and South Korean authorities will react.”
Trump told reporters Thursday: “I can only say our people are literally dealing with them right now, in terms of making arrangements for the meeting. So that’s a lot different than what you read, but oftentimes what you read — if it’s not fake news — is true.
