Conway describes President Donald Trump’s preparations for next week’s North Korea summit as ‚intense‘ – but won’t say what that means.
Before his 1987 summit with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, President Ronald Reagan met daily with his national security adviser, twice convened State Department specialists in the Situation Room, studied personality profiles, and watched Russian movies.
But any sense of how President Donald Trump is preparing for the historic June 12 summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un – now less than a week away – is much less clear.
When pressed on the president’s prep regimen, one of his top advisers on Wednesday insisted Trump has been preparing extensively, but offered few details that helped explain what, exactly, that entails.
“This president prepares in many different ways for many different major summits,” Kellyanne Conway, counselor to the president, said at a breakfast with reporters Wednesday morning, hosted by the Christian Science Monitor. “He’s been quite active on the international stage with these foreign trips.