Newsweek reports:
President Donald Trump again described his warm relationship with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un at a rally in Wheeling, West Virginia, Saturday, saying: “We fell in love.”
Trump began by talking of the massive threat that North Korea posed before he took office in January 2017. But, he said, his ability to develop a warm relationship with Kim during a summit in Singapore in June has been key to easing tensions.
“That was a big big problem,” Trump said of North Korea in front of a typically raucous pro-Trump crowd. “And, you know, when I did it, and I was really being tough, and so was he. And we were going back and forth, and then we fell in love, OK. No, really. He wrote me beautiful letters, and they’re great letters. And then we fell in love.”
Trump says this — earnestly! — about Kim Jong Un: “We went back and forth, then we fell in love. He wrote me beautiful letters. And they are great letters. We fell in love.” pic.twitter.com/05KpsRgkZJ
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 30, 2018
This is President Trump right now: mocking “presidential” behavior, noting that he and Kim Jong Un “fell in love,” and and making fun of George HW Bush’s “thousand points of light.”
There are no policies, no judges, nothing, that were worth this kind of danger to our country. pic.twitter.com/2dpxRXv8J5— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) September 30, 2018
This is what Donald Trump said tonight about Kim Jong Un, a brutal dictator:
“He wrote me beautiful letters. They’re great letters. We fell in love,”
— Karine Jean-Pierre (@K_JeanPierre) September 30, 2018
To best of my knowledge, from past presidential speeches, no previous US leader ever said he “fell in love” w a foreign leader, including FDR with Winston Churchill and Clinton/GWB w Tony Blair. (Or Nixon with Mao.) https://t.co/S948OwBhYw
— James Fallows (@JamesFallows) September 30, 2018