Just hours after three Americans being held in North Korea returned to U.S. soil Donald Trump announced that the specifics of his meeting with Kim Jong Un have been set.
The highly anticipated meeting between Kim Jong Un and myself will take place in Singapore on June 12th. We will both try to make it a very special moment for World Peace!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 10, 2018
Earlier this morning as Trump greeted the Americans returning home in a full-blown made-for-tv event. he even had kind words for the North Korean dictator.
This morning's prisoner release event highlighted the very best of Trump (dramatic televised welcome-home greeting).
As well as the very worst (see below).
Via @NBCFirstRead https://t.co/bMQ4ZDESTP pic.twitter.com/m7IvMVgzt2
— Mark Murray (@mmurraypolitics) May 10, 2018
Politico reports:
“We want to thank Kim Jong Un,” Trump said after emerging from the medical plane that transported the three prisoners, which he and his wife had boarded to greet the men. “We very much appreciate that he allowed them to go before the meeting. He was nice in letting them go before the meeting … That was a big thing, very important to me.”
This is quite a departure from Trump’s previous statements on Kim Jong Un.
Kim Jong Un of North Korea, who is obviously a madman who doesn't mind starving or killing his people, will be tested like never before!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 22, 2017
The Chinese Envoy, who just returned from North Korea, seems to have had no impact on Little Rocket Man. Hard to believe his people, and the military, put up with living in such horrible conditions. Russia and China condemned the launch.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 30, 2017
On Good Morning America today Jon Karl interviewed the Vice President asking how both he and Trump have so dramatically changed their tune on a man Mike Pence once called “one of the most brutal dictators on the planet.”
"We are seeing hopeful signs from Kim Jong Un…" @VP Pence sits down one-on-one with @jonkarl to discuss the release of three U.S. prisoners detained in North Korea ahead of President Trump's high-stakes summit: https://t.co/hfI4SyTIZt pic.twitter.com/xzeqsboghK
— Good Morning America (@GMA) May 10, 2018