Excerpted From The Hill: President Trump said predecessors including Presidents Clinton and Obama were “outplayed” by North Korea and that he won’t be broadcasting his plans to deal with the isolated and increasingly aggressive country.
When asked in an interview set to air on “Fox & Friends” Tuesday if a preemptive military strike is a possibility, as reported last week by NBC News, Trump wouldn’t elaborate.
“I don’t want to telegraph what I’m doing or what I’m thinking. I’m not like other administrations, where they say we’re going to do this in four weeks,” Trump told Fox’s Ainsley Earhardt on Monday during the White House Easter Egg Roll.
“It doesn’t work that way. We’ll see what happens. I hope things work out well. I hope there’s going to be peace, but they’ve been talking with this gentleman for a long time,” he continued.
“You read [former President Bill] Clinton’s book and he said, ‘Oh, we made such a great peace deal’ and it was a joke,” Trump said. “You look at different things over the years with President Obama. Everybody has been outplayed. Keep reading
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