Can they be friends? ‘Lunatic’ Donald Trump tweets about ‘short and fat’ Kim after North Korea hurls insult
Trump says North Korea’s leader insulted him by calling him an ‘old lunatic’
US President Donald Trump said it was “certainly a possibility” that he could become friends with Kim Jong-un, hours after insulting the North Korean leader on Twitter.
“Certainly, it is something that could happen,” Trump said Sunday in Hanoi, Vietnam, when asked about the possibility of becoming friends with Kim.
“I don’t know that it will, but it would be very, very nice if it did.”
In a response to North Korea calling Trump’s speech in South Korea “reckless remarks by an old lunatic,” Trump earlier tweeted: “Why would Kim Jong-un insult me by calling me ‘old,’ when I would NEVER call him ‘short and fat?’”
Trump goes on to say sarcastically: “Oh well, I try so hard to be his friend - and maybe someday that will happen!”
Trump has been working to rally global pressure against North Korea’s nuclear weapons programme on a trip to Asia.