Despite no progress, Trump, senior aides spin North Korea summit as a success

[DonViejo]

But their explanations have changed and at times conflict.

By Conor Finnegan 45m ago

In the immediate aftermath of his meetings with North Korea's Kim Jong Un, President Donald Trump said the talks collapsed over sanctions: "It was about the sanctions ... They wanted the sanctions lifted in their entirety, and we couldn't do that," he said in a press conference Thursday.

But in the days since his brief time in Vietnam, Trump and his top advisers have offered various explanations for what happened in Hanoi and why he and Kim could not reach a deal, with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and National Security Adviser John Bolton at times undermining Trump's claims.

Spinning the differences on what happened

Their statements have also at times contradicted North Korea's, and with no plans yet for another summit or even more working-level negotiations, the future of talks is up in the air.

In particular, Trump said that North Korea wanted all sanctions lifted "in their entirety." But the North Koreans said they want only five out of 11 rounds of United Nations Security Council sanctions lifted, those that target their exports and imports including coal, oil, seafood, and more.

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[Arkansas Granny]

1. Trump lives in a fantasy world. He thinks his Presidency is nothing more than high stakes reality

tv and he's writing the script. His toadies will say anything he wants them to say.

[real Cannabis calm]

2. they are a bunch of liars

[Stuart G]

3. That is who they are, and that is who they will always be: "...a bunch of liars"

[Thomas Hurt]

4. Trump takes credit for others work or pre-existing conditions....

status quo is a miracle that he brought to fruition. Near as I can Trump gave up military readiness exercises for nothing and everything is as has been for decades, NK is intransigent.

[Mc Mike]

5. He deserves a Nobel.

[SWBTATTReg]

6. These idiots can't even get their own stories straight. Sounds like they are more of a danger...

to this country then anyone else is currently.

Nice way to show us and the world just how competent they are!!

Idiots.

[duforsure]

7. When they try to make it sound like a success,

Just look back at all the facts. Kim tested his delivery system so much after trump entered office , he no longer needs to test anymore on it, and has built more bombs, and has more missile launching sites , and while they're producing more bombs. Putin is not rejected the treaty and working to increase his weapons stockpile and test more weapons systems now, and trump and his people want us to believe we;re safer now, which is nothing but trump BS, nothing more. Add to that trump's allowed putin's hackers to continue to attack us and probe our infrastructure systems, and now Kim is going that too, so trump has put us in grave danger , not made us safer .