Following North Korea’s Friday launch of a second
ballistic missile in less than a month, President Trump
said he wasn’t
worried about a possible nuclear threat from the belligerent regime. “We’ll
handle North Korea,” Trump told reporters assembled for a meeting of his
Cabinet. “We’re going to be able to handle them. It will be handled.”
The president offered no specifics about how he would
“handle” North Korea.
The missile launch Friday raised concerns about North
Korea’s ability to hit the U.S. mainland. Analysts now say that
much of the country, from Los Angeles to Chicago, may be in range of North
Korean missiles.
Trump responded to the launch on Twitter Saturday,
criticizing the Chinese government for failing to help ease tensions between
the U.S. and North Korea.
“I am very disappointed in China,” Trump wrote. “Our foolish
past leaders have allowed them to make hundreds of billions of dollars a year
in trade, yet they do NOTHING for us with North Korea, just talk. We will no
longer allow this to continue.”
The president didn’t say what actions he would take to force
China to do his bidding.
The Monday Cabinet meeting was the second of Trump’s
presidency. Trump welcomed former Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly as
his new White House chief of staff. “At Homeland, what he has done has been
nothing short of miraculous,” Trump said. “As you know, the border was a
tremendous problem, and they’re close to 80 percent stoppage.”
The president said Kelly “will go down, in terms of the
position of chief of staff, one of the greatest ever.” Trump made a similar
prediction in January about Kelly’s predecessor, Reince Priebus, who, he said,
“will
be a great asset to my team in the White House. I hope he will be with me
for a long time to come.”
Last week, newly appointed White House communications
director Anthony Scaramucci had exploded in an expletive-filled
tirade against Priebus and White House chief strategist Steve Bannon.
Priebus resigned last Thursday. Scaramucci resigned Monday.
On Monday, Trump denied that his administration was in the
midst of a turbulent time, touting its accomplishments instead.
“Highest Stock Market EVER, best economic numbers in years,
unemployment lowest in 17 years, wages raising, border secure … ” the president
wrote. “No WH chaos!”
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