Thomson Reuters
- President Donald Trump showed his sense of humour at the annual Gridiron Club dinner with journalists on Saturday night.
- It was the first press dinner Trump has attended since becoming president.
- In a joke-filled speech, Trump said he will meet with North Korea but they will have to “denuke” first.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – In the midst of a joke-filled monologue at a dinner with journalists, President Donald Trump suggested on Saturday that the United States will be meeting with North Korea but has told Pyongyang it must first “denuke.”
“Now we are talking and they, by the way, called up a couple of days ago. They said that ‘we would like to talk.’ And I said ‘So would we, but you have to denuke, you have to denuke,'” Trump told attendees at the annual Gridiron Club dinner.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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