She began by recounting a debate with the president on his planned remarks before the UN General Assembly in September 2017. When she learned that Trump planned to denigrate the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un as “Rocket Man,” she said she urged him to remove the line.
“I told the president, ‘This is the UN; it’s a little more formal of a setting than a campaign rally,’” Haley remembered, holding back laughter. But Trump insisted that he liked the ring of the insult, she said.
“So I said, ‘Okay, Mr. President, you’re the boss,’” Haley recalled. She said that during a meeting with the president of Uganda, Yoweri Museveni, a few hours after Trump’s tirade, the African leader casually referred to Kim as “Rocket Man.” The exchange was clear proof in her mind of Trump’s masterful salesmanship.
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I said to the Russians, ‘Either you’re with North Korea, or you’re with the United States of America,’” Haley recalled. She said she went to the Chinese ambassador and raised the prospect of an American military invasion of North Korea. “My boss is kind of unpredictable, and I don’t know what he’ll do,” she said she warned her Chinese counterpart
“I tell the president, ‘I do this all the time,’” Haley assured the crowd. “And he totally gets it.”
https://harpers.org/blog/2018/10/nikki-haley-at-the-council-for-national-policy/
Interesting. Thanks for that. My personal opinion - she should keep some of the inside stories hidden until after Trump leave office, or at least until much more time has lapsed. We are still trying to get NK & China on board. It is too early to divulge any negotiating strategies or other details.
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