Trump praises putin and kim jong-un as ‘tough’ and ‘smart’ on tv

The President made the comments during an appearance on Carlson Tucker’s Fox News show. He phoned in for the interview, which lasted around half an hour, from the White House. During the

discussion Mr Trump described claims he’d insulted dead American soldiers as “total disinformation” and claimed his coronavirus response helped save at least two million lives. The President

delivered the warm words for the Russian, Chinese and North Korean dictators during an attack on the integrity of US journalists. He argued, without providing evidence, that reporters had

been giving his Democratic Presidential rival Joe Biden advanced copies of questions they planned to ask. Mr Trump also claimed, again without proof, that Mr Biden had been reading answers

to journalists’ questions from an autocue. The President commented: “Putin, Xi and Kim Jong-un - much tougher, much smarter, than reporters.” Referring to Mr Biden he added: “It would look

to me like they gave him the questions and he’s reading the answers. “Its obvious Joe Biden is reading answers.” Currently Mr Trump is trailing his Democrat rival in national opinion polls.

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declaration on March 13. However, his record has been sharply criticised by rivals such as Democrat nominee Mr Biden. On Wednesday Mr Biden tweeted: “If Donald Trump had acted just two weeks

earlier, 54,000 lives could have been spared in March and April alone. “Instead, he downplayed the threat and refused to take action — costing lives and sending our economy into a tailspin.

“It’s an unjustifiable dereliction of duty.” Mr Trump also used the interview to respond to allegations published in The Atlantic that he’d described American troops killed in WWI as

“losers” and “suckers”. According to The Atlantic multiple sources claim Mr Trump made the comments in 2018 after deciding he didn’t want to visit a US military ceremony in France. However,

on Mr Carlson’s show the president hit back describing the claims as “total disinformation”. He added: “The secret service wouldn’t let me take the trip. “It was foggy like you couldn’t see

anything.”