Trump Speaks On North Korea, Obamacare, Puerto Rico, Others
…Says, North Korea ‘should have been handled 25 years ago’
…Slams Republican lawmakers on Obamacare
Donald Trump said in an interview that aired Saturday night that tensions between the United States and North Korea over Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons program is an issue he should not have had to deal with.
“This should have been handled 25 years ago,” Trump told former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee on his TBN show “Huckabee.”
“This should have been handled 10 years ago. It should have been handled during the Obama administration. The truth is, Mike, I was handed a mess. Not only there, I was handed a mess in the Middle East. Just a total mess.”
In an extensive interview with Huckabee, who is the father of Trump’s press secretary Sarah Sanders, he discussed North Korea, the Iran deal, health care, the vegas shooting and his administration’s response in Puerto Rico.
Trump wouldn’t say if the US was planning to get rid of the Iran nuclear deal.
Two senior US officials told CNN this week that Trump plans to “decertify” the deal soon, declaring the Obama-era pact not in US interests and launching a congressional review period on the accord.
“In a few days from now, a week and a half to be exact, you’ll see exactly,” Trump told Huckabee.
“But I can tell you I’m very unhappy with the deal. I’m very unhappy with their attitude. … Iran is a bad player. And they’re going to be taken care of as a bad player.”
Of the Las Vegas shooter, Trump said “This was a sick person, but probably smart,” citing the cameras he set up to watch the response.
On domestic issues, Trump expressed dissatisfaction with Republican lawmakers over their inability to pass a bill to repeal and replace Obamacare.
“I’m very disappointed with a few people,” Trump said. “I thought that when I got to the Oval Office I’d have a bill sitting on my desk … but it didn’t happen.”
He also predicted that his tax reform plan will be successful if it gets passed. “This is something that is going to work so easily” he said. “So basically, these people, we’re the highest-taxed nation in the world. These incredible people we have are treated unfairly.
The companies in our country are treated unfairly and frankly, they’re leaving. They leave. They’re starting to come back with me.”
He continued: “We’re going to have more money to spend. It’s like handing people money.”
On Puerto Rico, Trump continued to slam San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz. “We have the mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico, who didn’t attend meetings, who didn’t work with FEMA, who really did not do a very good job, in fact, did a very poor job,” Trump said in his interview with Huckabee.
“And she was the lone voice that we saw. And of course that’s the only voice the media wanted to talk to.”
