What did the president say and how did he say it?

That's the query in the back of the modern-day episode that has President Trump leveling accusations of "faux news" in opposition to a information outlet, this time the Wall Street Journal.




In an interview published Friday, the newspaper quoted Trump as pronouncing, "I probably have a superb courting with Kim Jong Un of North Korea," the u . S .'s chief.

Trump says he said "I'd" — a contraction for "could" — that modifications the which means of what he said. In the Wall Street Journal version, Trump and Kim are pleasant. In Trump's model, the sort of dating is probably possible underneath some other situation.

The difference is not any small rely. Based on its version of Trump's quote, the Journal suggested that "Trump stated he believes he has evolved a tremendous relationship with North Korea’s leader no matter their mutual public insults, suggesting he's open to diplomacy after months of escalating tensions over Pyongyang’s nuclear-weapons program."