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Donald Trump: You can never show weakness; you've got to project strength

In a tweet on September 23, Trump called [North Korean President] Kim "Little rocket Man". Trump was in the president's front cabin on Air Force One; Fox News was on the TV. "Little Rocket Man", Trump said proudly. "I think that may be my best nickname ever."

"It's funny," [said one advisor], "and it certainly seems to have gotten under Kim's skin." But, he asked, "What's the end game here if we continue to amp up the rhetoric and get into a war of words and it escalates, what are you hoping to get out of this? How does this end?"

"You can never show weakness," Trump replied. "You've got to project strength. Kim and others need to be convinced that I'm prepared to do anything to back up our interests."

Source: Fear: Trump in the White House, by Bob Woodward, p.281 Sep 10, 2019

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