Trump smiles, winks when asked about ‘calm before the storm’ remark
President Trump grinned and winked on Friday when asked to explain his comment the night before that the US could be in “the calm before the storm.”
“You’ll find out,” Trump said at a White House event, repeating the answer he gave Thursday night when asked the same question as he posed with military brass at the White House.
Administration spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders shed little light on the president’s remark — though she did say it was a “general comment” and that Trump “didn’t talk any specific actions at all” but was being purposely vague. Asked if Trump’s comment meant that the US was done trying to talk with North Korea — something the president called “a waste of time” on Twitter — Sanders said the administration was still using sanctions and diplomacy to calm the crisis over the rogue country’s nuclear-weapons program.
But she added, “We have a lot of bad actors in the world, North Korea, Iran, several examples there.”