Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer slammed the meeting between President Donald Trump and North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un which he described as a “reality show foreign policy”.
“This was one of the worst few days in American foreign policy and American diplomatic history in a long time,” Schumer said Monday in an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper.
Nevertheless, the meeting will go down in history as Trump has become the first sitting president of the United States to visit North Korea.
Still, Schumer criticized the President for referring to Kim as a “friend” while the country is not making any concessions on nuclear power.
“They have more nuclear bombs than they’ve had in the past. They are a danger to the United States and he pats the guy on the back and gets nothing in return,” Schumer said, as reported by The Hill.
Schumer said Trump used to criticize past presidents for being unable to denuclearize North Korea, but said Trump’s “erratic” policies are even more detrimental to the U.S.
“It’s reality show foreign policy. He wants that photo op, he wants that little hit,” Schumer said. “He had no strategic, long range sense of where to go or what to do, and if anyone thinks this doesn’t hurt America in the short term and the long run They’re sadly mistaken.”
Schumer’s remarks echo comments Democrats seeking the 2020 nomination made Sunday, panning the President’s North Korea visit.
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