Overview
- Speaking at the White House on Monday, the president repeated a slur he attributed to North Korea’s Kim Jong Un about Joe Biden.
- The remark came during an update on the U.S. and Israel’s war on Iran, where he chastised allies and cited 45,000 U.S. troops in South Korea.
- He said he gets along with Kim “very well” and claimed Kim had “said very nice things” about him.
- Reporters at the event said he used the slur twice, while no public record shows Kim using that specific phrase about Biden.
- Coverage split along partisan lines, with left-leaning outlets questioning his focus and right-leaning sites applauding or joking about the jab.