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Gail Collins: Is Trump, um, slipping even more?

My favorite moment in Donald Trump’s trip to France came when our president was doing a little riff about North Korea and Kim Jong Un. Not only had he come to know Kim well, Trump told reporters, “the first lady has gotten to know Kim Jong Un, and I think she’d agree with me, he is a man with a country that has tremendous potential.”

“President Trump confides in his wife on many issues including the detailed elements of his strong relationship with Chairman Kim,” his press secretary, Stephanie Grisham, explained. “And while the first lady hasn’t met him, the president feels like she’s gotten to know him too.