2016 ELECTION/NORTH KOREA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “And whatever happened to the word ‘North Korea’? You haven’t seen that, have you? If I didn’t win the election in 2016, our country would now be — maybe it would be over by now, but in war with North Korea. Everybody said, ‘Oh, Trump will get us in war.’ No, just the opposite.
And we actually have a relationship with North Korea, which is something that — it was never established by the previous administration. You would have been in war with North Korea, and it would have been a very bad war.”
-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in Press Briefing | Bedminster, NJ,” whitehouse.gov, Aug. 8, 2020