{"id":75418,"date":"2019-02-27T09:48:28","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T17:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.46.6.243\/?p=75418"},"modified":"2019-02-27T09:53:14","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T17:53:14","slug":"president-trump-and-president-nguyen-phu-trong-of-the-socialist-republic-of-vietnam-before-expanded-bilateral-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=75418","title":{"rendered":"President Trump and Prime Minister Nguy\u1ec5n Xu\u00e2n Ph\u00fac of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam Before an Expanded Working Lunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hanoi, Vietnam&#8230;PRIME MINISTER PH\u00daC:  (As interpreted.)  Mr. President, on behalf of the government, we greatly appreciate the process of denuclearization and peace building in North Korea that Mr. President was so resolute in these efforts.  And thank you very much for choosing Vietnam as the venue for the second summit.  We\u2019ve been working very closely with the United States and the DPKR to promote this meeting to be a successful one, from our own capacity.  And congratulations on the very strong leadership in terms of the economic performance, (inaudible).<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/d1PxhjNfuo8\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And this is a great achievement in terms of the economy.  The United States is the superpower.  And as the U.S. economy grows, others will grow too, including Vietnam.  Congratulations on your economic performance, Mr. President.<\/p>\n<p>And I also welcome the results of the talks between our (inaudible) General and President Nguy\u1ec5n Ph\u00fa Tr\u1ecdng and Mr. President.  And the main message is that we will continue to promote bilateral cooperation, especially in trade.<\/p>\n<p>PRESIDENT TRUMP:  Thank you very much, Mr. Prime Minister.  The trip has been beautiful.  We have a very big meeting planned tonight, as you know, with North Korea and Chairman Kim.  And I think it may very well turn out to be very successful.  It helps that it\u2019s in Vietnam because you\u2019ve shown something that the world is really getting to see the incredible job that you\u2019ve done in Vietnam in a very short period of time.<\/p>\n<p>Coming in from the airport, seeing everything that\u2019s been happening and been built, even since last year when we were spending time together \u2014 my second trip.  You\u2019ve made tremendous progress and it\u2019s a great thing for the world to see.  And now the world is actually watching and they\u2019re looking at Vietnam.<\/p>\n<p>So I look forward to the meeting tonight with Chairman Kim, and hopefully it\u2019s going to be successful.  We\u2019ll see what happens.  But he wants to do something great also, and I think he wants to do something that would be on a par.  If you look at what you\u2019ve done in a short time, he can do it in a very, very rapid time and make North Korea into a great economic power.<\/p>\n<p>But I really appreciate the orders that you made today of Boeing and General Electric, and the various other companies that will be selling you aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>I also appreciate the fact that you\u2019re looking at much of our military equipment.  We make the best military equipment in the world, by far.  Whether it\u2019s jet fighters or missiles or rockets, or anything you want to name, we make \u2014 we\u2019re acknowledged to have made \u2014 we make the best.  So I appreciate you looking at that very strongly, and I know that\u2019s a decision you\u2019ll make.<\/p>\n<p>And we appreciate very much that you\u2019re reducing the trade deficit with the United States, which was very substantial before I got here.  And now we\u2019re bringing it down with great orders like the orders that you made today.  And we very much appreciate it.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s an honor to be with you a second time.  And we\u2019re now friends.  I love that you showed me the autograph.  That was very nice.  And that\u2019s the way I feel.  And congratulations on the tremendous work that you\u2019ve done over a short period of time.  It\u2019s so obvious to anybody that looks.  Congratulations to all of Vietnam.  Thank you.<\/p>\n<p>PRIME MINISTER PH\u00daC:  (As interpreted.)  Thank you very much for your very kind words about Vietnam\u2019s success in the past years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hanoi, Vietnam&#8230;PRIME MINISTER PH\u00daC: (As interpreted.) Mr. President, on behalf of the government, we greatly appreciate the process of denuclearization and peace building in North Korea that Mr. President was so resolute in these efforts. And thank you very much for choosing Vietnam as the venue for the second summit. 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