White House manages expectations for the summit

White House manages expectations for the summit

Senior White House staffers and the president himself have tried to lower expectations for this second summit, after North Korea showed little tangible progress towards denuclearization since last year's meeting in Singapore.

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders told Fox News that only the media have high expectations for the summit, because they want to see the president fail.

"I think that the only one setting high expectations is probably the media because they're looking for reasons to attack this president," Sanders told Fox News last Friday. "They hate the idea that he's done so well on something his predecessors couldn't do anything on."

Mr. Trump has taken a wait-and-see approach to the summit. He told the governors at the White House Sunday that he believes he and Kim "see eye to eye, I believe, but you'll be seeing it more and more over the next couple of days one way or the other."