Fox News didn't always think a U.S. president meeting with Kim Jong Un was a great idea

Fox News hosts slam Obama, laud Trump for meeting with Kim Jong Un
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On Monday night's Hannity, Fox News host Sean Hannity compared President Trump's summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to former President Ronald Reagan's historic 1986 summit with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. On her follow-up show, Laura Ingraham argued that "the elites on the left want this president to fail," and "if you have to have nuclear war to get Trump to fail, I think half of them are okay with that. I'm not exaggerating.” But Now This News probably didn't have to look all that hard to find clips of Hannity, Ingraham, and other conservatives on Fox News slamming former President Barack Obama for saying he would consider meeting with Kim and other despots without preconditions, to advance the cause of peace. Watch below. Peter Weber

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Peter Weber, The Week US

Peter has worked as a news and culture writer and editor at The Week since the site's launch in 2008. He covers politics, world affairs, religion and cultural currents. His journalism career began as a copy editor at a financial newswire and has included editorial positions at The New York Times Magazine, Facts on File, and Oregon State University.