Salt Lake Tribune · Jan 30, 2019
Trump claims great progress on ISIS, North Korea after intelligence officials present less optimistic view
(Jacquelyn Martin | The Associated Press) President Donald Trump waves as he walks through the Colonnade from the Oval Office of the White House on arrival to announce a deal to temporarily reopen the government, Friday, Jan. 25, 2019, from the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. Washington • President Donald Trump on Wednesday claimed “tremendous progress” in destroying the Islamic State and denuclearizing North Korea, a day after U.S. intelligence chiefs offered congressional testimony at odds with his rosy assessments on multiple global threats.
In his tweets, Trump wrote that when he became president, the Islamic State “was out of control in Syria & running rampant.”