Bolton, pg 82: "On Monday morning, Trump called me about my appearances on two of the Sunday talk shows.. I had been 'very good on television,' he said, but I needed to praise him more because 'there's never been anything like this before'.. Trump said however, that he didn't" 1/ https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1273620779645665280

"..like my reference to the 'Libya model' for denuclearizing North Korea bc of Muammar Qaddafi's overthrow seven yrs later during the completely unrelated Middle East Arab Spring. I tried explaining that the 'model' for nonproliferation analysts was completely removing Libya's"2/

"..nuclear program, not Qaddafi's subsequent unpredictable demise. History showed that I didn't get through. ... Nonetheless, Trump ended the conversation by saying, 'Great job.'" 3/3