Iran and North Korea are named in four reviewed force threats from 2017 to 2020
Two distinct states in a specified four-statement record set, not a worldwide census of every Trump threat.
Entities and roles
- Donald J. TrumpSpeaker of the four reviewed statements
Claims and evidence
- analysisdocumented
The reviewed set contains two North Korea statements, dated August 8 and September 19, 2017, and two Iran statements, dated January 4 and April 22, 2020. Deduplicating their named state targets gives two states: North Korea and Iran.
- The White House: Remarks by President Trump Before a Briefing on the Opioid CrisisAugust 8, 2017: North Korea statement
- Reuters: Trump instructs U.S. Navy to destroy Iranian gunboats if they harass U.S. shipsApril 22, 2020 directive concerning Iranian gunboats
- U.S. Government Publishing Office: U.S.-Iran Tensions: Implications for Homeland Security, hearing before the House Committee on Homeland SecurityJanuary 4, 2020 statement reproduced in the congressional record
- The White House: Remarks by President Trump to the 72nd Session of the United Nations General AssemblySeptember 19, 2017: North Korea statement
Measurements
Distinct states in four reviewed threats2 states - Basis
- Observed
- Population
- Iran and North Korea in the four statements identified in this entry, August 2017 through April 2020
- Period
- 2017-08-08 to 2020-04-22
- As of
- 2020-04-22
- Method
- Deduplicate the two North Korea statements and two Iran statements by named sovereign state. Count each state once; do not sum later census updates.
- Uncertainty
- Bounded reviewed record set, not all threats during either presidency. No other state is represented as unthreatened.