President Donald Trump repeated comments made by a conservative author on “Fox & Friends” | Getty Trump: Obama's foreign policy a 'total failure'

As tensions between the United States and North Korea continue to escalate, President Donald Trump on Monday again criticized the previous administration, tweeting that President Barack Obama’s foreign policy was a “total failure.”

"The first 90 days of my presidency has exposed the total failure of the last eight years of foreign policy!" So true. @foxandfriends,” Trump tweeted Monday morning.


Trump’s comments, which misquoted a segment on Monday’s “Fox & Friends,” come as North Korea has ratcheted up its rhetoric against the U.S. North Korea's vice foreign minister said his country is ready to go to war with the United States if that’s what Trump wants, and over the weekend conducted a failed missile test. Trump's comments also follow his missile strike in Syria and the use of the second-largest non-nuclear bomb, dubbed the "mother of all bombs" in Afghanistan.

Trump’s tweet referenced the 7 a.m. hour of the Fox News’ morning show, a Trump staple. In it, conservative author Michael Knowles said, “It is unbelievable how within the first 100 days of this presidency, we have exposed the total failure of the last eight years of foreign policy.” That comment came in response to a question posed by Fox & Friends host Brian Kilmeade, who asked whether the last eight years “are being exposed.”

In a subsequent tweet, Trump stumped for the conservative author’s new book, which Fox & Friends and Knowles were promoting on-air.

A few minutes later, Trump tweeted again to criticize the "Fake Media."

“The Fake Media (not Real Media) has gotten even worse since the election,” he said. “Every story is badly slanted. We have to hold them to the truth!”

That tweet came a few minutes after Fox & Friends ran a segment in which host Ainsley Earhardt suggested that media coverage of anti-Trump protests over the weekend “showed the media’s agenda.”