Trump pitches Yankees game outing with Kim Jong Un at Michigan rally

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Can America’s favorite pastime help smooth over U.S. relations with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un? Former President Trump joked over the weekend that it might help. 

During a rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on Saturday, Trump defended the close relationships he developed with adversarial world leaders like the North Korean dictator during his presidency. 

Former President Trump, speaks during the final day of the Republican National Convention, Thursday, July 18, 2024, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

"A lot of them didn't like what I was doing to them, but they also knew it was about time. The jig was up, right? It was about time," Trump said at the rally, which took place just a week after he survived an assassination attempt at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. 

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"I have a good relationship with all of them," Trump continued. "That's a good thing. You know, a lot of times the press would say, 'He gets along with Kim Jong Un. North Korea has a lot of nuclear weapons.' I got along with them great. You were never in danger with me as your president. It's a good thing to get along, not a bad thing." 

Trump then joked that to combat Kim Jong Un’s obsession with nuclear weapons, he proposed a hypothetical baseball outing featuring the New York Yankees. 

President Trump meets North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, in Hanoi on Feb. 27, 2019. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

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"I used to tell them, why don't you do something else? All he wants to do is buy nuclear weapons and make them. I said