President Donald Trump welcomed Lee Jae Myung, the new president of South Korea, to the White House on Monday afternoon with a social media post that claimed a “Purge or Revolution” was taking place in South Korea and threatened not to do business with Seoul.

Trump later told reporters in the Oval Office that he was referring to raids on churches and on a U.S. military base by the new South Korean government, which they “probably shouldn’t have done,” the president argued.

Before Trump’s post, the first in-person meeting between him and the liberal Lee had been expected to help flesh out details of a July trade deal between the two countries that has Seoul investing hundreds of billions of dollars in the U.S. The agreement set tariffs on South Korean goods at 15% after Trump threatened r

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