The tweet came in the form of a video, which starts out with a clip of then-President Bill Clinton announcing a 1994 deal with the North Korean regime that was meant to halt their nuclear weapons program in exchange for aid from the United States. “This is a good deal for the United States,” Clinton says in the clip. “North Korea will freeze and then dismantle its nuclear program.”

The former president added that South Korea and other allies of the US would be better protected because of the deal, and that “the entire world will be safer” as the world’s arsenal of nuclear weapons is decreased.

Next is a clip of Donald Trump from 18 years ago, where he says during an interview on Meet the Press, “The biggest problem this world has is nuclear proliferation. And we have a country out there, North Korea, which is sort of whacko… and they are going out and they are developing nuclear weapons.”

Trump then posed the following question regarding taking military action against North Korea: “Do you want to do it in five years when they have warheads all over the place, every one of them pointing to New York City, to Washington… ?” He concludes by stating that it’s “better to do it now” rather than to wait for the North Korean regime to grow stronger.

If you fast-forward to today, then it becomes obvious that the warning Trump issued in that interview on Meet the Press was almost prophetic. We haven’t dealt with North Korea properly, and as a result, the regime now has nuclear missiles that they can use against the United States and our allies.

If people didn’t listen to Donald Trump 18 years ago, then perhaps now, with North Korea developing ballistic missiles capable of reaching the United States, they will start to do just that. Indeed, when it comes to Kim Jong-Un and his regime, military action is starting to become not just a possibility, but a necessity.