Trump's tweets also focused on North Korea and its nuclear weapons ambitions that have been a dominant theme on each leg of his Asia tour.
US President Donald Trump unleashed atwitter storm from his Asia tour on Sunday, slamming "haters and fools" who question his efforts to improve ties with Russia and taking a sarcastic dig at North Korea's "short and fat" leader Kim Jong-Un.
Currently on the Vietnam leg of a five-nation sweep through the region, the US president, who has been relatively quiet on Twitter since leaving Washington, put out half a dozen tweets in quick succession ahead of his official welcoming ceremony in Hanoi.
The missives covered a range of targets and subjects -- from the critics of his desire for a close relationship with RussianPresidentVladimir Putin to China's efforts to rein inPyongyang's nuclear weapons programme.
And they ended with a tongue-in-cheek tweet about his efforts to make "a friend" of North Korea's Kim.
"When will all the haters and fools out there realise that having a good relationship with Russia is a good thing, not a bad thing," wrote the US president, who met with Putin several times on the margins of the just concluded APEC summit in the Vietnamese resort of Danang.
"He (Putin) said he didn't meddle. I asked him again," Trump said. "I really believe that when he tells me that, he means it."
In May, US intelligence chiefs told Congress they agreed with their analysts' conclusion that Russia had meddled in the election.
And in January, 17 US intelligence agencies took the extraordinary step of stating publicly that they believed Russia did try to interfere.
In a statement to CNN after Trump's remarks on Air Force One, CIA director Mike Pompeo, who was appointed by Trump, said he still believed in that evaluation.
Immediately after his Twitter tirade on Sunday, Trump was greeted by a guard of honour and flag-waving schoolchildren at a damp welcoming ceremony at the Presidential Palace in Hanoi's historic French quarter.
President Xi of China has stated that he is upping the sanctions against (North Korea). Said he wants them to denuclearise. Progress is being made," he wrote.
The US administration thinks China's economic leverage over North Korea is the key to strong-arming Pyongyang into halting its nuclear weapons and missile programmes.
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