He said the North should meet conditions for the summit to proceed however in the event that it didn't, it may happen "later".
Mr Trump was talking as he got South Korea's President Moon Jae-in at the White House.
The North has said it might drop the summit if the US demands it surrendering atomic weapons singularly.
Mr Trump did not state what conditions the US had set for the summit yet, got some information about the North's arms stockpile, he said "denuclearisation must happen".
The 12 June summit is because of happen in Singapore. It takes after a noteworthy gathering between the two Korean pioneers in April.
Then, North Korea has consented to let in writers from the South to watch the disassembling of its atomic test site. The gathering, who had prior been denied visas, will join a group of worldwide media who are in the nation to visit Punggye-ri throughout the following couple of days.
The destruction of the site has been charged as a generosity motion yet might be postponed by awful climate.
What did Trump say in regards to the summit?
Mr Trump told correspondents: "We'll see what happens.
"There are sure conditions that we need and I think we'll get those conditions and in the event that we don't we don't have the gathering.
"You go into bargains that are 100% sure - it doesn't occur. You go into bargains that have no way and it happens and, now and again, happens effortlessly."
He additionally said Kim Jong-un's state of mind had changed after his second visit to China, prior this month.
Later in the day, amid a news gathering, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo embraced a more inspirational position, saying the US was all the while working towards the 12 June date.
He complimented China for offering "memorable help" in putting weight on North Korea.
With Kim Jong-un tapping the brakes and declining to acknowledge "one-sided requests" to incapacitate, President Trump additionally made a stride back. He set his own conditions, despite the fact that he didn't state what they were.
He stressed that it would be justified, despite all the trouble for the North Korean pioneer to hazard denuclearisation, tossing the ball again into Mr Kim's court.
The development to the summit has been formed by a bizarre level of open ability to entertain by the two pioneers, a conciliatory variant of their antagonistic trades a year ago. In any case, while the dangers and affront worked at the expository level, this is about substantive issues where the detail matters.
President Moon Jae-in additionally has his turn. He truly needs to grab this open door for South Korea's purpose and keeps on being resolved in his hopefulness, abandoning some here pondering whether he's been exaggerating Kim Jong-un's readiness to bargain.
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