In the wrong direction…
Trudeau’s fault…
In other words, we’re just trying to get him the hell out of there before it all falls apart in public. Kim gets his photo op, then we declare victory and go home.
He’s so desperate for a “win” he’s declaring progress before the summit takes place. Has no one in the White House ever heard the phrase “under-promise, then over-deliver”? That goes x10 for international summits.
Likely due to the fact that he will be missing his normal meals… here is a helpful map for the dotard
Donny is now saying it will only take him a minute to size up Kim. Yep, Donny will look into Kim’s eyes and read his soul.
Sadly, neither of them has a soul.
All they both want is the photo and a promise to meet again to discuss…(whatever). That’s it.
Likely his handlers want Trump out of there as soon as possible before he starts yapping.
Mr. Stamina is known to get tired when he travels. They may also have finally persuaded him that he’s not going to get the grand slam—complete, verifiable, irreversible dismantlement—in this first inning or probably ever. So it’s door number 2—go trailing on home and describe it any way you feel like, knowing in the miserable inner depths of your psyche you got played again like you always do.
A transcript:
*"Chairman Un , do you want a bigly kompromat?"
.* [sic]
Shot down in spectacular fashion on two continents within three days…
That’s gonna leave a mark…
Obama’s fault…
Donald Trump makes very huge, very big deals. Unfortunately, they result in the other guy getting everything he wants and the United States getting nothing.
Gosh, who aside from 60-odd million voters could have possibly predicted this?
President Donald Trump plans to depart early from his unprecedented summit with Kim Jong Un, the White House said Monday, declaring that nuclear talks with North Korea have moved “more quickly than expected.”
Psst. Pro-tip. There’s a 95% probability that he and the White House (same thing) are lying. BTW, I’m eagerly awaiting the obligatory joint communique that Trump can subsequently contravene from the safe confines of AF1
There’s clearly very little going on. Trump is also not getting the max value out of this summit after blowing up the G7 and DeNiro getting a few hours in the spotlight. Time zone inefficiencies also aren’t helping Trump to sell it. I heard Kim was planning to leave at 2pm local time Tuesday (Monday evening our time) and Trump is probably aligning his schedule to not make it look like he is being stood up.
For me, the summit already lost any substantive value when it was revealed that there is no real push on nuclear weapons. I would like to see this summit be quickly forgotten b/c Trump is only doing it to boost his poll ratings, not for any substantive reasons. He caused deep fissures in our alliances that our allies are unwilling to paper over. That’s a big problem for him and the United States as a whole.
Donald is selling out, South Korea must be nervous
Washington is prepared to offer North Korea unprecedented security guarantees, the US secretary of state has said in Singapore on the eve of the summit between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un.
Mike Pompeo did not specify what security assurances Trump would offer Kim but made clear they would go even further than a 2005 agreement in which the US pledged not to attack North Korea with nuclear or conventional weapons.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/11/trump-kim-summit-north-korea-hails-new-era-of-relations-with-the-us
It’s only about the photo op. Wouldn’t it have been easier to just Photoshop the two shaking hands instead of all this travel?
They could make Trump look slimmer and Kim taller.
…as they stand looking elegant in their fashionable and tasteful A-line print dresses.
So out with it, Kim. How does this dictator thing work so well for you? I’m like only spending a third of my time at the golf course, then it’s Kelly this or Melania that. And I had to let my idiot children run the business. You have kids? My people love me of course, except the Californians. Did you know Pelosi was Californian, or am I getting into the weeds on this? And parades, you have such great parades.
Tres triste.
He is going into this with little or no preparations by his incompetent staff and probably cutting out any State Department officials who have some idea of what he is up against in getting Un to play nice. In any case, any briefings would just go over his head or through his ears. What could go wrong? Everything. Un is probably using this meeting to get some more leverage with the Chinese. Spanky is going to get played big time by Un, who is not going to give up anything, particularly his nucs, and I hope the press points that out.
Going into the meeting with one translator each. What could go wrong?
https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1005855172290113536
No leaking that way.