This will be in casebooks forever. Psychiatric casebooks, about the global impact of untreated mental illness.
Anyone wanna place a bet on whether Trump asks Kim if he can build a hotel or a golf course there?
Korean proverb: Beginning is half the task.
Corollary: Proceeding wisely is the other 90%.
there is always a counter tweet for the dotard
Kim Jong Un calls Trump to a meeting. Without talking with State, without being discussed at Defense (although Mattis was in the room with Tump and South Koreans when invitation was passed along, no one else at Defense knew), without any strategy being discussed…
Trump accepts immediately. Distracts from other stories.
North Korean leaders have tried to get meetings with every U.S. President , and all have declined - there are reasons for that.
Trump strengthens world standing and legitimacy of Kim.
Kim’s standing among his own people goes up.
There has been no assessment by U.S. intelligence, State or Defense about what Kim is up to.
“Meeting in May” still has to be planned, parameters agreed to, a team assembled, and Trump trained on what and what not to say.
We’ll see.
Looking for Mueller news - it’s Friday.
You just know Kim clinched this by offering to show him what a real parade looks like.
(And a real family business too.)
Agreeing to face-to-face talks is merely the nominal $250 prize tax you pay so you can claim your luxurious free vacation in the Bahamas you won in that contest you don’t remember entering.
Maybe he’s going for the time-share presentation.
“Korean proverb: Beginning is half the task… Proceeding wisely is the other 90%.”
Are you sure that’s not from Yogi Berra?
I worked with a guy who did that once. We were broke musicians. He said they were going to give him a thousand bucks. He came back with a coffeemaker. We asked him if it was a thousand-dollar coffeemaker. He was kind of tight-lipped and pissy the whole night. He’s still a two-bit loser thirty years later.
[/quote]Speaking of music as you were, “Still a Two-bit Loser” sounds like a good song title for a tune about Trump.
No matter what positions he’s held
No matter how much money he made
He’s still a two-bit loser.
No matter how many porn stars he dated
No matter how many women and girls he groped
He’s still a two-bit loser.
It practically writes itself (actually, it would probably be better if it did write itself rather than me sticking my ideas in there).
They complimented him. He can’t resist that.
“North Korean leaders have tried to get meetings with every U.S. President , and all have declined - there are reasons for that.”
And yet the WaPo describes this as a “diplomatic coup” for Trump and claims that Trump’s “‘maximum pressure’ played a major role in getting Kim Jong Un to the table.” Does the media have to get snookered every single time?
On the other hand, I wonder if it may be better to have Trump thinking he is going to be a diplomatic genius than starting a war with North Korea. It may give us a temporary respite at least.
I’ve been wracking my brain to think of another meeting between international leaders, called without much prior negotiation, with the threat of war hanging over it.
Oh, yes. Munich.
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And yet the WaPo describes this as a “diplomatic coup” for Trump and claims that Trump’s “‘maximum pressure’ played a major role in getting Kim Jong Un to the table.”
[/quote]Just so they didn’t use the word “pivot” or “presidential.”
As you point out they’ve got a huge victory right now that cost them nothing. The will to “denuclearize” is as reported by SoKo and was never actually expressed by the North as far as I know. It’s hearsay. The region and world’s best hope is they lead Trump into the high grass of ongoing talks and actually offer little but table scraps. Honestly I have more faith in KJU as a rational actor than I do Trump, who’s already fallen for the Fool’s Mate and is too ignorant of the game to know it.
Stupid move. Kims just sucking him in. Moron’s going for the ego credit booster.
There is a reason for the word, “delegation” to preempt any presidential meetings of such a nature.
Whats next, trump to meet with ISIS leader in mountain top retreat.
Wonder if trump turns down the offer of which cheerleader squad he can play with.
The Nazi-Soviet pact comes to mind for the cynical naivete of it.