Sunday, June 10, 2018

Very Stable Genius Trump Does Putin's Bidding; Will "Wing It" With Kim



Well, this was to be expected from Western Alliance destroyer and unhinged Putin puppet Donald "Rump" Trump:
President Trump upended two days of global economic diplomacy late Saturday, refusing to sign a joint statement with America’s allies, threatening to escalate his trade war on the country’s neighbors and deriding Canada’s prime minister as “very dishonest and weak.” 
In a remarkable pair of acrimony-laced tweets from aboard Air Force One as he flew away from the Group of 7 summit toward a meeting with North Korea’s leader, Mr. Trump lashed out at Justin Trudeau. He accused the prime minister, who hosted the seven-nation gathering, of making false statements. 
Literally moments after Mr. Trudeau’s government proudly released the joint statement, noting it had been agreed to by all seven countries, Mr. Trump blew apart the veneer of cordiality that had prevailed throughout the two days of meetings in a resort town on the banks of the St. Lawrence River.
“Based on Justin’s false statements at his news conference, and the fact that Canada is charging massive Tariffs to our U.S. farmers, workers and companies, I have instructed our U.S. Reps not to endorse the Communique as we look at Tariffs on automobiles flooding the U.S. Market!” Mr. Trump wrote. 
Trudeau's office responded with the kind of temperate statement you would have hoped an American President would be capable of:
“We are focused on everything we accomplished here at the summit,” said Cameron Ahmad, a spokesman for Mr. Trudeau. “The prime minister said nothing he hasn’t said before — both in public, and in private conversations with the President.” 
At the same time Rump was helping achieve a long- time Russian goal, he continued to plump for Russia to re-join the Group of 7. Clearly, Putin has all the goods on Rump, and he's leveraging it to our great disadvantage as a nation.

Rump left his G-7 meeting debacle a day early in order to get enough Twitter raging "executive time" in Singapore before his "summit" with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un. Of course, being the Very Stable Genius he is, Rump knows preparation is for suckers:
President Donald Trump indicated on Thursday that he believes the outcome of his upcoming summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un depends less on whether he’s done his homework, and more on him having the mindset of a master dealmaker. 
“I think I’m very well prepared,” Trump said in a joint press conference with visiting Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. “I don’t think I have to prepare very much. It’s about attitude, it’s about willingness to get things done … So this isn’t a question of preparation, it’s a question of whether or not people want it to happen, and we’ll know that very quickly.” [snip]
What happens if Trump waltzes into Singapore hoping for a meeting of the minds with Kim and finds he’s been played? What if Kim makes him an offer that looks good to him but has hidden downsides? If Kim proves intractable on the denuclearization question, or demands assurances in return that the U.S. can’t easily deliver, what’s his next move? What checks are in place to ensure that the president isn’t cornered into agreeing to something he shouldn’t? Preparing answers to these questions is the purpose of that prep work Trump claims he doesn’t need. 
Reconciliation with North Korea is a deal orders of magnitude more complicated than any Trump has ever done in his private life, with astronomically higher stakes. If the president isn’t convinced that he needs to prepare for this event carefully, he may be in for a rude awakening next Tuesday. 
Just who is going to "convince" this megalomaniac that he needs to prepare? He thinks his magical powers will guide him.

To imagine that an ignoramus like Rump -- with no knowledge of history, no skills as a "master dealmaker" (except getting dirty money from Russian oligarchs when no one else will lend to you), and no interest in learning anything that he doesn't see on "Fox & Friends" -- will pull off a diplomatic coup in Singapore by sheer force of his puerile, easily manipulated, narcissistic personality is just absurd. Which is not to say that every attempt won't be made by Rump's White (Supremacist) House and the state media at Fox "News" and hate radio to make anything that comes out of this a Triumph! for the Dear Leader (ours, not theirs).

We're going to be paying the bill for this malignant doofus for a long, long time. (See Paul Krugman's op/ ed along these lines.)

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BONUS III:  Trudeau's former foreign policy advisor nailed it:
"Big tough guy once he’s back on his airplane. Can’t do it in person, and knows it, which makes him feel [weak]. So he projects these feelings onto Trudeau and then lashes out at him. You don’t need to be Freud. He’s a pathetic little man-child," Roland Paris said in a tweet on Saturday. 
(Top Photo:  Rump, with intelligent, mature Western leaders at the G-7; photo by Jesco Denzel.)
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