The sham "summit" between North Korea's murderous tyrant Kim Jong Un and tyrant wannabe and Very Stable Genius Donald "Rump" Trump ended in failure for Rump yesterday. Kim managed to stall Rump for the foreseeable future, after his insistence that all U.S. sanctions against his country be dropped, while maintaining his nuclear arsenal. Rump was apparently fixated on the testimony of his former fixer Michael Cohen in front of the House Oversight Committee, as well he should be with Cohen suggesting that Rump had committed crimes we have yet to learn about.
Rump was desperately hoping that the elaborate photo op posing as a "summit" would produce a much needed "win" for him, in light of continuing investigations and indictments of members of his circle. He's also allowed himself the absurd fantasy that the get together would lead to a Nobel Prize for Peace (thanks for doing his bidding, Prime Minister Abe!). Not. gonna. happen.
There will no doubt be ministerial talks between North Korea and the U.S. to make small steps, something that should have happened from the beginning, if it were not for Rump's eagerness to engage in his narcissistic, transactional diplomacy (be flattered, flatter, give ground, be flattered, etc.). He even managed to defend Kim over the treatment and death of Otto Warmbier, saying that he took Kim's word that he wasn't aware of the situation with him. Mmmm, that's some serious brown-nosing! Now it's back to the White (Supremacist) House to tweet manically about the "summit's" yuuge success during his executive time.
(photo: Trump goes to great lengths to appease Kim)
(photo: Trump goes to great lengths to appease Kim)
