(03-09-2018, 10:22 PM)TheO-LineMatters Wrote:

(03-09-2018, 08:57 PM)Byron LeftTown Wrote: Like Bush barfing on the Japanese Premier bad?  

This has a huge potential for big laughs.  Maybe they can do selfies holding their big red buttons and pretending to nuke each other.  Then Trump pulls a switcheroo and Kim ends up nuking Sweden.  They they eat some cold noodles to celebrate.

This is not some comedy skit. You have two narcissistic blowhards who hate each other and have insulted one another in a room together. Both run entire countries and wield a lot of power. Neither one have filters and just blurt out what they are thinking without any consequences and the one from North Korea is known for having anyone who goes against him, assassinated. This has disaster written all over it.

Trump only attacks people on Twitter.  When he's actually with the other person, he rolls out the flattery like a simpering little girl.  Look at all the people he's attacked on Twitter, and contrast that to how he acts when he's actually in their presence.   I'd bet Kim Jong Un is the exact same way.  That's why I have very little fear that one of them could get mad at the other during these meetings.  

It's what happens after the meetings that will be the problem, because Trump has the habit of shooting from the hip and leaving his aides to sort things out afterwards.  A perfect example is this meeting itself.  Trump talks to the South Koreans and immediately agrees to the meeting, and then a day later, some of his aides are trying to back him out of it, because it goes against 50 years of American policy, that we will not meet directly with North Korea for some reason.   The guy flip flops like a tuna that's just been pulled out of the ocean.   The problem is, he came into office without knowledge or convictions about policy issues.  So his aides try to guide him like a mother trying to guide a 2 year old child. 

I hope they have the meeting, without any preconditions or expectations, and I hope it's just a meeting where Trump follows a very limited script and agrees to further talks, and then lets the professional negotiators hammer out the details without Trump flip flopping around just screwing things up. 

I'd hope the hosts of Fox and Friends bone up on foreign policy and North Korea, and then put it out in bite sized chunks so Trump will absorb some of it.

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