Trump has you never Trumpers hook line and sinker. No one could possibly what is going on behind the scenes. But he sure knows how to pull your string.
The fact that Trump haters are even having this kind of ludicrous discussion demonstrates just how far off the deep end you’ve gone.
It’s both comical and sad to watch the contortions that Trump haters go through in order to make sure he gets no credit for anything.
That worked out swimmingly in the Chinese trade negotiations, didn’t it?
During that trip, Mr. Mnuchin agreed to a private meeting with China’s top economic official, Liu He, without Mr. Navarro or any other members of the American delegation. He and Mr. Navarro stepped outside to engage in a profanity-laced shouting match, an unmistakable demonstration to the Chinese of their deep differences of opinions.
This is what happens when you do not have a singular objective, for which all members of the team agree with and are on the same page supporting. And it is a direct result of lack of leadership, engagement, planning and preparation from the President. Which is exactly what we are seeing with respect to North Korea.
Results. When all the dust settles, we can look back and see whether or not Trump was successful. Until then, Trump haters are simply playing into his hand with their obsession over every word he utters.
And in your opinion, it is not appropriate for those of us who actually want to see North Korea denuclearized, and peace brought to the Korean Peninsula, to be concerned that the President of the United States is planning on just winging it. Is that correct?
Like he did with negotiations with China, that ended with us in a worse position than when we started? And it is especially more concerning, because with China, we can have a second or third chance at this. Who knows whether we get another chance with the crazed murdering dictator Kim.
It appears he is going, yes. But it is unclear if he will be allowed to be involved in the discussions. Either by Trump or by North Korea.
In response to a query from Yonhap, a White House National Security Council official confirmed that Bolton will travel to Singapore, but it was unclear whether he would sit at the table with the North Koreans.
Part of the problem is Trump’s on-and-off chemistry with Bolton. The president fumed after Bolton spoke of a hard-line “Libya model” for North Korean denuclearization on CBS News in late April — implying that the U.S. would make no concessions until after Kim had physically surrendered his nuclear program. After North Korea responded furiously, Trump blamed Bolton for derailing the summit. In turn, Trump dictated to Bolton a letter to Kim canceling the nuclear summit and insisted that Bolton read it back to him.
On Friday, when a top North Korean official arrived in Washington, the president did not invite Bolton to join them in the Oval Office — another departure from tradition, in which the national security adviser attends every significant meeting with a foreign official. A second former Bush NSC official said he could not recall a single important meeting for which the president’s national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, was not present.
In deed. He has been relegated to the kiddie table. Which in all honesty, in this situation, is a good thing. Keep that war-mongering fool as far away as possible.