North Korea threatens to cancel Trump-Kim summit

DOLOOP · May 15, 2018, 10:55pm

Yup. That is a verrrry Trumpy move.

madasheck · May 15, 2018, 10:55pm

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FlameHeart:

Yeah, I was afraid of this. Kim Jong Un cannot be trusted. I wonder what made Kim back away from this decision?

I’ve been skeptical of him from the beginning. This is the standard operating procedure for Kim’s in NK. I was, and still am, hopefully optimistic this time would be different. But I am not so sure this was not merely a play to get China more friendly and back in a stronger alliance with NK. They can blame their decision on our aggression and hostilities, and save face with Xi, who will now likely back the NK regime if there were any sort of shooting from us.

If they do truly walk away from the negotiating table, then Kim will have shown he outplayed Trump on this one. When China started to walk away from NK, that really isolated them. But now, China is back fully supporting them, while also receiving huge concessions from us in trade negotiations. Trump looks like he is getting worked over and made the fool on multiple fronts here. Perhaps things will change though. We shall see.

Trump calls it “The Art of the Deal.”

Cratic3947 · May 15, 2018, 10:57pm

Trump is great…

madasheck · May 15, 2018, 11:03pm

In his own mind.

DOLOOP · May 15, 2018, 11:05pm

I dunno man. The guy has traitors in his own organization. Traitors. By his own words. He should do something about that.

CaughtInTheMiddle · May 15, 2018, 11:13pm

you should ask his wife if that’s true now that she’s heard about the $130k skank. or even his kids.

Roxiebelle · May 15, 2018, 11:15pm

What leverage exactly do you think Kim has and what makes you think that the US (Trump) really wants and needs this meeting more then NK?

CaughtInTheMiddle · May 15, 2018, 11:15pm

my previous post should include “as MarkyS likes to call her”.

i put it between less than/greater than and it’s not showing.

Cratic3947 · May 15, 2018, 11:16pm

It’s because he was not a ex-governor or senator with a loyal political staff …

CaughtInTheMiddle · May 15, 2018, 11:17pm

or a CEO that knows how to run a large organization. or an owner of a car dealership that knows how to run a meeting.

Cratic3947 · May 15, 2018, 11:18pm

He’s doing great… Both domestically and in foreign policy.

CaughtInTheMiddle · May 15, 2018, 11:20pm

that massive tax cut he gave himself certainly didn’t hurt. nor did this latest China stuff.

SixFoot · May 15, 2018, 11:21pm

DOLOOP · May 15, 2018, 11:23pm

The site “thinks” it’s supposed to be markup and it doesn’t know how to interpret it.

Edit button sure would be nice.

You should be able to escape those with character entities “& l t ;” Remove the spaces. Displays as “<” Same with “& g t ;”. Displays as “<”

Apocalypto · May 15, 2018, 11:56pm

Your boy got punked bigly.

rone5847 · May 16, 2018, 12:37am

north Korea is like Iran cannot be trusted in anyway shape or form

Tguns · May 16, 2018, 12:50am

After reading some of these posts, it seems we’ll soon be seeing some half naked Kim riding a horse pics being posted alone side heartfelt terms of endearment.

Auto129 · May 16, 2018, 1:28am

That’s disappointing. A lot of posters were cautious so I won’t broadbrush, but maybe 3-4 of you Trump fans should slow down a bit on the celebrations and Nobel Prizes next time.

Half of a verbal promise just to be in the same room was way too low of a bar for all that hooting and hollering.

ToT · May 16, 2018, 2:53am

lol - Well, it’s back to little rocket man!

So how many millions do you think are going to die when we attack him now?

DougBH · May 16, 2018, 3:27am

And I said in that Nobel thread that it was way to early for talk about a Nobel Prize. Kim likes to play, just like North Korea has been doing for decades.
Before anything is done, there will be a period of ups and downs for many posters here. Ups and joy if it looks like the whole thing is falling apart and we near war. Sadness if it looks like there may be peace and the appearance that Trump may not do everything wrong.