My hunch is tRump pulled out of the meeting w/Kim because he was totally unprepared and would

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be a flop in front of a world audience. Then, he started his saber rattling again.

[Sneederbunk]

1. Unfortunately, Trump never knows when he is unprepared..

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2. Exactly! That's why he says he likes chaos. A cop out excuse because he never knows what he's doing.

[unitedwethrive]

3. That doesn't make sense - all he has to do is read up on the history of the Korean Peninsula and

...OH, yeah you're right, he will never be prepared.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. He never knows when he's unprepared, which is always.

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16. He's a trip. Maybe the Nuke guys shared their LSD. n/t

[Hortensis]

5. John Bolton recommended a "preemptive strirke" against NK

just a couple of months ago, and other times. That's nuclear! He's who's advising Trump now, along with Hannity, etc., and that is because Trump wants that kind of advice. Many conservatives despise and fear peace treaties as fatally weak. Trump may have preened himself on getting a Nobel like Obama, but his choice of Bolton and withdrawal from the Iran agreements suggests he also despises agreements as the product of weaklings.

While negotiating the summit, Trump, Pence and Bolton and Giuliani are all speaking publicly about forcing NK to allow us to take their nukes, making comparison to Libya, whose leader was eventually overthrown and murdered. They all have to know a big reason Kim wants nukes is to protect himself and his family's regime from just that.

I suspect Trump's yearning to use our military (why do we have it if not to shock and awe the world with our power of destruction?), and very significantly knows war would make a great distraction from his crimes, but that he is timid about actually doing it. Bolton's there to provide some backbone.

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10. ... sadly wants to be a wartime president. n/t

[Hortensis]

18. He's shown his fascination with immense destruction

and desire to be feared, but I really think he's a coward and is afraid of what comes next. Even though he was surrounded by his people, he was really anxious and defensive, arms tightly crossed, when he was promising to rain fire and fury like the world has never known on NK. Now, HHS's Tom Price looks unfazed at the prospect of murdering innumerable people.

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Thank goodness we have people like Rosenstein dealing with him.

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21. All exceptionally dangerous people!

[Hortensis]

24. Yes.

[C_U_L8R]

6. There was never any deal

Just a premature victory lap and a stupid commemorative coin.
Statesmanship is an art that takes skill and years of experience.
Trump wouldn't even know where to begin to make a deal.
This isn't some transaction like buying a hotel or laundering
Russian mob money through the bank of Cyprus.
F'n amateurs.

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11. Exactly!!! "F'n amateurs." n/t

[Raster]

7. Blather and Bullshit...

...the two things tRump* really is kind of good at.

[malaise]

8. Nah I think it was diversion from his interference in DOJ, FBI

but the summit was never going to happen. Kim already met twice with his neighbor Xi. The Con is not the main event here.

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12. Yep, the Con is on the sidelines ... way on the sidelines. n/t

[NCTraveler]

9. Trump needs to do what he has done for his entire career.

Have other people do the negotiating.

Trump is not a negotiator.

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14. Plus, he's a very weak individual. n/t

[Kirk Lover]

13. Well why do you need experts with this sort of thing? We don't need that, we don't need a State Dpt

we just NEED HIM. Fuck up on outta here with that bullshit.

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15. Beam him up Scotty, he's useless. n/t

[leftyladyfrommo]

17. The Closer closed it. A little prematurely. nt

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22. OMG, you got me laughing on that one. n/t

[Stuart G]

19. Trump is totally unprepared, just to be unprepared.......yes that's it...!!!

[bdamomma]

20. may be

NK did, who would want to meet with our moron.

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23. Kim's probably thinking to himself, wow, this guy really is a loon. n/t