What's the point, other than a photo op?

[struggle4progress]

Analysis by Nic Robertson, CNN
Updated 9:23 AM ET, Sat June 29, 2019

(CNN)Donald Trump may enter the history books Sunday as the first serving US President to step foot in North Korea -- but he'll also be handing its dictator Kim Jong Un a propaganda victory.

Despite Trump's efforts to make the moment appear a casual coincidence, it has in fact been well choreographed ...

A "quick hello" is all he is after, Trump added ...

If he does, Kim will have him just where he wants him -- in a photo opportunity he can milk for his own propaganda, casting him as a strong leader able to stand up to American imperialism ...

https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/29/politics/donald-trump-kim-jong-un-analysis-intl/index.html

[Flaleftist]

1. Putin told him it was a good idea?

[GP6971]

2. Kim crossed the DMZ

into the S Korean to meet with S Korean President Moon. Kim will demand Dotard meet him on NK's side...huge lose face for Dotard if he does.

[customerserviceguy]

6. Better to have that

than nuclear war with NK.

[Steelrolled]

16. I don't worry much about losing face these days.

[riversedge]

3. Trump is only interested in feeding his Ego.

[watoos]

4. Trump is distracting

from failing to get a deal with China at the G20.

[RHMerriman]

5. Maybe he'll ask Kim for asylum...

Maybe he'll ask Kim for asylum...

[ecstatic]

7. I hope they'll keep him.

Sorry, I do.

[UniteFightBack]

8. Another point of this is he is stringing this along for the election. See we are meeting, relations

are so much better than under Obama. We are safer now ( ), I have such a great friendship with Kim, no nuclear testing.

It's scum and skank kabuki theater. This is yet another chapter that will be written as such an utter failure by this fake president and his shaministration.

[malaise]

9. Better question

WTF is the US doing in Korea - period?

[Corgigal]

10. Photo Op

and a fund raiser. That all Trump believes he needs to do.

[Mc Mike]

11. Rump's SURE to win a Nobel if he can get photographed alongside Kim at

an ICBM test firing.

Slap a fresh coat of paint over his latest foreign policy failure. Any half assed makeover is good enough for Rumpf. Threaten them if they escalate nuke arms programs, then kiss up to them when they do, then declare 'victory'.

Half assed image makeover, like his orange color, his hair, his baggy suits and long ties. Fail, slap a fresh coat of paint over the failure, declare success.

[GoCubsGo]

12. It's another distraction.

Look at this bright, shiny object, and ignore the fact that he just gave Putin the go-ahead to continue meddling in our elections, among other things. It's his usual bullshit. Can't wait to see what he pulls on the day Mueller testifies.

[Vinca]

13. Trump is like an awkward teenager chasing their favorite football player around.

It's embarrassing. The "Stalker-In-Chief."

[spanone]

14. what he really craves is the headline...1st 'President' to do this or that...all bullshit

He stole the new cycle for the day...THAT'S what it's all about

[struggle4progress]

15. 20 steps into North Korea

By Kevin Liptak, CNN
Updated 5:35 AM ET, Sun June 30, 2019

Seoul (CNN)President Donald Trump shook hands with Kim Jong Un on Sunday and took 20 steps into North Korea, making history as the first sitting US leader to set foot in the hermit kingdom.

Trump crossed the low stone curb separating the North and South at 3:45 p.m. local time, making his way alongside a grinning Kim into a country that's long been a global pariah for its nuclear ambitions and dismal record on human rights ...

https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/29/politics/kim-jong-un-donald-trump-dmz-north-korea/index.html

[UTUSN]

17. A cheap *STUNT* from his carnival barker reality show crap!

He's so ignorant, separately from his ignorance of facts of history, that he doesn't realize that gazillions of bigger and more important people than he will ever be end up forgotten on the ash heap.

[Totally Tunsie]

18. ...a very EXPENSIVE photo op.

How many millions did tRumpie's "20 steps" cost us?