The difference between this situation and other the international Trumpian farces we’ve lived through, is that this time the Nobel Prize is in play. Or so Trump believes.
There is nothing Kim can ask of Trump that Trump won’t give him: missile launch codes; complete withdrawal of all US forces from South Korea; heck, even the entire Pacific Fleet. Trump will hand them over.
Obama has a Nobel. Trump is determined to get one—bigger and better than Obama’s! And he cares nothing how severely he harms US security in the process.
Absolutely.
And as obvious as this may be to any person of normal intelligence, there is literally NO way this piece of information can enter Trump’s brain.
If Trump can deliver peace on the Korean peninsula, that is not impossible. Some pretty repugnant individuals have gotten the prize for ending long-standing conflicts. However, if his trade war and sanctions screw over our economy, he isn’t getting any prize regardless of Korea. I hope someone quietly explains that to him.
I hope so, too–but I can’t think who could possibly get through to him. Trump tends to become obsessed with anything Obama has or did; the Nobel Prize appears to be one of those fixations.
This is so utterly appalling…as others have said here, I’m stunned but not surprised. (I am surprised that this wasn’t the lead story on any of the news I’ve heard this afternoon.)
Trump was probably in a cranky mood because he realized his Nobel Peace Prize was at risk.
“Sources say Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and trade adviser Peter Navarro had a public shouting match in Beijing.”
Navarro is the more evil one in this pairing. He’s getting left out (sort of/maybe) as too hard line which would jeopardize [del] Trump companies from scoring large loans/bribes [/del] delicate talks.
That, I get. I need to squint a little, but I get it.
What I don’t get is
‘I never thought leopards would eat MY face,’ sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People’s Faces Party, while holding up a ‘Vote LEPFP’ sign. She said she absolutely will vote for them again.
I’ve mentioned a time or two that I don’t particularly care for our elected president. I believe my exact words to my family were “I’d rather pound my nuts flat with a wooden hammer than have that man in office.”
So I was surprised when, in today’s mail, I received an envelope with “President Donald J Trump” in the return address spot. I opened it up, and found out that I was invited to participate in “my first OFFICIAL Presidential Advisory Board State of the Nation Survey.”
The survey questions are phrased so that, whatever I answer, he looks good and Democrats look like the bad guys.
They were mostly yes/no questions, but one or two had boxes marked “other,” and an empty line. I took the opportunity to write in my own thoughts. For instance, one asked what issue he should focus on, moving forward. I wrote in, “hopefully, being fitted for an orange jumpsuit with DoC on the back of it. Or, since he loves Sheriff Joe Arpaio so much, maybe they can be bunkmates in Tent City together.”
But Trump is absolutely loathed in Europe so I don’t think they will give it to him. In fact I could see them giving a joint prize to the leaders of North and South Korea, China, and Japan, just so that they could leave his name conspicuously absent.
When Kushner found out he was going to be in charge of China trade policy, he ordered a book from Amazon then called the author ( Navarro) and offered him a job in the Trump Administration.
Is it just me or does that seem like the way that a not-particularly bright, spoiled rich kid would handle something he didn’t know how to do and didn’t really want to do anyway?