one theory is that these direct interactions with Kim are a way to have conversations where Chairman Xi's agents cannot hear
Because that is the fact. Stopped US military exercises and gives Kim an equal stage as the POTUS and gets nothing in return. Kim has already reneged on his promises. Trump is being played and it's embarrassing.
There’s no real diplomacy happening here. Nothing that’ll last beyond what mood Trump and Kim are in on any given day and that’s the problem. Make no mistake that there is no nuclear agreement in place and no path for there to be any inspections to ensure they aren’t using Trump relations to build a stockpile of nuclear arms without being noticed. Having this level of relations without the diplomacy is really dangerous actually. I’m glad that NK isn’t currently talking about destroying America but they likely will be again in due time anyway, and because Trump gave them smokescreen reality tv diplomacy to trick the world, they’ll be much more dangerous when the time comes where they start provoking the rest of the world again. All of this back and forth means nothing without the real hard work of diplomacy behind it. Right now it’s just a reality TV show that benefits nobody but Kim and puts Trump in a better position to receive help from NK to hack our elections in his favor.
Yeah bet this has nothing to do with all that rare earth and getting at china... some of yall are real geniuses...
Meanwhile, trump lies about President Obama get picked up and reinforced by his favorite "news" source...
I don't know what's worse... trump including his daughter and son-in-law or trump including tucker carlson... At first I thought this was a joke, or a mistake.
Imagine president Hillary Clinton meeting Kim Jung at the DMZ without any real diplomacy happening first with Chelsea Clinton and... Rachel Maddow.
I can just see her now... coughing a lot and having to be carried like a sack of potatoes to a black van. Rachel can then make something up about how Russia was making her "dehydrated".
There’s not a day that goes by when trump doesn’t embarrass our country on the national stage. He’s absolutely disgraceful and people are becoming numb to it.
