The real diplomat
4 Don Surber by Don Surber
President Trump doesn't know diplomacy, the experts said. President Trump is too impulsive, they said. President Trump doesn't understand Korea, they said.
But after President Trump closed the deal on Tuesday -- a deal ironed out over the last few months, perhaps longer -- they said he did not get enough.
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6) They shakes hands, and EVERYBODY IS HAPPY.
The general now LIKES TRUMP. pic.twitter.com/5IbLzPXi6p
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(7) Why is this a problem?
"Trump gave them legitimacy."
They ARE legitimate!
North Korean is a REAL COUNTRY.
12:05 AM - Jun 15, 2018
Writing in Vanity Fair, Abigail Tracy said, "despite Trump’s obvious glee, the denouement of the improbable months-long courtship, which began with the two leaders exchanging threats of nuclear annihilation, amounted to little more than a propaganda win for Kim and a legacy-builder for Trump."
President Trump is achieving something. Oh no! We cannot allow that. Why, people might see that he is the best president since Reagan.
Tracy quoted "a former State Department official who previously worked in the region," who said, "The photo op was the summit for our reality-TV president and for eager-to-be-accepted D.P.R.K."
Everybody got what they wanted. A nuclear war was averted.
So what was her headline?
“The Statement Is a Joke: North Korea Experts Bemoan the Trump-Kim Photo Op.”
Quoting diplomats who failed to do their jobs for a quarter-century while North Korea developed nukes, this woman implies that we would be better off dead than to have this deal.
Most of the big shots in Washington and Manhattan likely feel the same way.
That is because they feel they might as well be dead. They are out of power. Not only did Donald John Trump defy the odds, their cheating, and their spending twice as much money to become, but then he had the audacity to succeed despite the hobble of a witch hunt and sedition in the deep state.
President Trump is doing things that they said they would get to later just as soon as this Redskins-Giants game is over.
Regulations rolled back?
The corporate tax rate cut from 35% down to 21%?
Less than 4% unemployment?
The economy fixed, he is working on a new world order in which individual nations decide for themselves what is best for their nation.
Jeffrey Lewis, the director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Program at Middlebury, bashed President Trump.
"The statement itself is a joke. It is less than any statement that the North Koreans have ever agreed to in the past. On eliminating nuclear weapons, the North Koreans just reaffirmed the statement that they made with the South Koreans. The president continues to say that Kim is giving up his nuclear weapons. Kim continues to refuse to promise that. I don’t know how long they can keep fudging this," Lewis told Vanity Fair.
Really? A joke? Let us turn to what the statement says about nukes.
"Reaffirming the April 27, 2018 Panmunjom Declaration, the DPRK commits to work toward complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula," the Singapore statement said.
On May 25, Kim blew up the tunnels in the mountain where he tests his nukes.
The grapes are sour.
If nuclear proliferation ever ends, guys like Lewis are out of a job.
And so he and the rest of them mock the agreement, as if three years of ridicule stopped Donald Trump.
They squeal like little piglets. They are being weaned. They hate it. They curse President Trump.
He laughs. The world laughs with him.
President Trump reminds me of Benjamin Franklin. The colonies sent Franklin and John Adams to France to get help in the revolution. Franklin arrived as a rock star at 72. He had discovered electricity after all. Adams resented it. In Paris, Franklin partied in the French salons with the women at night, while Adams spent his days copiously writing letters seeking aid.
In the end, Franklin got the aid. Turns out a Frenchman's mistress has more influence on a politician than a letter. Never underestimate a man who has figured out that lightning is electric.
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