Once again, every statement in this tweet is wrong: 1. Fox News’ analysts on N Korea are routinely terrible with little specific training or focus on the place. Generic hawks are not experts. 2. It’s not ‘big and very positive.’ It’s a minor positive. This is more outlandish, /1
over-promising Trumpian bombast, like when he was gonna win a Nobel. 3. Calling NK’s bloodthirsty leader ‘chairman’ is repugnant groveling. What would Hannity be saying if Obama did that? 4. Trump is not going to prove anyone wrong. He’s too incompetent to outsmart anyone. We /2
all know, including the N Koreans, Trump’s schtick by now. NK will never give up its weapons. We need to stop raising unreal expectations. 5. Kim Jong Un doesn’t ‘like’ Trump. They’re not friends. Trump keeps saying this, bc it keeps the focus on him personally and suggests he /3
has wondrous negotiating skills (which isn’t true anyway; T got rolled at Singapore). At SG, Trump and Kim meet for 4 hours, personally for about 45 minutes. And the whole thing went through translators. That’s not a relationship or friendship. It’s a business meeting. In /4
short, don’t get your hopes up. NK has good reasons to keep its weapons, not trust US denuclearization terms after Kaddafi,& not trust Trump personally after Iran. Would you trust T, like all those burned contractors & creditors? Of course you wouldn’t. The NKs aren’t stupid. END
