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This is more Trumpian exaggeration. Lots of smart people from both parties worked on N Korea for decades, managing its threats, mitigating its outbursts, working with allies to dampen a scary situation. Not every problem is amenable to American power.Trump’s ‘boldness’ or ‘art /1
of the deal’ is not what got us where we are. It was SK diplomacy & Trump’s willingness to make unreciprocated concessions like meeting w/ Kim for nothing. There was always a ‘deal’ to be had with N Korea if it meant us just giving stuff up. Next stop, withdrawing US forces f/ /2
S Korea, bc Trump thinks our democratic partners are actually scammers (bc that’s what Trump is). Next, other presidents have gotten US prisoners back too, and Trump’s boasting here is typically inappropriate given that O Warmbier died on his watch. And the /3
‘relationships.’ Please. Trump keeps flogging this point, but since he doesn’t know anything about NK or previous efforts to engage it, he doesn’t know that this has never worked, that China and others have tried this to little avail. But Trump’s untutored and self-obsessed, /4
so he thinks every action he takes is somehow new or amazing. So meeting Kim Jong Un once alone for 41 mins talking through translators constitutes a ‘relationship.’ Only someone nourished on Hannity kool-aid wd believe this. Trump’s fooled himself,bought into his own schtick.END
