Thread by @MollyMcKew

I woke up in middle of most Trumpian presser ever, in which he, replete with abundant lip-sweat, strung wordstuff together in nonsensical ways to respond to questions from just about any random Asian journo he could call on if he was sure they were not from the US press corps.

His love affair with Kim goes on, and he is aided in his word-dance by his stuffed suits, and he managed to work in how Kim wasn't responsible for the torture of Otto Warmbier, because, after all, he has a lot of people in prison camps, A LOT, and Kim can't keep up with all that.

The hand gestures say it all. POTUS got nothing in his fool's errand, and clearly something happened that he doesn't want to talk about that probably relates to why Lavrov was in Hanoi.

Oh look, Sean Hannity is in Hanoi, and fed lines to POTUS at the presser.

But the wordstuff. The wordstuff. Not a sentence was finished. In transcript form, it would be a travesty. Even Pompeo unable to say anything concrete.

So in summary: the kabuki summit to distract from the not-kabuki Russia investigations was a failure, and even managed to fail to fully interrupt the Cohen hearing cycle.