Opinion: One more North Korea humiliation for Donald Trump
President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Hanoi on Feb. 28. By Paul Waldman Paul Waldman Opinion writer covering politics Email Bio Follow Opinion writer April 25 at 3:02 PM Like other presidents before him, Donald Trump has failed to negotiate a deal to eliminate North Korea’s nuclear weapons program.
The presentation of the invoice — not previously disclosed by U.S. or North Korean officials — was extraordinarily brazen even for a regime known for its aggressive tactics. Imagine for a moment the paroxysms of rage Fox News and the rest of the conservative media would be in right now if this had happened during the Obama administration. They’d cry that President Barack Obama was a traitor, a weakling, someone unfit to walk past the White House, let alone sit in the Oval Office. There would be a week’s worth of spittle-flecked segments about the shame brought upon us by our pathetic excuse for a president.
That performance was so appalling that even many Republicans were disgusted with the president. Nevertheless, one might be able to say that it was worth it for Trump to debase himself in that manner if it had actually produced some kind of breakthrough with Pyongyang. Why? What it comes down to is that Trump has an absurd faith in his alleged negotiating prowess, which we long ago realized was a fiction. He has so much faith in it, in fact, that he never bothered to familiarize himself with the relevant facts on the subject of North Korea and nuclear weapons. Before the first Trump-Kim summit last June, the New York Times reported that “aides who have recently left the administration say Mr.
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