Opinion: Trump made reality TV with Kim, So I made a film about it
about not getting the Nobel Peace Prize that Obama got even though his administration asked Japan to nominate him for one.
His motives haven’t changed. Bad motives might be forgivable if they led to good outcomes, but in this case they led Trump to adopt Kim’s preferences as his own—for instance, claiming military exercises are provocative and voluntarily suspending them, wanting to declare an end to the Korean War and remove U.S.
Third, for Trump, these summits are cheap distraction, just like reality television. The entire scope of Trump diplomacy with North Korea has changed from denuclearization and getting a grip on the North Korean nuclear threat to declaring “peace” with North Korea in spite of the underlying nuclear arsenal having become more lethal since the “fire and fury” brinkmanship of 2017.
Yet nothing in the first summit, post-summit diplomacy, or second-summit planning has addressed North Korea’s ability to hold U.S. territory at risk of nuclear strike. That’s what matters most to Washington, and that’s what the next U.S. president is going to inherit—a nuclear situation that’s worse than when Trump came to office, and with less political space to resolve it than when Trump came to office because of the decisions being made on Trump’s watch.
Only a film can do justice to a reality show like this. There’s an absurdity in claiming diplomatic victories while actually doing nothing to reduce the vulnerability of U.S. territory to nuclear strikes—you know, the issue that made the 2017 crisis possible in the first place. That painful irony comes across better on screen—Trump’s preferred medium—than through the written word.
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