I’ll say this right up front. I think Trump did the right thing here.
He saw the deal wasn’t materializing, and he called the little gargoyle out on hiding most of his nuclear stockpiles. Kim tried to play Trump for an idiot and Trump spanked him for it, justifiably so.
The New York Sun seems to agree:
The collapse of President Trump’s summit with the North Korean party boss, Kim Jong Un, certainly takes us back — to October 12, 1986. That’s when President Reagan stood up and walked out of the Reykjavik summit with another party boss, Mikhail Gorbachev, of the Soviet Union. We can remember it like it was yesterday. The long faces, the dire predictions, the Left’s instinct to blame the Americans.
Yeah, well, what’s going to be interesting about this is watching the left telling everybody the Trump shouldn’t have backed away from these negotiations, after weeks of telling everybody that he shouldn’t have gone in the first place.
And friends, let’s remember what happened after Reagan pulled out of Reykjavik… Suitably chastened, the Soviets came back and actually came up with an acceptable deal.
That’s what’s going on here. Unlike Obama, who would sign on to any deal, regardless of the work ability of that deal, just to be able to claim he had a deal, Trump isn’t about to play that game.
