Posted on 06/09/2018 8:58:15 PM PDT by Ken H
SINGAPORE — When President Trump declared that he did not really need to prepare for his legacy-defining meeting with North Korea’s leader, he drew sighs or snickers from veterans of past negotiations. But he had a point: In his own unorthodox way, Mr. Trump has been preparing for this encounter his entire adult life.
For an American leader who came of age in the early 1960s, when the United States and the Soviet Union stepped to the brink of nuclear annihilation, the meeting with Kim Jong-un strikes a personal chord, offering Mr. Trump a historic chance to rid the world, and his own presidency, of the greatest threat from atomic weapons.
For a property developer-turned-president, the tête-à-tête, scheduled for Tuesday in Singapore, is a long-anticipated test of Mr. Trump’s conviction that he can slice through decades of diplomatic orthodoxy and strike a grand bargain with North Korea, a feat that eluded his three immediate predecessors.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
The deal of a lifetime, and only his second year!
Well explained.....
Trump is going to do it live.
And as President Trump said, no one really knows this guy. So how can you really “prepare?” Trump knows how to deal, and he knows various personality types. He knows what he wants and what he’s got to offer. That’s enough to be going on with, I think.
New York Times has retitled the article:
“Meeting With Kim Tests Trump’s Dealmaking Swagger”
Couldn’t even admit in their headline that Trump has a point.
We got ‘em on tape!
.........”That’s enough to be going on with, I think.”
Absolutely.
Obama, Hillary, Kerry, and every leftist, globalist dweeb in the state department prepared their whole life for the deal with Iran and look hiw well that worked out...
I am surprised that the Times allowed this reporter to write a moderately positive article about Trump
here’s NYT’s TDS on steroids:
9 Jun: NYT: In the Trump Administration, Science Is Unwelcome. So Is Advice.
As the president prepares for nuclear talks, he lacks a close adviser with nuclear expertise. It’s one example of a marginalization of science in shaping federal policy.
By Coral Davenport
Nevertheless, as Mr. Trump prepares for the talks, he has no close aides on par with those who helped President Barack Obama negotiate a nuclear deal with Iran. Mr. Obama’s advisers included Ernest J. Moniz, a nuclear physicist who led the Energy Department and oversaw the nation’s nuclear weapons arsenal, and John Holdren, a physicist and expert in nuclear arms control who served as the White House science adviser...
Of course, Mr. Trump was an outspoken critic of Mr. Obama’s Iran deal and withdrew from it last month...
In Washington, the administration’s excising of science is particularly evident at the Environmental Protection Agency...
Scott Pruitt, the embattled head of the E.P.A., is the subject of at least 12 government investigations into his first-class travel, costly security detail and management of the agency. At the same time he has won praise from Mr. Trump for his speed at rolling back environmental regulations.
Mr. Pruitt has initiated more than a dozen regulatory rollbacks, including signing a measure declaring his intent to undo or weaken Mr. Obama’s climate change regulations known as the Clean Power Plan...
The new rules would require that the data from all scientific studies used by the E.P.A. to formulate air and water regulations be publicly available. Mr. Pruitt has touted that as a step toward increasing scientific transparency...AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/09/climate/trump-administration-science.html
Claiming “no need to prepare” in public is psyops. I’ve not doubt there’s lots of preparation going on and gaming how to handle Kim, how to deal with proposals and counter proposals, knowing where to press, what the NORKS need and what they will give up, what we an horse trade.. Trump is too good a businessman to go into a major negotiation unprepared.
Trump understands perfectly. The deal is North Korea gives up their nuclear weapons and their nuclear weapons programs and we have total access of inspection. The rest of the deal is how we and Japan and South Korea can help North Korea.
Kim gets to be dictator for life and North Korea is no longer a danger. Oddly he does not get to be dictator for life if he allows Western investment and open borders to the South. He will still be head of state but not the dictator. This is a good deal.
Yep - it’s the best deal Whoa Fat can ever get and he would be a fool to pass it up.
Oh no, can't have the plebes looking at this stuff. Only the elite can possibly understand it.
Trump: you kids in the back of the mini van belt up. We are about to jump the grand canyon. Trump pushes the mini van to 300 mph and lands at the other side. Looks back and says “Kids you are going to be famous. No one has pulled that off before.”
for all the preparing the others did for negotiating recently and last few decades, what of any real good did it ever do?
This meeting is more like the elementary school student being called into the principal’s office to be disciplined for bad behavior.
The left will claim that Trump was just lucky to be president at the right time, and that because of some other pressures, or something in the ether, that this would have happened anyway. But on the bright side, Hillary will believe that too, and it’ll stick in her craw that because of unjustly being deprived of her rightful election as the first woman president (sarc), she also lost the chance to be in office and claim credit for this historic event.
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