The White House Is Already Walking Back the North Korea Summit. Because It Was a PR Stunt.

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Trump really boosted his ego at the PA rally yesterday on this issue. Trump really dissed past presidents for not solving this problem and naturally he is the one to get rid of the NK problem--paraphrasing what she told his cult.

The White House Is Already Walking Back the North Korea Summit. Because It Was a PR Stunt.


https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/03/the-white-house-is-already-walking-back-the-north-korea-deal-because-it-was-a-pr-stunt.html

By Jeremy Stahl
March 09, 20187:21 PM


Stakes are low when reality doesn’t matter.


On Thursday, a landmark deal was announced from the White House. President Donald Trump had agreed to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and that country would continue freezing nuclear and missile tests. For at least the third time in the past 24 years, North Korean leadership also would agree to seek to denuclearize the peninsula, the holy grail of diplomacy in the region.

Trump was reportedly so excited about the agreement that he popped his head into the White House briefing room to tease it. When ABC News’ Jon Karl asked the president if the announcement would be about negotiations, Trump responded excitedly, “It’s almost beyond that. Hopefully, you will give me credit.”

The media did give Trump the credit he desired. The news dominated the cable networks for a short while. The New York Post on Friday morning led with the headline “The Kim and I: Jong-un, Trump to Summit Over Nukes.” The New York Times led with the headline “North Korea Asks for Direct Talks, and Trump Agrees” and the subhead “Meeting With Kim on Nuclear Program Could Happen Within 2 Months.” That piece of news was based on a direct quote from South Korea’s National Security Adviser Chung Eui-yong, who in his announcement said that “President Trump … said he would meet Kim Jong-un by May to achieve permanent denuclearization.” The Washington Post, for its part, offered a slightly more skeptical subheadline to its lead story: “President’s bellicosity secures a diplomatic coup—for now.”

By Friday afternoon, the press quietly learned that “for now” should be considered a major caveat for this White House. Press secretary Sarah Sanders repeatedly told reporters that the meeting would not take place without “concrete actions” from North Korea. When pressed on what that would look like, Sanders said they would have to denuclearize.

Sanders: .......................................

[IADEMO2004]

1. Shelter from the Storm(y)?

[Iliyah]

2. South Korea was in on it?

It makes South Korea look like fools. What say you Moon?

[Fred Sanders]

3. South Korea and Moon and the SK election last year is being ignored by the media which as

always considers only the American point of view. South Korea is being purposely ignored in order to inflate the American role which was just rhetoric, not action.

It really is disgusting to say Trump had anything to do with any summit when ALL the work was done by the SK voters who demanded exactly this.

Think the American media will ever mention any of that?

[yallerdawg]

4. His adult minders will convince him meeting Kim would be idiotic...

so we can expect the "bellicosity" to come back shortly.

The sycophants have to figure out how this "reality show cliffhanger" should resolve for "best" ratings.