After the recent disaster that we now refer to as the Hanoi Summit, It is the considered opinion of this observer that the United States should not further tempt fate by putting Trump and Kim in the same room together to discuss anything more momentous than, for example, the natural beauty of the North Korean coastline, and why a Trump Tower would double land values from the current rate of a duck per acre way up to two ducks per acre!
I’m certainly not claiming that my fever-dream-inspired illustration shown above will come to pass. It probably won’t...hopefully. Perhaps it is merely an amygdala spasm-reaction emanating from the tormented psyche of someone who has been subjected to one too many “Breaking News” reports featuring Trump’s scandal du jour. If that is the case, may I be the first to offer my mea culpa. If not, expect to see the headlines dominated by dire statements from the leaders of South Korea and Japan. If that “worst case” were to come to pass, however, I would humbly suggest immediate legislation to enable the phrase “Trumpa culpa” to be integrated into standardized American dictionaries from that day forth.
The Hanoi Summit was an abysmal diplomatic failure from an administration that has already raised failure to an art form. Why should we, as Americans, South Koreans, and Japanese citizens encourage President Trump to participate in a summit in which he is sure to get snookered by someone who is demonstrably smarter, more ruthless, craftier, and more effective in every way than the Collusioner-in-Chief?
The stakes for our three nations have never been higher, and there is so much that can go awry. One of these two maniacs has pretensions of becoming a totalitarian dictator who silences criticism in grotesque ways, locks up entire families in camps for the most minor of offenses, and has utter contempt for the freedoms which most Americans expect as a birthright, and Kim is no box of chocolates, either.