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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Fri May 25, 2018, 10:20 AM May 2018

Trump sounds optimistic tone about future North Korea talks, suggests June 12 summit could happen...

Source: The Washington Post



Trump sounds optimistic tone about future North Korea talks, suggests June 12 summit could happen after all

By John Wagner
May 25 at 9:52 AM

A day after aborting a summit with North Korea’s leader, President Trump sounded an optimistic note Friday about future negotiations, saying it is even possible that a meeting could take place on June 12 as originally planned.

“We’ll see what happens. We are talking to them now,” Trump told reporters as he left the White House Friday morning. “They very much want to do it. We’d like to do it.”

“It could even be the 12th,” he added, referring to the date next month that had been set for him to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore.

Asked if North Korea is playing games, Trump said: “Everybody plays games. You know that better than anybody.”

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-sounds-note-of-optimism-on-north-korea-claims-democrats-rooting-against-him/2018/05/25/e3c1767a-6001-11e8-9ee3-49d6d4814c4c_story.html

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Trump sounds optimistic tone about future North Korea talks, suggests June 12 summit could happen... (Original Post) DonViejo May 2018 OP
Yesterday I said tRump could only use that NK squirrel once... Zoonart May 2018 #1
Yup, sick of this shit... they fall for it every time! InAbLuEsTaTe May 2018 #3
Reality TV. eom KPN May 2018 #2
Ugh. More reality show tease played out in public NCDem47 May 2018 #4
I could see the cartoon already, duforsure May 2018 #5
Flaky! logosoco May 2018 #6
Yawn. Charlie Brown and Lucy playing with a nuclear football. truthisfreedom May 2018 #7
Optimistic? paleotn May 2018 #8
Random fact of the day DetroitLegalBeagle May 2018 #11
If President Obama erpowers May 2018 #9
It would go against his principle Turbineguy May 2018 #10
Trump points in more directions than a weather vane in a tornado. DFW May 2018 #12
Kimmie is playing "catch & release". Donnie is too stupid to see the pattern. nt NCjack May 2018 #13

Zoonart

(11,869 posts)
1. Yesterday I said tRump could only use that NK squirrel once...
Fri May 25, 2018, 10:26 AM
May 2018

today he's dusting the squirrel off and using it again. MSM will run after the bait again.

NCDem47

(2,249 posts)
4. Ugh. More reality show tease played out in public
Fri May 25, 2018, 10:34 AM
May 2018

Trump: STFU and work behind the scenes. This “will he? won’t he?” is old and pathetic and so deameaning to the U.S. He is so tacky and uncouth to live by the words “don’t complain. Don’t explain.” Of course we want transparency from our president, but just blabbing on is horrendous. A horrible deal maker.

logosoco

(3,208 posts)
6. Flaky!
Fri May 25, 2018, 10:38 AM
May 2018

I am fine with flaky people as a general rule, but I don't think they should be involved with things like nuclear weapons.

paleotn

(17,931 posts)
8. Optimistic?
Fri May 25, 2018, 10:42 AM
May 2018

You just took a giant shit on them with that letter, you fucking moron! They're not giving up their nukes. No one ever gives up their nukes. And now you've royally pissed them off. Stupid does not even begin to describe this ingrate.

DetroitLegalBeagle

(1,924 posts)
11. Random fact of the day
Fri May 25, 2018, 10:52 AM
May 2018

South Africa gave up their nukes. They had their own program and produced around half a dozen bombs before dismantling them and shutting the program down in the early 90's.

That said, I don't see the North Koreans giving them up.

erpowers

(9,350 posts)
9. If President Obama
Fri May 25, 2018, 10:43 AM
May 2018

Can anyone imagine the Republican/Conservative outrage if President Obama had been this indecisive about any issue? Fox News would, at this moment, be claiming that this is what is wrong with the world; people do not know what President Obama is going to do. They would claim our allies cannot trust him and our enemies do not have to fear him. They would claim that even after being jerked around by a brutal dictator that imprisons and kills his own people and having a meeting canceled on him, President Obama and his fellow Harvard/Ivy League wimps are now begging this monster to meet with him. They would claim this is why our enemies are emboldened. This is why Iran wants to get nuclear weapons. This is why Al Queda and ISIS are running amok around the world.

I assume Fox News is now going to spin this as showing that Donald Trump is a great of a person and negotiator. I guess they will say that this shows Donald Trump, unlike Barack Obama, understand how to preserve and how he will not let the moment get away from him. How long before Fox News begins to claim President Obama could never have pulled off a play like this; walk away from the table and then let it be known he is willing to come back to the table? Then maybe they will say this all shows why Donald Trump is a billionaire businessman and Barack Obama is some guy who has lived off the government his entire life.

DFW

(54,409 posts)
12. Trump points in more directions than a weather vane in a tornado.
Fri May 25, 2018, 11:40 AM
May 2018

His supporters will praise his genius, saying he is doing it to keep the North Koreans off balance. But everyone except Ivanka and Steve Doocy knows that's not true.

The only one here who is truly unbalanced is Trump, himself. He believes people who tell him water is dry, and he believes people who tell him water is wet, and by the end of the day, he'll believe water is both dry AND wet, depending on whether has last Big Mac had more ketchup or more mustard.

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