More Trump Derangement Syndrome

More Trump derangement syndrome

Trump cancels meeting with Kim Jong Un after pushing for June 12 date -- live updates

Trump made the announcement in a letter to Kim, writing that he "very much looking forward to being there with you"

NOBEL PEACE PRIZE, HUH?

President Trump has cancelled the upcoming summit between the United States and the North Koreans in a new letter released on Thursday. Mr. Trump writes in the letter that he was “very much looking forward to being there with you. Sadly, based on the tremendous anger and open hostility displayed in your most recent statement, I feel it is inappropriate, at this time, to have this long-planned meeting.”

He also told Kim in the letter, “You talk about your nuclear capabilities, but ours are so massive and powerful that I pray to God they will never have to be used.”

That crow I was going to eat if the talks went all the way got a presidential pardon this morning, and just like the way this glimmer of hope for the Koreas started, a lot of people (South Korea, Japan, China, and a collection of Western reporters who were invited to an (alleged) dismantling of another test site) got caught by surprise by the abrupt cancellation. 

So what did we learn today? The same thing as all the other times that the Big Dummy has declared a premature victory. Promises are just words, and you can make words sound like anything. But until the signature is on the paper, nobody’s won.