Trust
The Biden speeches write themselves, don't they.
"I've never claimed to be a very stable genius. But I know enough not to trust Kim Jong Un to keep a promise – and if I ever meet him, I won't leave him smiling at me or anybody else"
— David Frum (@davidfrum) May 25, 2019
(Yes, I’m clearly going to be beating this to death today. It’s that astounding.)
It’s not just knowing enough not to trust Kim Jong Un to keep a promise – it’s another level of stupid even from that. It’s knowing enough not to be bounced into trusting Kim Jong Un because he flatters me.
How dumb and incompetent and undeveloped and practically fetus-level immature do you have to be to 1. take the flattery of a known murderous tyrant seriously and 2. allow that flattery to motivate you to slobber publicly on a known murderous tyrant? Seriously. This sack of shit in a gilt wig would see the whole world nuked to an ash pile for the sake of compliments from Kim Jong fucking Un.
The only positive I can take from this is that it means Trump is unlikely to unleash upon North Korea the nuclear arsenal at his fingertips. That would truly be the end of the world.
Which means that the only hope Iran now has is to swallow their pride and invite Jared Kushner to a meeting to discuss building a Trump Tower and golf course in the prettiest part of Tehran. Ditto Venezuela, Yemen, and all other countries which the US is planning to turn to dust.