Played Like A Fiddle

I have been avoiding writing about Trump and his world view because I find the topic distasteful and defeating, but Pompeo's visit to North Korea, that is still going on, brought on comments from North Korean spokespeople, who you can bet are vetted by Kim Jong Un, that have been reported in the press. The statements, even in translation, are very funny in an uneasy and unsettling way.

We all know that Trump came back from Singapore proudly exclaiming that he had a new BFF and that everyone could sleep more soundly now that he, Trump, had conquered the NK demon. What was curious even before the June meeting in Singapore was Trump's nasty little letter and NK's quick subsequent acquiescence to the meeting even after that nasty little letter. Of course Trump thought it meant that Kim recognized his strength and might and Trump really wanted that Nobel prize so when he got that oversized letter (which many people thought was intended to emphasize Trump's small hands), he fell over and chortled. As has been reported, he never read the letter.

Then he came back to pronounce the whole sleeping soundly nonsense but as soon as he left, NK began revisions on launch sites and uranium enrichment sites and did so deliberately and without trying in any way to hide the activity. So when Pompeo spoke to NK yesterday, one of the negotiators on the NK side made sure that his own statement was very public--"I don't think you slept soundly last night." That was only one of the obvious, very obvious, digs at Trump who thinks he knows how to negotiate deals when all he has ever done is drive everyone else into penury or bankruptcy.

All you Trumpettes own this f'n mess--that's your guy playing way out of his league. You better hope that the monster in the mansion doesn't blow us all up once he understands how he has been played.