The signs are all there. What are we going to do about it?
Reporters crowded into a Singapore auditorium Tuesday, expecting President Trump to walk out and announce the results of his historic meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Suddenly, two huge screens on either side of the empty podium came to life. Soaring music boomed over the speakers, and the reporters were bombarded with a montage portraying North Korea as some sort of paradise.
Golden sunrises. Gleaming skylines and high-speed trains. Children skipping through Kim Il Sung square in Pyongyang, North Korean flags waving between images of Egyptian pyramids, the Taj Mahal and the Lincoln Memorial. In a split-screen shot, Kim Jong Un waved to an adoring crowd while President Trump stood beside him with his thumb in the air. The pair appeared over and over again, like running mates in a campaign video.
The film went on like this for several minutes, with brief interludes of missiles, soldiers and warships interrupting the fanfare. Some journalists, unable to understand the Korean-language narration, assumed they were watching one of Pyongyang’s infamous propaganda films. “What country are we in?” asked a reporter from the filing center.
But then the video looped, playing this time in English. And then Trump walked onto the stage and explained that the film was not North Korean propaganda. It had been made in America, by or on the orders of his White House, for the benefit of Kim. “I hope you liked it,” Trump told the reporters. “I thought it was good. I thought it was interesting enough to show. … And I think he loved it.”
Why are the Democrats giving Trump so much crap for meeting and negotiating with North Korea?
In his first run for the presidency, Obama said that he would meet with the leaders of Iran and North Korea “without preconditions.”
The right wing of the Democratic Party excoriated him for holding that position.
Obama won anyway because those on the Left agreed with his position.
Last August while Trump seemed to be leading us to war with “little rocket man,” the Democrats were screaming for Trump to “negotiate.” “Jaw, jaw not war, war.”
So which is it, do the Democrats want war or peace?
Kim is an evil bastard who imprisons, tortures and kills his people.
But so does the King of Saudi Arabia, the Emir of the United Arab Emirates, the dictator of Egypt, Russia, China and Turkey to name a few.
We call some of these brutal regimes our friends and others allies, but with do business with all of them.
Democrats should stop playing politics with the issue of war and peace.