Preidiction for Trump's summit with North Korea

[Yavin4]

I'm going to save all of us a lot of time and let you know now how this whole thing will go down and how the media will report on it:

1. Trump and Kim Jong Un will have a series of photo ops. and pressers.
2. Nothing substantive whatsoever will come out of this summit. Maybe some small agreement on the side which will be violated within months.
3. Trump won't soil his pants.
4. The media will hail Trump as a great foreign policy leader and compare him to Nixon opening relations with China.
5. Based on positive media coverage, Trump's approval rating will go above 50% for the first time.
6. Democratic leaders in congress will praise Trump and enrage the base.

Finally, right before the end of the year, North Korea will do something hostile, and we'll be right back to where we were before the summit, maybe in a worse place.

The end.

[magicarpet]

1. Nothing more than a grand photo op for the King.

[Yavin4]

2. Which King? n/t

[magicarpet]

3. King Orange of Dung.

[maryellen99]

4. He's going to pull our troops out of South Korea as a "promise" to Kim

Then NK will invade them. Trump is in over his head and is most likely to do this. The pieces are falling in place for WW3.

[C_U_L8R]

5. So how much will this photo op cost us??

Couldn't they have skyped and come to an agreement first???
This is yet another bullshitty Mission Accomplished moment.
A billion dollar selfie. Meh.

[ehrnst]

6. Why do you think "Democratic leaders in congress will praise Trump"? (nt)

[Yavin4]

12. Because Democratic leaders in congress are intimidated by the beltway media.

If the Beltway media praises Trump for anything, Dems in congress always follow along.

[ehrnst]

13. Can you provide an example?

I haven't seen this.

By "Beltway Media" do you mean the Washington Post?

[Hortensis]

14. Lol. No, of course not. And our Democratic base is eagerly

voting for Democrats and looking forward to kicking Republican ass on November 6.

Encouragingly, most voters on both right and left are rejecting extremism in the primaries.

Of course, unlike Republicans' reliable little core of hateful social conservatives, our base is our large, diverse coalition who've being voting together for years to promote our shared goals and values. Very different.

[NurseJackie]

15. Oh good god! GMAFB! Stop it! Enough!

Dems in congress always follow along.

Oh good god! GMAFB! Stop it! Enough! This is total bullshit and you know it. It's just one more way to smear and denigrate and attack Democrats.

[spanone]

7. My prediction: Trump will do whatever is beneficial to Vladimir Putin.

[RKP5637]

8. IMO it's all about photo ops. They are similar in some ways. There will be lots of

grandstanding and praise. It will benefit both of them in photo opportunities. IMO that's then about it. His deplorable will praise him as the greatest leader of all times, the religious, some, will compare him as a reborn savior.

[oberliner]

9. That sounds about right

[Orsino]

10. There may be some serious negotiation.

But Trump will not be involved, not even a little bit. He'll show up to shake hands over what others decide, or just blame others if nothing comes of the summit.

[duforsure]

11. He'll feed the media his phony taking points

claiming something totally not true, and promote propaganda claiming Kim's and him are saving the world, only it'll all be more of his BS, nothing more . And distraction away from his putin problems and investigations he's desperate to stop against him.

[ehrnst]

16. So...You were wrong about Democratic leaders in Congress. Dead wrong.

Care to comment?

Link to tweet

http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/391787-dem-leaders-hit-trump-on-north-korea-summit

https://www.democraticleader.gov/newsroom/61218/

Perhaps your dim view of the Democrats belongs on JPR rather than here, where actual progressives have conversations.

You were also dead wrong about the media coverage - even the Heritage Foundation is blasting him.

Link to tweet

https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/12/asia/kim-trump-success-for-north-korea-intl/index.html

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/06/trumps-effusive-unsettling-flattery-of-kim-jong-un/562619/

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-singapore-summit-was-a-bustfor-the-us-at-least

https://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/06/trump-kim-summit-was-a-good-photo-op-and-maybe-nothing-more.html

You were also wrong about his approval rating shooting to over 50%

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/political_updates/prez_track_jun12

http://www.newsweek.com/trump-approval-rating-highest-north-korea-906335

[Yavin4]

17. Okay. I was wrong.

I was pleasantly surprised. Although, Democrats could have been more vocal about their views on the summit. It was a good opportunity to communicate a more memorable and effective rebuke. Nonetheless, they did rebuke the trip in their mild way.

[ehrnst]

18. You mean a rebuke like this?

Link to tweet