Someone will have to pass the Pepto.
Donald J. Trump and Kim Jong Un were supposed to meet June 12 in a historic summit between the leaders of the United States and North Korea.
Then the meeting was cancelled. Trump said Kim was saying a lot of nasty things about the United States. The president would have none of it.
The meeting is off, right?
Not precisely. The United States is sending a team to Singapore to discuss planning for, um, the meeting that might occur after all.
Man, I am baffled!
Then there’s this from The Hill: Defense Secretary Jim Mattis was also coy but suggested that summit planning is progressing. “We have got some, possibly some good news on the Korea summit, where it may, if our diplomats can pull it off, may have it back on even,” Mattis told reporters. “Our president just sent out a note about that a few moments ago … That is a usual give-and-take, you know, of trying to put together big summits and stuff.”
I want the meeting to occur. It holds tremendous promise and potential for peace in a region still technically “at war.”
But I’m curious as to Donald Trump’s strategy here. On again. Maybe it’s off. Or, maybe it’s on. Back and forth. Up and down. In and out.
I need to sit down.