{"id":29987,"date":"2018-05-27T01:19:38","date_gmt":"2018-05-27T01:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=29987"},"modified":"2018-05-27T01:19:38","modified_gmt":"2018-05-27T01:19:38","slug":"hey-is-the-trump-kim-summit-back-on-or-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=29987","title":{"rendered":"Hey, is the Trump-Kim summit back on &#8230; or what?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/AAxKGGw.img_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-29946\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/AAxKGGw.img_-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/AAxKGGw.img_-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/AAxKGGw.img_-768x433.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/AAxKGGw.img_.jpg 799w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Someone will have to pass the Pepto.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting is off, right?<\/p>\n<p>Not precisely. The United States is sending a team to Singapore to discuss planning for, um, the meeting that might occur after all.<\/p>\n<p>Man, I am baffled!<\/p>\n<p>Then there&#8217;s this from The Hill: <em>Defense Secretary Jim Mattis was also coy but suggested that summit planning is progressing. &#8220;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,&#8221; Mattis told reporters. &#8220;Our president just sent out a note about that a few moments ago &#8230; That is a usual give-and-take, you know, of trying to put together big summits and stuff.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I want the meeting to occur. It holds tremendous promise and potential for peace in a region still technically &#8220;at war.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;m curious as to Donald Trump&#8217;s strategy here. On again. Maybe it&#8217;s off. Or, maybe it&#8217;s on. Back and forth. Up and down. In and out.<\/p>\n<p>I need to sit down.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=29987\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hey, is the Trump-Kim summit back on &#8230; or what?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1424,6705,2681,7787],"class_list":["post-29987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-james-mattis","tag-kim-jong-un","tag-trump-kim-summit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29988,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29987\/revisions\/29988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}