RUSH: Trump\u2019s G7 performance setting up Kim Jong-un and then preannouncing that he\u2019s leaving this summit early. You know the Drive-Bys are beside themselves over that too. Actually they\u2019re not. The Drive-Bys are happy. They think it means failure. Trump\u2019s not even staying the full three days. Well, obviously that means Kim Jong-un\u2019s gotten the best of Trump. That\u2019s what they\u2019re writing. That\u2019s what they\u2019re reporting.<\/p>\n
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It can\u2019t possibly be that in all of the work leading up to the summit — and believe me, there\u2019s a lot of stuff that goes on before the summit happens — and I\u2019ll tell you this. If the pre-work had not been to the benefit of the United States, Trump would not have gone over there, folks. That\u2019s just the way it is.<\/p>\n
All of these summits, there\u2019s a lot of planning and a lot of negotiating that goes on even before the two leaders meet. And in many cases, the full-fledged agreement is made before they meet. The meeting is simply symbolic. And that\u2019s statecraft. That\u2019s how it\u2019s always been.<\/p>\n
Now, with Reagan and Gorbachev there were a couple, like in Iceland at Reykjavik that strayed from the script when Gorbachev tried to pull a fast one on Reagan. Reagan walked out. But I\u2019ll guarantee you, if all of the preliminary negotiations between us and the Norks and whoever\u2019s working with us with the Norks, like South Korea and maybe the ChiComs, if it had been looking like Kim Jong-un was doing this for just a photo-op, Trump would have canceled the thing and not even shown up.<\/p>\n
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So now Trump is gonna go, he\u2019s there, and the White House announced that they\u2019re leaving after 24 hours. Gonna be leaving at 8:15 local time tomorrow night instead of staying all the way through Wednesday. Now, me, as a natural optimist, that tells me that things are gonna be even better than thought. But the Drive-Bys are reporting it\u2019s obviously a failure. Trump is obviously realized he\u2019s been outsmarted by Kim Jong-un. They\u2019re writing that.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve even read a report that, you know, Kim Jong-un went for a late-night tourist drive 10:25 local time which is about I guess 11:30 here. The Drive-Bys got all excited \u2019cause Kim Jong-un got in his little miniature caravan of American-made vehicles and started driving around town. Kim Jong-un, they thought he might be going to a nightclub. They thought he might be going to see a caning center, whatever, they wanted to follow, and they did.<\/p>\n
And just like with Reagan and Gorbachev summits, the media is making Kim Jong-un out to be the guy who knows what he\u2019s doing. Ronald Reagan had no clue how to deal with Gorbachev. Gorbachev was gonna make mincemeat of Reagan and save the world at the same time.<\/p>\n
Well, Kim Jong-un is going to show Donald Trump how it\u2019s done. And I have just the opposite take. And I don\u2019t know if we will ever know the details, but I\u2019d be really surprised if Trump did not raise a serious set of demands about Iran and North Korea, because they do have a bilateral agreement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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