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Opinion piece on Vox why the Korea Summit never should have been taken seriously (and was doomed from the beginning):
https://www.vox.com/2018/5/24/173887...orea-diplomacy
It lists Trumpüs past as con artist (like with Trump university or his unpaid bills to contractors) and then shows how his trend of lying and making promises that he doesn't keep continued with his presidency (like with the "terrific replacement for Obamacare, that will be much bette and will cover many more people", the promised renegotiations of medicine prices for Medicaid, the 1 Trillion Dollar package for the Infrastructure and many many more) and then asks why so many many people, including the Mainstream Media, suddenly assumed that Trump would suddenly have changed and would,m for once, actually fulfill his promises with regards toi the North Korea Summit.
Lets hope that Mainstream media actually acts according to this principle.
It was rather embarassing to see CNN (for example) turned into such uncritical Trump-Administration-Fanbois with regards to North Korea like they were in the past 2 weeks
https://www.vox.com/2018/5/24/173887...orea-diplomacy
It lists Trumpüs past as con artist (like with Trump university or his unpaid bills to contractors) and then shows how his trend of lying and making promises that he doesn't keep continued with his presidency (like with the "terrific replacement for Obamacare, that will be much bette and will cover many more people", the promised renegotiations of medicine prices for Medicaid, the 1 Trillion Dollar package for the Infrastructure and many many more) and then asks why so many many people, including the Mainstream Media, suddenly assumed that Trump would suddenly have changed and would,m for once, actually fulfill his promises with regards toi the North Korea Summit.
This is not controversial. Everyone in the Washington and media elite knew this but set aside all the evidence to believe that Trump is someone else and might actually take negotiations seriously and usher in a major diplomatic breakthrough with North Korea. The ultimate collapse of the summit is a valuable opportunity to try to make sure we do a better job next time, and not only take note of Trump’s lies and nonsense when his statements are proven to be dishonest nonsense but to be preemptively skeptical of new claims he makes.
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A good clue that we were being set up is that not only is the Trump administration’s North Korea policy being headed up by Donald Trump, but it has been conducted so far like you would expect a bull****ter to conduct policy.
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The ultimate collapse of the talks is probably better than any realistic alternative would have been. But until this week, much of the mainstream press — Time, the New York Times, CNN, etc. — was obsessed with the possibility that maybe Trump will deliver a historic diplomatic breakthrough with Pyongyang and then not receive the level of credit and adulation he deserves.
It’s good that Trump gave up the ghost here rather than trying to fake his way through a summit. But it’s critical that the country’s political and media establishment try to actually learn its lesson here. Trump lies about a lot of things. He talks nonsense constantly. And while those of us who don’t work in the White House can’t stop him from doing those things, we can certainly cover him as a habitual liar and bull****ter rather than waking up each morning like we’ve never seen Trump in action before.
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A good clue that we were being set up is that not only is the Trump administration’s North Korea policy being headed up by Donald Trump, but it has been conducted so far like you would expect a bull****ter to conduct policy.
...
The ultimate collapse of the talks is probably better than any realistic alternative would have been. But until this week, much of the mainstream press — Time, the New York Times, CNN, etc. — was obsessed with the possibility that maybe Trump will deliver a historic diplomatic breakthrough with Pyongyang and then not receive the level of credit and adulation he deserves.
It’s good that Trump gave up the ghost here rather than trying to fake his way through a summit. But it’s critical that the country’s political and media establishment try to actually learn its lesson here. Trump lies about a lot of things. He talks nonsense constantly. And while those of us who don’t work in the White House can’t stop him from doing those things, we can certainly cover him as a habitual liar and bull****ter rather than waking up each morning like we’ve never seen Trump in action before.
Lets hope that Mainstream media actually acts according to this principle.
It was rather embarassing to see CNN (for example) turned into such uncritical Trump-Administration-Fanbois with regards to North Korea like they were in the past 2 weeks
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