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05-28-2018, 11:26 PM
Maybe he's not the best but the worst dealmaker? WaPo may be inching towards crossing the line again:
Trump may be the worst presidential dealmaker in modern history
Why the North Korea summit was doomed to fail
The Post's Adam Taylor explains what led up to President Trump's May 24 letter to North Korea leader Kim Jong Un and what to expect going forward.
By Jackson Diehl Deputy Editorial Page Editor May 27 at 7:03 PM
When May began, President Trump was presiding over diplomatic negotiations that could have delivered twin triumphs for his administration. Now, on Memorial Day, he’s reaping the wreckage of talks about Iran, and the North Korea process is in limbo. He has badly strained relations with vital U.S. allies and raised the risk of military conflicts in the Middle East and Asia. He has gone from would-be Nobel Prize winner to commander in chief of chaos.
National security adviser John Bolton and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, the new axis of the president’s national security team, deserve some credit for this mess: Both prefer open confrontation with U.S. adversaries to the more nuanced approaches sold to Trump by their predecessors. But in essence the past month has been a decisive demonstration of Trump’s unwillingness — or, more likely, inability — to grapple with the complexities of international affairs. It’s a deficit that already is being skillfully exploited by U.S. adversaries, such as China — and it could lead to catastrophe before we get through another 2 1 / 2 years.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/trump-may-be-the-worst-presidential-dealmaker-in-modern-history/2018/05/27/b2686512-5f79-11e8-a4a4-c070ef53f315_story.html
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05/28/2018
Republicans Who Thought North Korea Summit Would Save Election Now Rebooting
Just the prospect of a peace deal appeared to boost Trump’s poll numbers. So what would a collapsed deal do?
By S.V. Date
https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/5b0c6be42000004100b92c3d.jpeg?ops=scalefit_720_nou pscale Kim Hong-Ji / Reuters
A man wearing a Trump mask kneels between cutouts of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in during an anti-Trump rally in Seoul, South Korea, on May 25, 2018.
WASHINGTON ― While President Donald Trump may have seen a successful summit with North Korea’s dictator as the path to a Nobel Peace Prize, many leaders in the Republican Party had eyed a more practical benefit: an aid to retaining control of Congress.
Now, with the planned June 12 Singapore summit in off-again, on-again limbo, Republicans wonder if the initiative that had seemed like a godsend just a few weeks ago could instead turn into a curse.
“If it stays off, it’s bad,” said one top GOP fundraiser close to the White House, speaking on the condition of anonymity. He added that he personally never really bought the idea that a Trump meeting with Kim Jong Un would be a game-changer. “If he pulls it off, I don’t think it changes much other than building a narrative of success.”
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/republicans-north-korea-summit-save-election-now-rebooting_us_5b0c6b13e4b0568a880dbdfd
Trump may be the worst presidential dealmaker in modern history
Why the North Korea summit was doomed to fail
The Post's Adam Taylor explains what led up to President Trump's May 24 letter to North Korea leader Kim Jong Un and what to expect going forward.
By Jackson Diehl Deputy Editorial Page Editor May 27 at 7:03 PM
When May began, President Trump was presiding over diplomatic negotiations that could have delivered twin triumphs for his administration. Now, on Memorial Day, he’s reaping the wreckage of talks about Iran, and the North Korea process is in limbo. He has badly strained relations with vital U.S. allies and raised the risk of military conflicts in the Middle East and Asia. He has gone from would-be Nobel Prize winner to commander in chief of chaos.
National security adviser John Bolton and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, the new axis of the president’s national security team, deserve some credit for this mess: Both prefer open confrontation with U.S. adversaries to the more nuanced approaches sold to Trump by their predecessors. But in essence the past month has been a decisive demonstration of Trump’s unwillingness — or, more likely, inability — to grapple with the complexities of international affairs. It’s a deficit that already is being skillfully exploited by U.S. adversaries, such as China — and it could lead to catastrophe before we get through another 2 1 / 2 years.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/trump-may-be-the-worst-presidential-dealmaker-in-modern-history/2018/05/27/b2686512-5f79-11e8-a4a4-c070ef53f315_story.html
Related
05/28/2018
Republicans Who Thought North Korea Summit Would Save Election Now Rebooting
Just the prospect of a peace deal appeared to boost Trump’s poll numbers. So what would a collapsed deal do?
By S.V. Date
https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/5b0c6be42000004100b92c3d.jpeg?ops=scalefit_720_nou pscale Kim Hong-Ji / Reuters
A man wearing a Trump mask kneels between cutouts of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in during an anti-Trump rally in Seoul, South Korea, on May 25, 2018.
WASHINGTON ― While President Donald Trump may have seen a successful summit with North Korea’s dictator as the path to a Nobel Peace Prize, many leaders in the Republican Party had eyed a more practical benefit: an aid to retaining control of Congress.
Now, with the planned June 12 Singapore summit in off-again, on-again limbo, Republicans wonder if the initiative that had seemed like a godsend just a few weeks ago could instead turn into a curse.
“If it stays off, it’s bad,” said one top GOP fundraiser close to the White House, speaking on the condition of anonymity. He added that he personally never really bought the idea that a Trump meeting with Kim Jong Un would be a game-changer. “If he pulls it off, I don’t think it changes much other than building a narrative of success.”
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/republicans-north-korea-summit-save-election-now-rebooting_us_5b0c6b13e4b0568a880dbdfd