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garybeck

(9,939 posts)
Thu May 24, 2018, 02:20 PM May 2018

Get it straight: Trump did not "cancel the meeting" with NK.

Last edited Thu May 24, 2018, 05:41 PM - Edit history (3)

Go back and read the headlines over the last couple weeks.

NK stopped responding to Trump several days ago. Trump and the administration have been in the dark for days. They don't know what is up with Un and NK. Our guess is as good as theirs. All the reports of the last week or more indicate that the White House lost communication with NK and hasn't been sure what is going to happen.

This is not Trump pulling the plug on the meeting. This is Un leaving Trump out in the rain, guessing what the heck is going on. Looking like the idiot he is.

First the admin made a statement, "we are still operating under the assumption that there will be a meeting." Then just days ago Trump said, "maybe there will be a meeting. maybe there won't be a meeting. If there isn't a meeting, it will be very interesting."

In other words, you have no idea, and they aren't answering your calls! Well guess what, Kim stood you up, you fool! He's not coming! And he's not going to call and tell you he's not coming. That is "very interesting," isn't it? You got shafted, Mr. Nobel Wannabe!

Someone in the admin saw the writing on the wall (most surely not Trump because that would require the use of a brain), and decided to spin the story and claim that he decided to cancel the meeting. Pure BS.

Trump was played the fool, yet again, and his attempt to make it look like he "cancelled the meeting" was a last ditch effort to save his pathetic orange face.

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Get it straight: Trump did not "cancel the meeting" with NK. (Original Post) garybeck May 2018 OP
I'm breaking up with you. The Velveteen Ocelot May 2018 #1
You just upped David Corn's game and he's laughing Brother Buzz May 2018 #7
Someone replied, "Breaking up is dotard to do." Ilsa May 2018 #17
LOL NewJeffCT May 2018 #14
Well, North Korea... LuckyCharms May 2018 #2
Maybe they have another one somewhere. The Velveteen Ocelot May 2018 #3
BBC says it is their only test site. LuckyCharms May 2018 #4
How does BBC know for sure? The Velveteen Ocelot May 2018 #5
I don't know...just saying that is what they are reporting. LuckyCharms May 2018 #8
Libya. US backstabbing Qaddafi after he went in on a nuclear agreement. DemocracyMouse May 2018 #22
One cannot hide a nuke test site. longship May 2018 #31
they had to destroy it garybeck May 2018 #23
"...morans who were trying to nominate him for a nobel prize. now they look like fools too." pangaia May 2018 #34
That's what I suspected too duforsure May 2018 #6
i'm not saying i trust Kim... i'm saying garybeck May 2018 #9
You are probably right duforsure May 2018 #18
The hardest part of your post to believe is that Trump saw the writing on the wall. Jim__ May 2018 #10
yes you are right on that i'm sure. n/t garybeck May 2018 #12
The writing on every wall everywhere says "Fuck You." The Velveteen Ocelot May 2018 #15
Yes!!! But, it was not Bolton -- probably Mnuchin's wife. Too bad NCjack May 2018 #16
Yes, he was having a hard time with "see" and "writing" hatrack May 2018 #19
Are you implying he "gasp" doesn't know how to read. olegramps May 2018 #29
He does seem to know what a wall is. rzemanfl May 2018 #37
They stop responding to Bolton, they hate even the image of him uponit7771 May 2018 #11
THIS THIS THIS IT'S FUCKING BOLTON GusBob May 2018 #24
trump wants everyone to think he cancelled it. spanone May 2018 #13
It conflicted with H2O Man May 2018 #20
... TommyCelt May 2018 #21
The text of the letter....OMG TommyCelt May 2018 #25
There was a 'crawler" or banner at the bottom on CNN with Brooke Baldwin pangaia May 2018 #35
Trump prob still doesn't understand, and will be packed and ready for the trip when the day comes. C Moon May 2018 #26
With his golf clubs and favorite caddy packed, too. :) nt Honeycombe8 May 2018 #30
You can't fire me ... GeorgeGist May 2018 #27
Bwahahahaha. Good catch. He was flipped off by "Rocket Man." nt Honeycombe8 May 2018 #28
Dueling egos - two dangerous narcissistic psychopaths. KY_EnviroGuy May 2018 #32
He'll still get his Nobel Prize, right? SergeStorms May 2018 #33
Trump was "ghosted." Lisa0825 May 2018 #36
yup. n/t garybeck May 2018 #39
First Iran, now North Korea... Scurrilous May 2018 #38

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,589 posts)
1. I'm breaking up with you.
Thu May 24, 2018, 02:26 PM
May 2018

You were mean to me and you wanted to break up with me but you can't because I'm breaking up with you. The prom is OFF. It's over. You can still call me, but it's OVER!!! Please call me.

LuckyCharms

(17,413 posts)
8. I don't know...just saying that is what they are reporting.
Thu May 24, 2018, 02:42 PM
May 2018

In any case, it seems to me to lean to being a show of seriousness on their part, even though the site had partially collapsed previously.

longship

(40,416 posts)
31. One cannot hide a nuke test site.
Thu May 24, 2018, 05:00 PM
May 2018

Seismologists the world over would be on it like stink on shit. That's how everybody knows that the DPRK destroyed this test site with their last test.

You just cannot hide these things.


garybeck

(9,939 posts)
23. they had to destroy it
Thu May 24, 2018, 03:50 PM
May 2018

it was collapsing.

the fact that it had to be destroyed was most likely the impetus to play games with Donald.

Un won that round....

Trump thought he was about to get a Nobel Prize. Now he looks like a fool trying to make it look like he was in the driver seat but in fact he was second guessing every one of Un's moves and he still has no idea what is next.

the icing on the cake is the morans who were trying to nominate him for a nobel prize. now they look like fools too.

pangaia

(24,324 posts)
34. "...morans who were trying to nominate him for a nobel prize. now they look like fools too."
Thu May 24, 2018, 05:31 PM
May 2018

probably not to the other morans


duforsure

(11,884 posts)
6. That's what I suspected too
Thu May 24, 2018, 02:42 PM
May 2018

Kim could see what they were trying to do , and their rhetoric, so he did the smart thing and declined, and for all we know he officially let them know and they're lying , again, about what has happened. You know its getting really, really bad when you trust a dictator like Kim over a trump.

garybeck

(9,939 posts)
9. i'm not saying i trust Kim... i'm saying
Thu May 24, 2018, 02:52 PM
May 2018

Kim is smarter than Trump and he played Trump from the very beginning. Probably never intended to have a meeting.

duforsure

(11,884 posts)
18. You are probably right
Thu May 24, 2018, 03:33 PM
May 2018

And he did it to give himself time, and make sure both Russia and China were on his side. He'll produce his missiles now no matter what trump wants to do to him, because Russia and China won't let the orange shxxhole do anything to him. Massive failure, probably the greatest foreign policy failure of all time. People laughing at him around the world now too. Got played by a little country leader who has made him look like a fool in front of the world. Not that he needed much help doing that. Everyone saying what a fool he's been shown to be by Kim. Most saw this coming.

Jim__

(14,063 posts)
10. The hardest part of your post to believe is that Trump saw the writing on the wall.
Thu May 24, 2018, 02:57 PM
May 2018

Someone must have explained it to him.

NCjack

(10,279 posts)
16. Yes!!! But, it was not Bolton -- probably Mnuchin's wife. Too bad
Thu May 24, 2018, 03:23 PM
May 2018

Trump will not figure out what happened. But, if he wants to get the NKs to the table, he needs to shut two yappers' mouths: his own and Bolton's. The two of them are stumble bums.

hatrack

(59,578 posts)
19. Yes, he was having a hard time with "see" and "writing"
Thu May 24, 2018, 03:40 PM
May 2018

Tough concepts, unlike "wall" - he's somewhat familiar with that.

olegramps

(8,200 posts)
29. Are you implying he "gasp" doesn't know how to read.
Thu May 24, 2018, 04:59 PM
May 2018

I think he knows the words but lacks basic comprehension skills. He reads his speeches like a robot. I can't stand his monotone moaning. This reminds me of my history prof who said the scariest thing is that anybody could actually become president.

"On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."

HL Mencken July 1920

spanone

(135,792 posts)
13. trump wants everyone to think he cancelled it.
Thu May 24, 2018, 03:01 PM
May 2018

exactly

you don't start a summit by telling your summit foes that you want to kill them and that's what bolton and pence did.

the world can no longer trust the us of a

TommyCelt

(838 posts)
25. The text of the letter....OMG
Thu May 24, 2018, 03:56 PM
May 2018
"You talk about your nuclear capabilities, but ours are so massive and powerful that I pray to God we will never have to use them."

The George Carlin skit about the BIGGER DICK foreign policy was a JOKE, you fucking dotard!!!!

pangaia

(24,324 posts)
35. There was a 'crawler" or banner at the bottom on CNN with Brooke Baldwin
Thu May 24, 2018, 05:38 PM
May 2018

that said the WH was stating for all the world to know that the fucking moron actually wrote the entire letter himself.

All by is little selfie....


C Moon

(12,209 posts)
26. Trump prob still doesn't understand, and will be packed and ready for the trip when the day comes.
Thu May 24, 2018, 04:25 PM
May 2018

"But, what about my Peace Prize?"

KY_EnviroGuy

(14,488 posts)
32. Dueling egos - two dangerous narcissistic psychopaths.
Thu May 24, 2018, 05:01 PM
May 2018

Lets hope the dueling remains only in the exchanging of words, not something more lethal.

Would someone please mail Bolton some new toy soldiers and guns to play with.

....... ..........

SergeStorms

(19,186 posts)
33. He'll still get his Nobel Prize, right?
Thu May 24, 2018, 05:15 PM
May 2018

I mean....he tried. Shouldn't he at least get a "participation" trophy?

Asshole!

Lisa0825

(14,487 posts)
36. Trump was "ghosted."
Thu May 24, 2018, 08:23 PM
May 2018

ghost-ing
noun
The practice of ending a personal relationship with someone by suddenly and without explanation withdrawing from all communication.

Scurrilous

(38,687 posts)
38. First Iran, now North Korea...
Thu May 24, 2018, 10:05 PM
May 2018

....sounds like Bolton's getting the old axis of evil back together again.

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