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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThey're Meeting in Hanoi!
Think about it. They're not meeting on neutral ground, or even meeting as equals. Trump and Kim are meeting in Hanoi. Who decided on Hanoi?
Trump is so desperate to do something that might be considered Presidential that he has accepted this meeting on Kim's terms, not his. Kim Jong Un has to meet somewhere where the local government will protect him and where he can travel by train and automobile, since his bankrupt country has no reliable air transport. Kim set the location for this so-called "summit." Trump agreed to the meeting place, because he so desperately needs to do something presidential.
So, the President of the United States has flown to Hanoi to meet with a tiny little despot. He has bowed to the demands of someone who heads a bankrupt, penniless nation. Hanoi!
The very idea is absurd. The meeting is absurd. President Donald J. Trump is absurd.
Reductio ad absurdum.
watoos
(7,142 posts)healed up enough for him to make it to Vietnam.
MineralMan
(146,329 posts)HipChick
(25,485 posts)IADEMO2004
(5,559 posts)failed.
Lonestarblue
(10,063 posts)If the choice was Kims, the location is symbolic of a major US defeat in Vietnam after losing thousands of US lives and gaining nothing. The choice sends a message of defeat in a site of humiliation for the US.
My first thought if Trump chose the location is that the Hanoi Hilton is where John McCain was imprisoned and tortured. Trump is just sick enough to choose the location as a symbolic FU to a dead hero who refused to kowtow to him on a few very important votes that denied Trump something he badly wanted.
Johnny2X2X
(19,114 posts)He'll say something like, "Hanoi is really very nice, not like what you might have heard, it's quite beautiful. Anyone who would claim about being here really wasn't very tough."
IADEMO2004
(5,559 posts)Nothing is too low for our pResident.
dameatball
(7,399 posts)nothing. Trump will probably arrive back in the USA, climb down the stairs from Air Force One wearing nothing but a barrel and declare victory.
MineralMan
(146,329 posts)as a world-leading nation. We are known by our leadership, and Trump is the worst leader I can imagine for this country.
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MineralMan
(146,329 posts)duforsure
(11,885 posts)Is just another PR event to lie about claiming something falsely, again. Kim with putin;s help has played trump like a fiddle, and now he's going to lie like a dog claiming he's done something great, when he hasn't, and its all BS again. HE had to consult with putin first shows how much of a puppet for him he's become. trump's a fraud seeking attention by lying what's really going on, and like he did with his putin meeting , and hiding all notes. You trust trump's word, I got a bridge to sell you.
VMA131Marine
(4,149 posts)and Kim flew in. So that pretty much destroys the premise of your second paragraph.
TBH, I'd much rather Trump go to Hanoi than have Kim come to Washington.
panader0
(25,816 posts)But Hanoi is no longer an enemy city. It is beautiful and vibrant, in spite of
what the US tried to do. My daughter and her husband visited there recently
and loved it.
But yeah, "the very idea is absurd. The meeting is absurd. President Donald
J. Trump is absurd."
But Hanoi is cool.
Mr.Bill
(24,319 posts)That would explain it.
MrsCoffee
(5,803 posts)MineralMan
(146,329 posts)JDC
(10,133 posts)pandr32
(11,611 posts)dchill
(38,532 posts)the "importance" of this shit show charade. He won't be anywhere near it, he's too important to waste the time on a second-rate farce.
pandr32
(11,611 posts)I agree
Hekate
(90,793 posts)Have we hit bottom yet?
dchill
(38,532 posts)crazytown
(7,277 posts)The US has been courting Vietnam for years. Serious tensions between China and Vietnam risk a military confrontation. https://www.cfr.org/report/china-vietnam-military-clash
LongtimeAZDem
(4,494 posts)MineralMan
(146,329 posts)spanone
(135,873 posts)IcyPeas
(21,904 posts)Perhaps he is eyeing it to see if it needs a Trump hotel or golf course..