You can tell when Donald Trump has just achieved something: he starts being strangely amiable, and his critics start frothing at the mouth.
He’s just met supposedly one of the most dangerous, evil men in the world — and made him look like a sweet overgrown child. He and Kim Jong-un just signed an agreement — we’ll see what it contains shortly — and all the rolling news anchors talking about how ‘historic’ it is are for once not exaggerating.
‘Today, we had a historic meeting and decided to leave the past behind and we are about to sign the historic document,’ Kim said. ‘The world will see a major change.’ He also thanked Trump for the summit. ‘We’re going to take care of a very big and very dangerous problem for the world,’ said Trump.
Trump ducked the question everybody wants to know — has Kim promised full denuclearisation? And no doubt anything short of Kim of promising to turn into a post-Soviet Far Eastern version of Gandhi will be greeted with derision.
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