Just kiss his ring it’s all he cares aboutby digby
People are figuring this out. But since he’s so unstable and stupid, it probably won’t work anyway:
As South Korea presses ahead with efforts to bring a large North Korean delegation to the Winter Olympics in PyeongChang next month, it is willingly agreeing to North Korea’s demands.
But Trump, a former businessman who prides himself on being a masterful negotiator, is claiming — and getting — most of the credit for the sudden burst of Olympics-related diplomacy between the two Koreas.
During a Jan. 4 phone call in which the South Korean leader briefed the American president on the plans for talks with North Korea, Trump asked Moon to publicly give him the credit for creating the environment for the talks, according to people familiar with the conversation.
(In these conversations, Trump calls his counterpart “Jae-in” — an unimaginable informality in Korean business etiquette. Moon calls Trump “Mr. President.”)
He is Moon’s superior, obviously. And he demands respect. That is what he meant when he said he would have the world respect America again. What could go wrong?
Later that night, Trump tweeted that the talks wouldn’t be happening “if I wasn’t firm, strong and willing to commit our total ‘might’ against the North.”
At a news conference six days later, Moon agreed Trump deserved “huge credit” for the talks.
This is what he wants. And in some cases it’s the best way to get to a decent policy. But since he’s a mercurial moron, there’s no way to know if it’s going to stick.
And the damage this charade does to our country is substantial. Forcing everyone to pretend the King is “winning” just to survive opens the door to the kind of palace intrigue we are seeing with Tom Cotton, Stephen Miller and John Kelly manipulating him for their own authoritarian purposes.
You may think Trump is essentially a buffoon. They aren’t. They are something much, much darker.
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