Donald Trump announced he’s looking forward to another summit with Kim Jong Un. Kim responded the traditional North Korean way: by launching a volley of ballistic missiles into the sea. Trump has repeatedly praised his “great relationship” with Kim, apparently operating under the theory that if two people get along personally, one of them will eventually stop building nuclear weapons.
Or, maybe, one of them is being played.
It’s all very reminiscent of when Trump declared at a rally in 2018 that "we fell in love.”
“I was really being tough - and so was he. And we would go back and forth,” Trump said. “And then we fell in love, okay? No, really - he wrote me beautiful letters, and they’re great letters,” he said.
At this point, the Trump-Kim relationship resembles that one friend who keeps insisting, “He’s really a great guy once you get to know him,” while everyone else counts the explosions in the background.