So, Trump just reversed his own Treasury Department’s sanctions on North Korea:
His spokesman says the president canceled his own government’s sanctions on North Korea because “President Trump likes Chairman Kim, and he doesn’t think these sanctions will be necessary.”
https://t.co/pHvdTwDgWn— Steve Inskeep (@NPRinskeep) March 22, 2019
More at The Times.
To recap, you can be a top contender for the planet’s most horrifying despot, starve millions of people, feed relatives who’ve annoyed you to packs of dogs / execute them with anti-aircraft fire, develop nukes and bomb delivery systems that threaten millions of Americans and citizens of allied nations, etc. But if you compliment Trump’s absurd bouffant and write flowery letters addressing him as “Your Excellency,” it’s all good.
This sort of thing tends to flush out neocons, who will descend on news show panels to denounce the move with quavering jowls. That’ll be Trump’s cue to repeat the lie that he brought the U.S. back from the brink of all-out war with North Korea.
He’s going to get that Nobel Peace Prize, damn it, and if he has to give away U.S. leverage and force the world to accept that a lunatic can have the ability to incinerate millions of people anywhere in the world on a whim to obtain that prize, that’s okay with Trump. The fact that a guy follows Trump around with nuclear codes is a convincing argument that that particular bag is bereft of cats these days anyway.