Whether you are pro or anti Trump, Today is fairly historic, with the first face to face meeting with the POTUS and the leader of North Korea. With Trump fresh off what to all accounts seems to have been a pretty unproductive G7 meeting (I guess it depends on what you define as productive, but the United States didn't sign off on anything from the G7 meeting, so clearly Trump didn't get enough of what he wanted from the meeting).
An argument can be made that the meeting happening at all is progress, and given the heated rhetoric that was bouncing back and forth between Trump and Kim Jong Un, a meeting is a step up, the real question is just what the heck the meeting hopes to accomplish.
When this meeting was announced, I didn't expect it to actually happen. I would have bet that it wouldn't happen, but it has happened. Just what will come of it remains to be seen. There is a question as to whether this is even a good thing, since there really doesn't seem to be any movement when it comes to Human Rights in North Korea.
To be fair, the United States is not a stranger to dealing with dictators, but we'll see if any actual movement on that front is made, but even if it isn't, there is an open question as to whether that is of secondary importance to North Korea's nuclear weapons.
I don't expect this meeting to be terribly productive, but I was wrong about it even happening, so we'll see what happens.
Survivor White House watch.
Giuliani still there as Lawyer
John F. Kelly still there as Chief of Staff
Jeff Sessions still there as Attorney General
Sarah Huckabee Sanders still there as Press Secretary
Mike Pompeo - Secretary of State
John Bolton - National Security Advisor
John Bolton - National Security Advisor
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