Politicians lie about small things all the time. Most politicians take care to tell lies they can get away with because they can't easily be confirmed as a lie by the public. They often use carefully crafted statements to accomplish this.
Trump's comments about the crowd size were not worse in a moral sense, just stupider.
Yes, stupider and less connected to reality. I wasn't trying to make a moral argument.
And now he is claiming to have arranged face-to-face talks with North Korea... maybe... but then the white house claims that denuclearization is still a precondition... sort of... and no one knows WTF to believe. This is the problem with having a President who is disconnected from reality. Does anyone really want Trump in a face-to-face with NK? If patterns hold, he will go off script, make tons of promises and then walk those promises back within a week of the meeting. Someone needs to convince him this is a bad idea. Help us Fox & Friends, you're our only hope...
Trump will probably go in all smiles and fall for the charm. He'll say North Korea was really great, great people, strong leader and that (thanks to him) denuclearisation is going to happen.
Trump has many faces. When he's around the chinese leader, they are Americas greatest friends, says the same thing around the Australian leader. Every leader it seems. He certainly seem to fall for the Saudi charm.
Your president is easily manipulated because his huge ego can't deny the diplomatic charms others give. Let's just hope in the talks with Mr Kim, he has a decent bullshit filter.
That said, talking bullshit or not is better than threats of nuclear death from opposite ends of the world. Let it play out and see where it goes
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