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I expected a silly exhibition in good fun for charity. I was shocked to discover both of them showed actual competence in the ring. They knew what they were doing.

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Dennis Rodman was either drunk or on drugs (delusional) when he said I wanted to go to North Korea with him. Glad I fired him on Apprentice!

6:39 PM - 7 May 2014

During a news conference in Singapore following the signing of his agreement with Kim Jong Un, President Trump was repeatedly pressed about how he can be sure North Korea is serious about denuclearizing, given that the agreement doesn’t include any verification provisions. He had no answers.

At one point, a reporter asked Trump whether he and Kim discussed “methods to verify” the denuclearization process. Trump responded by saying, “Well, it’s gonna be achieved by having a lot of people there, and as we develop a certain trust.”

Asked later why he thinks North Korea will follow through on promises this time when they haven’t in the past, Trump said, “well, you have a different administration. You have a different president.”

Later, however, Trump had a moment of radical honesty. Asked by a reporter what he’ll do if Kim “doesn’t follow through” on his promises, Trump openly admitted that he’ll never admit he was wrong, but will instead obfuscate.

“Honestly, I think he’s going to do these things. I may be wrong,” Trump said. “I may stand before you in six months and say, ‘hey, I was wrong.’ I don’t know that I’ll admit that but I’ll find some kind of an excuse.”

As ThinkProgress detailed, there’s nothing in Trump’s agreement with Kim “that actually defines any of the goals or how they will be achieved, just a commitment, on both sides, ‘to work toward complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.'”

In exchange, Trump has agreed to end joint U.S.-South Korean military exercises — though as is the case with denuclearization, it’s unclear how the process of ending those will be implemented.

South Korean and American military leaders were caught off guard by the agreement, which Trump admitted during the news conference was negotiated during a period where he hadn’t slept in more than a day.

1. The United States and the DPRK commit to establish new US-DPRK relations in accordance with the desire of the peoples of the two countries for peace and prosperity


2. The United States and the DPRK will join their efforts to build a lasting and stable peace regime on the Korean Peninsula


3. Reaffirming the April 27, 2018 Panmunjom Declaration, the DPRK commits to work toward complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula


4. The United States and the DPRK commit to recovering POW/MIA remains, including the immediate repatriation of those already identified.

It takes a whole new level of weakness to be afraid of the Canadians...

I have traced my family back to the 9th century.

It means nothing.

True. Just interesting.

Where did you find the related document?

maporsche wrote:

revelette1 wrote:

This president is such a petulant child. Look at him pouting...

You see what you see. I see someone sitting and thinking "tell me something I don't know". And it looks like Merkel is coming up short.

Is the Japanese leader pouting too? He looks like he thinking "more of this multiculture bullshit".

I think the leftist media cherry-picked the one photograph out of a series that would be misinterpreted as confrontational and ignored the rest of the pictures.

You're right, big deal.