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It's been a busy couple of days for him - despite disrupting the meetings he sat through, he apparently still has an inferiority complex to the other Heads of State; they must have really got to him at the G7 meeting.

First, threatening to stop all trade with his allied countries:

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/06/trump-threatens-to-end-all-trade-with-allies.html

I don't know what 'stop all trade' would really look like...

Then telling Macron that the EU is apparently 'worse than China'.

https://www.axios.com/donald-trump-emmanuel-macron-eu-worse-than-china-trade-tariffs-57f53e00-8b5c-4931-9d05-97ee0b510fd5.html?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=twsocialshare&utm_campaign=organic

you know in those martial arts films where the assassin is sat 10 feet from the ruler surrounded on all sides by the rulers special protection force and in one sudden ninja move the ruler is dead and the assassin is standing over the king with either stealth blade in hand or having done some dr spock style pressure point move

is anyone hoping kim jong un has been practising that move for the last 30 years under the tutelage of some white haired old zen master high in the mountains of deepest japan and his whole leadership has been working towards this one moment, the meeting with trump

I know you're being tongue in cheek but I think one of the worst things that could happen right now would be Trump being assassinated.

This is an interesting illustration of political framing

https://twitter.com/fabreinbold/status/1005533097549598726

(Even if it isn't quite on message with the anti-Trump narrative)

theresa no team

I am pretty sure he never mentioned the heavy Canadian tariff on diary during his electoral campaign?
By all accounts he only found out about it a couple of days ago and now he is throwing all his weight behind this one detail. It's proper ex-girlfriend logic.

The Singaporean government has taken it upon themselves to take Kim Jong Un sightseeing.
To take a dictator who’s got capable nukes out sightseeing seems a bit unusual to me.

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/kim-jong-un-explores-singapore-gardens-by-the-bay-before-summit-10421126

Worse than Kim being bumped off? Not that I advocate either scenarios

how are things over there I imagine it's a bit media coverage crazy

I do kind-of feel bad for the translators who will have to somehow shoehorn Trump's bizarre sentences into Korean.

Do you think they'll clean up his wording or literally translate him word for word? Because if it's the latter...

Gut feeling tells me that we'd be worst off if somebody took Trump out.

literally translate him word for word?

Impossible? What's the Korean for bigly? or covfefe??

It’s a bloody circus. I’ll have some stories to tell in a few days time.

He already sounds like he’s being badly translated - like the instruction manual to a cheap beard trimmer

I thought Kim could speak English?

Well done Donny, you've legitimised a murdering despot.

Which murdering despot? I've lost count

Trump's signature looks like the logo of a black metal band.

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I think it looks like a kid doing one of those handwriting exercises where they have to stay between the lines, except he hasn’t.

He seems totally oblivious to having given kimmy exactly what he wanted with absolutely zero in return. Remarkable.

I'm glad you think this too. Its nuts. Totally nuts.

Maybe he thinks he’s doing something no previous president could or something. And missing that there might have been a good reason for that. I feel a bit sorry for him - it’s like watching me play chess :-/

Ladies and gentleman, introducing the newest validated nuclear power, please give it up for......NORTH KOREA! (Crowd goes wild)

Well done Kim, you've legitimised an egomaniacal wannabe dictator.