I listened to Trump's press conference while cleaning behind the bookcases*. I learned that his memory is so good he doesn't need to have any information archived, and I also learned that no previous American president could manage to do anything about the problem of the Korean peninsula, because they weren't focused on it, and even if they were, they didn't have Trump's negotiation skills or the great people he has.
I also learned that Trump loves Kim Jong-un**, but he doesn't love Justin Trudeau, and the iconic photograph of the G7 meeting where Angela Merkel appears to scold him is just not real, because he gets on with Merkel very well. And of course I learned that this short summit was a great success.
Which it may well have been, at least for North Korea***, given that I didn't catch anything about how the promised denuclearization of the country would be verified. Perhaps that is something for future "hashing-out of details?"
And all those pesky human rights violations? Well, the two countries may become more similar over time through a different developmental path, what with the current US practice of separating children from their parents at the southern border, for those who lack proper travel documents.
I don't want to be too cynical. A face-to-face meeting of the two "dictators" is certainly a noteworthy event and could well lead to some easing of the tensions in the two Koreans if competent people continue the needed negotiations.
Finally, here's the picture of Trump with Kim Jong-un and the flags of the two countries. I'm going to momentarily cease my slightly more serious writing to note that aliens from outer space would get weird ideas about Terran men's hairstyles if all they had as evidence was this one picture:
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* Yes, I am bonkers. But I'm also getting rid of hundreds of books.
The bookcases are tall, not moved for years, because books have the odd habit of multiplying when removed from the shelves and then there's no floor-space to move the cases. I found dog hair behind them and one embroidery I had forgotten I made.
** He loves dictators, warlords and strong men, probably, because he loves adulation and people who wish to keep their heads attached to their necks will adulate the dictators, warlords or strong men who hold the power over them. Trump wants that adulation.
He doesn't love democratically elected leaders, because they are all beta men or crooked women and weak. Very weak.
*** Even getting the dictator normalized by having him stand next to America's very own dictator-to-be is a victory. And Trump seemed to promise to cease the military training exercises that the US military has been carrying out with the South Koreans. That came as a surprise for many South Koreans and the US military stationed there.