The Road To Singapore II: Excitement in the Air

"There's excitement in the air.”

---Donald Trump before setting one foot outside the plane.  

Once there was this guy who suggested that the President of the United States could possibly meet with the leader of a rogue state such as North Korea, Sean Hannity ripped this person’s “lack of foreign policy expertise” and called the idea “disturbing” and “naïve.” 

 

Now that a President has actually winged his away across oceans and continents to meet the leader of North Korea, Hannity can hardly control his slobbering as he kisses this guy’s ass. He said that the mere “willingness to meet with North Korea is a huge foreign policy win.”

What changed for Sean Hannity?

The first guy was Barack Obama. The second guy is Donald Trump. 

The GOP, Fox News pundits and Trump himself gave Obama shit over the very stuff that Trump is doing now and getting praised for by his sniveling sycophants. 

Well, this is nothing new.  As foreign policy scholar Tom Wright recently put it on Twitter: “If a President Bernie Sanders were doing exactly what [Trump] is doing on North Korea (summit, praising Kim, weird letters, trying to pull troops out, sidelining Japan), the Congress would be going haywire, considering impeachment, emergency veto proof measures, etc.”

Trump flouts his lack of preparation or interest in the gritty details as an asset, emphasizing his intuition. “I think I’m very well prepared. I don’t think I have to prepare very much. It’s about the attitude.”

Imagine a President Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders saying that, or even Barack Obama. Devin Nunes would be drafting up articles of impeachment so fast, it would make your head spin.  

Whether Li’l Donnie succeeds or fails is almost beside the point to his supporters. When Trump landed in Singapore, touting the “excitement in the air” despite not setting a foot outside, his former communications staffer Jason Miller tweeted, “Clinton couldn’t do it. Bush couldn’t do it. Obama couldn’t do it. Trump IS doing it!”

So how are things in Singapore?

That’s coming up next.