Tonight we got the news that North Korea was suspending nuclear testing and missile testing in exchange for NOTHING. We also learned that the North Koreans no longer were requiring the USA and South Korea to stop joint military exercises before the NK's would enter into any sort of negotiations. Finally we learned that Kim Jung Un asked for a meeting with President Trump to discuss denuclearization of the Korean peninsula.
So what has the reaction of the mainstream media been? Here are a few examples: 1. Rachel Maddow told her audience that it was "risky and foolish" for an American president to meet with the North Korean dictator. Apparently, Maddow has no suggestions about how to end the North Korean march towards nuclear weapons, but she knows that whatever Trump does must be wrong. 2. On CNN, I watched three panelists on Anderson Cooper 180 (they only give one side) tell the audience that there was no way that the USA or Trump could possibly prepared for a meeting with the North Korean leader in the seven weeks or so that remain until May starts (when the meeting is supposed to take place.) These "experts" said that there needed to be "careful study" of the issues before the meeting. So that means that the "experts" on CNN think that no one has studied the issues before now and that the process is only going to start now. 3. I also saw a "presidential historian" tell a TV audience that it would be hard for the USA to do well in these meetings because we would be represented by a "novice" president. Huh? It's that same "novice" president who managed to get the NK's to back down and come to the table. He succeeded while all those other "non-novice" presidents failed.
I know that the mainstream media does not like President Trump. I get that. What I don't get is why the supposed reporters of the mainstream media have to play everything Trump does as a failure. America had a wonderful advance in its foreign policy with these North Korean developments. If you listen to the media, however, you would think these latest developments are the harbingers of doom, indeed, a total disaster. They just cannot bring themselves to speak with approval of anything that Trump does. It's just sad.
So what has the reaction of the mainstream media been? Here are a few examples: 1. Rachel Maddow told her audience that it was "risky and foolish" for an American president to meet with the North Korean dictator. Apparently, Maddow has no suggestions about how to end the North Korean march towards nuclear weapons, but she knows that whatever Trump does must be wrong. 2. On CNN, I watched three panelists on Anderson Cooper 180 (they only give one side) tell the audience that there was no way that the USA or Trump could possibly prepared for a meeting with the North Korean leader in the seven weeks or so that remain until May starts (when the meeting is supposed to take place.) These "experts" said that there needed to be "careful study" of the issues before the meeting. So that means that the "experts" on CNN think that no one has studied the issues before now and that the process is only going to start now. 3. I also saw a "presidential historian" tell a TV audience that it would be hard for the USA to do well in these meetings because we would be represented by a "novice" president. Huh? It's that same "novice" president who managed to get the NK's to back down and come to the table. He succeeded while all those other "non-novice" presidents failed.
I know that the mainstream media does not like President Trump. I get that. What I don't get is why the supposed reporters of the mainstream media have to play everything Trump does as a failure. America had a wonderful advance in its foreign policy with these North Korean developments. If you listen to the media, however, you would think these latest developments are the harbingers of doom, indeed, a total disaster. They just cannot bring themselves to speak with approval of anything that Trump does. It's just sad.
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