The Stunt

Donald Trump walked a few feet into North Korea over the weekend in a staged photo op and met briefly with the hermit regime's brutal dictator Kim Jong-un. The right-wing media and Republicans have been in breathy hyperbole ever since, talking once again about Trump deserving a Nobel Peace Prize and how the moment was "historic."

The Guardian published an excellent editorial (link here) that exposed this for what it was -- nothing more than a stunt and certainly not anything historic.

"That something is happening for the first time does not make it inherently momentous," the piece notes. "There is a reason why [Trump's] predecessors never did this, just as they never met Kim’s father and grandfather. It gives legitimacy and status to a state responsible for what the UN has called unparalleled human rights atrocities."

Trump reminds me of the child who dresses in his or her parent's clothes and pretends to be an adult. But it's only pretense. Trump is the same way, dressing up like a statesman and playacting the photo op, but he achieves no actual results except to further strengthen the bloodthirsty Kim at America -- and the world's -- expense.