Climbing Down from the Summit

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🗓️ 24 May 2018

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

The Trump-Kim meeting is off, and the question is this: If the announcement of thawing relations with North Korea helped Trump’s approval rating, will this hurt or harm it? And why won’t Trump trumpet the bipartisan legislative successes of the past few weeks? Give a listen. Source

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0:00.0	Music
0:24.8	Welcome to the Commentary Magazine podcast.
0:27.2	Today is Thursday, May 24, 2018.
0:30.3	I'm John Bouthordz, the editor of Commentary, the 77-year-old monthly of intellectual
0:35.5	analysis, political, property, and cultural criticism from a conservative perspective.
0:40.2	We invite you to join us at CommentaryMagazine.com where we give you a few free reads and then ask
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0:51.5	including our beautiful monthly magazine in your mailbox 11 times a year.
0:56.7	With me as always, a Greenwald, our senior editor, Hy-Abe.
0:59.7	Hy-John, Noah Rothman, our associate editor, Hy-Noah.
1:02.4	Hy-John, and senior writer Sora, Mammari, Hy-Sora.
1:05.3	Hello, John.
1:06.3	So the big news is that Donald Trump has canceled, pulled out, ended the piece in our time North
1:13.0	Korea summit in Singapore scheduled for June 12th.
1:17.0	And in so doing, basically said, oh, we better, you better not try to test us because we got
1:23.1	a lot more nuclear weapons than you.
1:27.4	So this three month, two, three, four month, ittle, fantasy ittle that somehow Trump had broken
1:37.2	the secret of how to negotiate with foreign powers and was going to change the whole nature
1:45.1	of diplomacy in our time.
1:46.7	What are your plans to have founded on the shores of the rocky shores of reality?
1:54.1	Abe, what do you make of this?
1:57.4	Well, I mean, you know, part of, I mean, everyone really fell hard for the meeting that
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