08 June 2018

Hubris


President Trump thinks he can wing it.  Politico reports:
President Donald Trump on Thursday said he didn’t feel a need to prepare for his historic June 12 meeting with North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong Un, arguing that the high-stakes nuclear talks would be based more on “attitude” than advance legwork.
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“I think I’m very well prepared,” Trump said with Abe by his side. “I don’t think I have to prepare very much. It’s about attitude, it’s about willingness to get things done. So this isn’t a question of preparation, it’s a question of whether or not people want it to happen, and we’ll know that very quickly.”
Hubris is usually followed by nemesis ...

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