"The worst thing that came out about Donald Trump in the Cohen testimony is that he associated with a guy like Michael Cohen!"

After a hilarious opening monolog about the Cohen testimony, Andrew reminds us that politics make you stupid. It forces you to make black and white choices in a grey world. If you get super passionate about those choices instead of realizing the grey, you become simplistic. You have to boil down complex situations to simplistic yes or no votes.

The Left is trying to eradicate the differences between men and women, which is perhaps the best thing about the human condition! They are even willing to let babies die!

The media narrative changes rapidly in order to keep putting President Trump in the worst light possible. Before the summit with Kim, they were fearful that he would give away too much. After he walked away they portrayed him as a failure.

The worst thing that came out about Donald Trump in the Cohen testimony is that he associated with a guy like Michael Cohen!

Andrew's guest was Obianuju Ekeocha. Andrew called her Uju. She has a documentary called Strings Attached. She has a sparkling personality. During the Obama years we US taxpayers funded a UK abortion agency to go into African countries and perform illegal abortions. On the first day of Trump's presidency that stopped.

"If a guy is threatening to cut your throat, don't buy him a knife!"

How to get Kim to give up his only ace in the hole

Bookworm's take on the Kim-Trump summit:

Kim tried to offer Trump this deal: North Korea promises to de-nuclearize in return for the U.S. actually getting money into the broken North Korean economy. This is, of course, the same deal every past president has made with North Korea, and the outcome has always been the same: North Korea broke its promises even as the Americans fulfilled theirs to enrich North Korea’s coffers. Incidentally, it is also the same deal that Obama made with Iran, with exactly the same result. It’s a fool’s deal, intended to keep the media happy. It’s also the classic definition of insanity: doing the same thing over and over, but expecting different results.

...Having laid the groundwork, Trump, the most experienced practical negotiator ever to sit in the Oval Office, is going to be patient and do it right: Kind words for his negotiating partner, strong positions on core issues with flexibility on ancillary issues and, always, the manifest willingness to walk away from a bad deal.

...I would not be at all surprised to learn that, just as Norman Vincent Peale’s The Power of Positive Thinking (the substance of which Trump heard every Sunday while sitting in the pews at Peale’s church) strongly influenced Trump’s thinking, so too did Dale Carnegie’s seminal book. You can use verbal abuse to try to force people to bend to your will but, if you want people voluntarily to give you something, you have to be nice. And that’s what Trump is doing with Kim — he’s being nice, not just to pander to Kim’s tyrannical ego, but to allow Kim to save face, and be the big man, even as he gives up his only ace in the hole.

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