Wondering on Wednesday (v136)

Well, well, well, another Wednesday has appeared as if by magic on the calendar. 

What do we have to think about tonight? We've got your DoTruKiJoNoKo summit,which surely dropped a whole lot of wondering in my lap, I have to say.

There was the "Baby, you can spy my car" part, where Trump and Kim wandered out to take a look at Trump's limousine, then turned around and wandered back inside. My first thought was that Trump wanted to prove his 'car' was bigger than Kim's, but then I started wondering how long it would take for Trump to start having the Secret Service run alongside Cadillac One the way Kim's security folks trot alongside his car. I mean, after all, we might be getting a $30M parade just because Trump was in France on Bastille Day...

And of course that was the somewhat weird comment about how fast Kim would start de-nuking.  Here's what Trump told Sean Hannity, his personal talking head:

I just think that we are now going to start the process of denuclearization of North Korea. I believe that he's going back and will start it virtually immediately. And he's already indicated that.

So -- I wonder, are we only going to get 'virtual' denuclearization, or will we get the real thing?

And if  denuclearization is going to happen, and once they get a little bit into the process, they won't be able to stop, and we're going to have lots of people around to verify that it's really happening, I wonder (again) why Trump just had us walk away from the Iran deal, which we had been verifying all along?

And what about that whole 'war games' thing? Stopping our joint training exercises with South Korea because they're provocative - and even worse, they're EXPENSIVE! We can save A LOT OF MONEY if we stop training our military, for sure we can. Just ask the Navy, who lost 17 sailors in preventable ship accidents in 2017 alone.

The crew was unprepared for the situation in which they found themselves through a lack of preparation, ineffective command and control, and deficiencies in training and preparations for navigation.

And, I have to wonder, how much could we cut out of the hundreds of billions in additional military spending Trump got in his budget, if we just stopped our war games and practicing and other not fighting all over the world? It's got to be tens of billions of dollars, right?  And we could devote that money to the Wall that Mexico's building for us, right? It's a #winning-#winning situation right there!

And finally, there was The Movie.

Destiny Pictures presents a story of opportunity...  A new story. A new beginning. One of peace. Two men, two leaders, one destiny.

It's got all the kitsch, all the imagery, all the shots of Ego 1 and Ego 2, giant flags and giant pyramids... I mean, the anti-fake news administration pulled out all the stops for their fake movie trailer. No irony there, right?

In the end, could this summit have been anything other than an episode of the Celebrity Apprentice, I wonder?  Dennis Rodman crying in an interview; Trump showing off the toys, all kinds of over the top 'deals' and 'feels' and 'touches' and surprises... the only thing missing was Omarosa. 

Oh darn, she's already been fired.