President Trump’s critics are carping that his top-down negotiating model undermined his nuclear summit with Kim Jong Un because the details hadn’t been settled on at lower levels of diplomacy. We give Mr. Trump more credit for walking away from a deal that would not have required North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons.
Despite the long history of the North’s military threats, only recently has it developed and tested both nuclear bombs and the missiles to deliver them across the Pacific. The Hwasong-15 missile, successfully...Michael Cohen’s testimony proved again that Mr. Trump has associated with some dreadful characters—and has no great character himself—but Democrats will need more credible witnesses to impeach the President.
He got played by the Koreans!
The left doesn’t know how to do this.
And kim's truthful words!
The opinion section part if this paper is garbage.
What happened to 'The Master Deal Maker'
Really?
Just stop.
WSJ/FOX 'Noise'!!! OPINION: WHAT A LOAD OF CRAP!!! THE ONLY THING I see coming out of these 'SO Called SUMMITS' IS THAT 'tRUMP' agreed to STOP ALL JOINT MILITARY excersizes with the South---Something Putin has wanted for years!!!!SOOOOO STOP LYING TO US!!!
Opinion: artdecider art of the deal?
Get with the program NK WILL GET UP NUKES!!!
You are rose coloring the situation. Trump was so naive to believe he could move the needle on North Korea without any groundwork being done. Kim walked on him. So big words from a big egomaniac, but NOTHING accomplished.
So basically, brownie points for not caving and going back on his word? My, you guys at the WSJ sure set a very high bar.
Give trump credit for not shitting on the carpet
Ha ha ha!
If by “credit” you mean outmaneuvered...
Only the WSJ would give imbecile traitor “credit” for being utterly clueless and unprepared for what everyone else knew Un would and would not do. The WSJ: helping undermine US democratic institutions since 2017.
I’d rather get shot in the face.
Yes.
In other news... Hell freezes over.
The Lord bless America and our President and Vice President
Why give credit for stopping an activity that shouldn't have happened in the first place? But how appropriate that the last time the US left Vietnam was when it lost the war - only to leave again after losing the negotiation - an irony not lost on any Asian nations involved
Nah. He was smart enough to know he’s in so much trouble that coming home with something half assed he would normally claim as a victory wasn’t going cut it.
All lines of credit have been exhausted.
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He specifically did not do that, by all trustworthy reports of what actually happened.
okay, I will, if you give him credit for taking Un's word about murdering an American Citizen at face value too.
I would do the same if I was him.
Just wanted to be out of the country during Cohen. Dont make it more than it was.....
Um, right. No way was realDonaldTrump preoccupied by the Cohen hearing.
But he blew it by legitimizing the rogue leader and nation, period. It also diminished the office of president. (More winning from private bone spurs.)
All he Could do. The penny dropped he’d been Played by “Little R Man”. Tried his usual Bullshit and it Completely Flopped!
Walking is part of negotiation. He could have give them 1.8 Billion cash left on the tarmac ....... then the dem o rats would be happy... Obumer did and it seemed ok to them.
Spin it all you like. It was a FAIL.
I thought Trumpster was the bigly bestest negotiator ever. Sounds like he’s just a fraud and conman. Too many hamberders.
What really happened : Kim told Trump no hotel.
Not certain a “deal” is possible without mutual trust an a “win-win” approach. Can we get there with the players involved.
He's definitely credit worthy......
Nice reach around WSJ.
Thank God he was smarter than the people that worked out the Iran deal
The only reason I would do that is if I expected less of him...so I guess he gets the credit
Really? He walked cause he didn’t know what else to do - no credit for coming unprepared 🤨
Trump is actually doing a good job dealing with Kimmy. I think that Trump is influencing Kimmy, which is important. Trump is an in-your-face kind of guy.
Give him credit for a lot more than that.
Sorry no credit. trump knew NK expectations from beginning. Why go to summit knowing there is no deal?
There is no reason to assume that this is what Trump did. More likely Kim refused to give anything more than a promise to denuclearize someday in exchange for total US withdrawal from South Korea. It worked last time: no more war games.
Will accept dying college students at the hands of his international colleagues as an administration victory.
I wish the Democrats would steal his foreign policy.
So that's the bs spin you put on a meeting that should never have happened, and one in which a North Korean dictator humiliated the US? Have you no shame?
You guys are kidding right?
Who are you, what did you do with wsj?
No, if him and his stupid team knew better, realDonaldTrump POTUS should’ve NEVER gone to Vietnam to play right into Kim’s PR show. He was played and had to pack up and leave empty handed. You don’t give him credit for offering a global platform to NK. It was a fail SecPompeo
You don’t give someone credit for doing what they’re supposed to do,credit is due when you go above and beyond the call of duty, he wasn’t supposed to be there unless there was a deal.
I absolutely give him credit for doing the right thing!
WSJ Jonathan Cheng July 30, 2018 SEOUL—North Korea has constructed two new buildings at a missile facility in the northern suburbs of Pyongyang and appears to be actively continuing production there, according to an analysis of newly available commercial satellite imagery...?
No. Not ever.
Trump doesn't deserve Credit. He chose to talk to Kim Jon Un, because it gave him limelight.
Give him credit for engaging a psychopath, when we ALL knew this would be the outcome? You’re serious?
I have trust in Trump all else is questionable
Credit (1).
WTF are you are you enamored with lyingTrump that you look for ways to make him good but we all know that the event that took place this week was just for photo op WSJfail
He came out of summit 1, cheesy commemorative coins & all, WITHOUT a shared definition of denuclearization. That should've halted the process. But, no, he went back for 2. Where, sadly, he praised Kim & exonerated him of Warmbier's death! And you're talking credit ... get real!
Seems to be some disputed information coming out of both camps....shocked😱
Yes. They were a danger before he came into office and now they're not. Seems like hes doin his job. Thank you President Trump.
I trained my dog to do that. I'm not going to praise this shut head on foreign policy while he's shitting in my backyard.
He's a great diplomat.
Trump cancelled the 'War Games' with So. Korea and our other Asian allies, Fell In Love with NK dictator in public. Grovelled, Flirted, Pandered, Flattered the man who sent an American student home broken, dying. WSJ wants Donald to get credit for What? NK gave up zero.
He should have never went there, dumbass!! Did you give credit to Obama who did not even set foot in Iran and got a denuclearization deal?!! That other countries are still a part of Stop being stupid.
I don't give realDonaldTrump credit for bupkis. He's doesn't bother reading anything prepared for him, trusts only himself (because he thinks he's a stable genius), and so it thoroughly unprepared for any real discussion. Of course, Putin and Kim are well aware of his idiocy!
That is the only applicable word he knows so - NO, I won’t give him credit for repeating it over and over again! Sheesh!
Trump has them stopping their testing and got Kim to the table twice. That’s more than the last three presidents combined.
WJS standard for Trump 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
More like... DT, For $50B I'll take off sanctions. Kim, Take a walk.
Part of the Deal
give him credit for that? had he accepted kim's proposal, he would have been ousted, on the spot
Do we also give him credit for no prepping for this summit?
No worries, realDonaldTrump always gives himself plenty of credit NobelDemise
Huh? Fake News
UN G20 RoyalFamily NarendraModi KingSalman Khamenei_IR KremlinRussia_E AbeShinzo XHNews SecPompeo Within a fortnight, demonstrate an incremental gesture of goodwill with an adversary; with one tweet or action. ImranKhanPTI granted safe passage home for the pilot.
No. You don’t get credit for achieving a result that would be the same if you had done literally nothing. He’s an adult, not a toddler.
You guys never cease to amaze me
He was an entrepreneur. He analyses the world according to the vision of a business leader.
OK Credit, he Finally walked away from a Bad Deal. Kudos to the TV Host n Art of Deal guy. Now -
he did nothing.
Why? He went in ill-prepared and had no business kowtowing to that monster in the first place. There’s a reason we don’t want our President chummy with dictators. This was nothing but an expensive and embarrassing photo op.
Extraordinary loweribg if the bar... He goes out of his way to praise and give great exposure to a brutal communist dictator, drops all leverage by showing his willingness to deal at all costs, then realizes he is going too far and is being played for the fool he is..
Trump wanted to get everything he wanted, for giving nothing in return. That was poor base for negotiations. Why credit?
Give him credit for doing nothing but further legitimizing a dictatorship and their hostile behavior.
l.o.l.
Hold it right there The Wall Street Journal, give Sec. Mike Pompeo credit for getting that idiot Trump to see the light of day on that vital issue for the safety and security of this Nation and its Allies.
If you were this guy’s lawyer would you ever let them take questions under oath?
Smart man
He didn't shit in his diaper either, but he shouldn't have been there in the first place!
'... but also criticize him for participating in such an ill-conceived and poorly planned summit in the first place.'
Like when you thank a guy who just stabbed you in the back for not shooting you in head?
Wow...the WSJ! The new champion of 'Snowflake' politics. realDonaldTrump fails, miserably, zero points for results but now the WSJ wants to award 'snowflake' points for effort. Buy DiaperDon a new set of Depends, pat him on the head, and tell him he's still a good boy. Lol
Obviously does not comprehend crime and criminals.. Which is big part of the problem.. Great to see real sane people respond in thread... Get with the program crime does not pay and criminals never ever are good guys... Clean up your $$$ World... We have had it
He didn’t walk because of that he walked because he was in MELTDOWN MODEZ and they used this as an excuse
Give him Credit? The UnqualifiedAsshole should have known that before traveling to Vietnam. TrumpKimSummit TrumpFail
Give us credit for recognizing this was further evidence of Trump’s hubris and complete disassociation with reality.🙄 Democrats2020💙🇺🇸
I would like to, but I don't believe Trump can tell the truth. Maybe, like Russia, Kim couldn't deliver a title to the land Trump wants to build on, and so Trump went home. Just saying....
Nobel Peace Prize? I thought he already had it in the bag. If his foolish gullible base wasn't nominating him, we wouldn't be gloating when the 'master' negotiator doesn't deliver.
Right, great job taking an approach that yields no results.
Why? Why does anyone in that admin get credit for not taking the deal which is the same deal that KJU already said he would make?
Because everyone appreciates that 'no progress' is so much better than 'some progress'. When did walking away become an acceptable way to end months of supposed preparation? TrumpFail
WHO says that he didn’t accept less than desired Who says HE walked out and not KJU Who says the MoronInChief even knew what they were talking abt NOTHING this admin says is true esp DJT. This was a distraction trip that didn’t work. He’s a failure even on fake trips.
Nah.
Give him credit for falling Nice try WSJ.
The bar for 45 is so low RKelly can walk over it
Bar...so...low...
If this was 1938, your headline would read GIVE CHAMBERLAIN CREDIT FOR NOT GIVING HITLER A MAP OF ENGLISH RADAR LOCATIONS. God, you've become SUCH A PATHETIC TRUMP TOOL....
트통 멋져부려 👍👍👍👍👍
Give credit to Trump if you're Deutsche Bank. Everyone else be aware that this guy has gone bankrupt several times, so you don't want to give him credit with any of our money because he'll just blow it on gaudy gold-plated crap.
You miss the point. By entering the process with no strategy and executing his tactics so ineptly, we have arrived at a place with no good options and all our goodwill expended. It’s hardly something to give Trump consolation points for.
The denuclearization he said was complete after the last meeting? Give him credit, lol.
Now you get it.
The only thing I will give Trump credit for would be a resignation. And I will still rub that shit in as deep as I can.
Let’s give broken clocks credit for telling the correct time twice a day.
Give Donald a Nobel Meh Prize
☆☆☆ In Hanoi, Trump was perfect America, Great Again ! ☆☆☆
Yes let’s give him credit for doing nothing because honestly, that’s all he’s ever doing. Unless you’re counting caging children, giving billions to the rich and destroying our environment.
Give Trump credit for a poorly arranged TrumpKimSummit doom from start and not doing something even more stupid? How low has WSJ Editorial Board set the bar for realDonaldTrump? And no mention of Trump defending Kim on OttoWarmbier death. FBR Resistance Khashoggi PRU
Didn’t he announced that NK was nuke free at Summit 1?
POTUS should have found a way to walk away with the USSPueblo...
Credit for what? For believing that he can charm blood out of the stone?
We are right where we started from sir.
Only problem is that it infuriates other countries to be possibly bullied, so they don't like the idea of another country telling them what to do. So they go other routes, is that good or bad? What are the interests at play?
Also, he didn’t accept less than the full prepayment by Mexico for the wall. The guy is a genius.
Good thing the Cohen hearings by Dems panicked Trump enough that he had a nervous breakdown in Hanoi.
He could have stayed in the USA and got the same result
He went 10,000 miles and gave Kim a world stage to figure that out? The master negotiator strikes again!
Or did HE? Perhaps he was told he would be completely decimated by his own party if he played ball.
Let’s wait until we see if the exercises are pulled before we give him credit
Mostly, I give credit to Mike Pompeo. Reluctantly...
*Give Trump credit for totally failing to achieve his objectives.
'Give Godzilla credit for at least not stepping on all the buildings'
Early departure from Hanoi: Was Trump more worried over Kim or Cohen?
Credit!!!really POTUS should have his tongue cut off for the amount of times he lied 🤥 to Americans. The one that believe his lies should have their ears 👂 removed!..... drop the 🎤
He should not have been there !
Mission accomplished.
Please. You don’t go to a summit and plan to wing it for some major last minute negotiations unless you’re a total idiot, which Trump is.
Nope
No, he does not deserve credit. It was a staged non event so he could be out of the country. It was the only way his moronic staff could keep his fat fingers and big lying mouth off of twitter he is a
Ok, thank you Murdoch for that opinion piece.
A medal for not getting fleeced. What have we come to ?
No.
No. Today he is already saying he wants to cancel or reduce the peninsula military exercises again. Kim Jong-un murders his people. He deserves nothing and neither does trump🙄 And neither do you, cowardly authors who will not be named.
North Korea managed to hose a few former presidents as we may recall. This was the right thing to do. You know the saying about F me once.
realDonaldTrump deserves 0, Zero, nada credit for his Hail Mary Hanoi Summit meant to distract and obstruct that cost American taxpayers millions as did his fake government shutdown! Instead give trump what he truly deserves, life in prison!
Nope.
No. He canceled early because Cohen's testimony was over and potus no longer needed a distraction.
idk. I'm highly suspect that he left the table because of that. Just feels like we're not getting the full accounting of how that went.
The soft bigotry of low expectations
Give him credit for realizing what everyone already knew?
NO
What a low bar you set for him
No.
This isn’t the Onion.