Trump agrees to meet with North Korea's Kim Jong Un, South Korea says

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(03-09-2018, 02:16 AM)BmorePat87 Wrote: Because so far he has been a pretty awful President and people are holding praise until something is actually done

How do you figure that he's been an awful President?

A few of his accomplishments:

At a recent White House press briefing, it took press secretary Sarah Sanders a full 2 1/2 minutes to list all of what Trump had overseen since his inauguration. Her list included:

• The unemployment rate is down to 4.1 percent.
• The stock market is at record highs.
• Congress "rolled back 22 regulations for every one new regulation."
• Trump pulled out of or started to renegotiate trade deals.
• He announced plans to withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord and broadly put a new emphasis on energy production over environmental protection.
• The administration approved the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines.
• The Trump administration amped up immigration enforcement, and the travel ban executive order is now at least partially in effect after months of legal challenges; prototype wall segments have been constructed along the U.S.-Mexico border.
• "ISIS has lost nearly all of its territory and its most important strongholds in Iraq and Syria."
• Through executive action, Trump has eroded pieces of Obamacare.
• "We've reshaped the American judiciary for generations. Justice Gorsuch was confirmed to the Supreme Court, and 22 judges have been confirmed, including a record-setting 12 circuit judges."
  

And here's 81 more.

(03-09-2018, 02:16 AM)BmorePat87 Wrote: he is and so was his father and his grandfather. The former both suggested they be open to these sort of things to ease sanctions and then went back on their words. This is something where the outcome needs to be observed before we begin cheering.

They're being ok with the US-South Korea military exercises and not conducting any further nuclear tests, which they have stopped (or said they'd stop) in the past, but now Trump is opening talks.  Between that and agreeing to meet, I'd say it's a pretty big victory.

No President has ever met with a North Korea leader, so that's a pretty big thing.

(03-09-2018, 02:16 AM)BmorePat87 Wrote: It would be pretty dumb to cut sanctions prior to him agreeing to anything beyond talks. I'm glad they haven't done that.

Which goes to show that Trump's about action and not just talk.

(03-09-2018, 02:16 AM)BmorePat87 Wrote: You're likely going to wait a while. No one is trashing him for being open to talks (not even somewhat on here)

People have changed the conversation into things unrelated to the thread topic in order to have things to bash him about, so, yes, it is happening.