PIERS MORGAN: It made me puke to hear Trump call mass-killer Kim a very talented person at this astounding summit - but if that’s what it takes to help make North Korea give up its nukes, I’m all in
What a disaster!
It achieved nothing!
Waste of time!
Such a sell-out!
Trump’s a LOSER!
The verdicts on President Trump’s unprecedented Singapore summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un surged in fast and furious – many of them openly scornful and hostile.
Of course, the same people spewing such instantly negative, cynical bile would have been saying the complete opposite if the summit had been driven by former President Barack Obam
We know this because we saw, heard and read them saying it when Obama negotiated a similar peace deal with America’s other most hated enemy, Iran – and earned himself a Nobel Peace Prize.
However, it’s also true to say that the people immediately lauding Trump’s summit as a spectacular, unqualified success were the same ones screaming blue murder at Obama for what he did with Iran.
Such is the absurd hypocrisy on all sides in current US political discourse.
For those not engaged in perpetual petty partisan point-scoring, the reality of what happened in Singapore last night is that it was neither an abject failure nor an unqualified success.
It could be the start of something that ends up as a truly historic peace settlement in the most dangerous part of the world.
Or it could simply fizzle away into a pointless nothing-burger as both sides return to the decades-long cold war that has simmered with bitter tension along the North Korean Peninsular.
Time, and, I suspect, a lot of patience, will tell.
But watching the extraordinary scenes as they unfurled live on TV, I chose to suspend my own disbelief and natural journalistic scepticism, and see the bigger picture.
This, by any yardstick, was an astounding summit.
The President of the United States flew half way across the world to sit down with one of the world’s most ruthless dictators.
They shook hands, they had a private meeting, they lunched, they strolled through a garden, they laughed and joked, and they spoke to the media in an effusive manner about each other
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