Tom Toles for February 18, 2019

Last time around, Trump didn’t fare so well

Kim Jong Un is 36. Trump is 72. Trump literally got played by a brutal dictator half his age and twice as smart (though, in fairness, being twice as smart as Donald Trump is a pretty low bar).

Trump gave Kim Jong Un everything — his long-desired photo op, legitimacy, praise from the U.S. president for his “talent,” good personality and how much he “loves his people” (who he brutally enslaves and murders) and even extras he had not planned on, such as a pledge for the United States to stab long-time allies Japan and South Korea in the back with his pledge to scale back U.S. joint military exercises (after a phone call with Vladimir Putin, but without consulting Japan, South Korea or even his military advisors) and Trump saying he “fell in love” with, and all Trump got were vague, undefined, non-specific, non-verifiable generalities and some symbolic gestures such as returning remains that have deep personal significance to affected families but are not strategically or militarily critical.

Oh yeah, and don’t forget the TRUMP SALUTED A NORTH KOREAN GENERAL — a general of the army that killed thousands of U.S. soldiers, has brutalized and impoverished its people, and has been what even Dubya Bush called part of the “axis of evil” — one of the worst enemies of the United States.

What is it with Trump SURRENDERING to our fiercest enemies (Kim Jong Un, puppetmaster Vladimir Putin and brutal murderer Mohammed bin Salman)?

If Trump could have gotten a deal with North Korea that was anywhere near half as good as what Obama got with Iran (along with England, Germany, France, China and Russia — a broad seven-nation international coalition) we would never hear the end of his bragging.

As it is, Trump failed miserably at the “Art of the Deal” and we still have to endure his bragging.

And now he’s going to do the same thing again?

Kim Jong Un feels like Christmas is coming early this year!

Kim and Bonespurs are both inheritors, but Kim got some brains.

Love Kim’s mushroom cloud hairdo.

Trump is probably very happy for the “conference” to be in Hanoi, so he can claim that he “fought in Vietnam”. He’ll just roll over and play dead, again.

A man who believes Putin about NK rockets and not his own Intelligence assets. is about as pee-poor a president as you could imagine.On second thought (forehead slap), that’s what he’s good for: being peed on!

Can’t believe, okay I guess I can, that Japanese PM Shinzo Abe nominated Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize, though when questioned in the Diet he would neither confirm nor deny. Or is Trump lying that he did, and that he presented him with a copy of the document for the Nobel committee?

in Trump’s list of handy dandy distractions when things get hot at home.

Trump doesn’t realize that the next to last summit will be the last because, by then, Kim will have about 100 intercontinental missiles and will wipe out the U.S. in one go.

And here we see the living definition of insanity.

Orange make up wearing Trump is obviously mentally ill.

What’s REALLY scary is that this is NOT an exaggeration in ANY way, shape, or form! Comrade-cadet Bonespurs-trumpski really IS this MIND-BOGGLINGLY STUPID!!!!

But Un says so many nice things about our president. . . . (/s)

What is the Korean translation of “ha-ha!”?

(BTW, Kim doesn’t need to shoot off any more ballistic missiles for the same reason we don’t; he already has the data to make them work.)

Pretty sure the translation got mixed up.. Kim said he would get rid of his nukes as soon as trump got rid of his.

Kim should get Glorious Leader to North K, give him the military parade he has been denied in the USA, tell him this is kind of parade a Glorious Leader like he deserves, and see if GL’s heart can be won away from Mr. Vlad. Steal Putin’s B? I don’t think so. Stay tuned to the strange turn modern times have taken. Is this the rise of the dictators or the reassertion of democracy? Only you and I can say.

Crooked liar Trump is just doing what Putin told him to do.

Umm…already tired

what is wrong with Trump’s base??? Treason By Any Other Name Is Still treason!!! Any American who deserves or considers being called an American knows that America does not align with dictators… Dems in the house are preparing to find out just how far down the road of treason Trump has gone in his Secret negotiations and talks with Putin. Couldn’t have been any sooner … should have been done sooner.

Considering the negotiating skills Trump has shown since taking office, it’s easy to see how he managed to inherit a fortune and still have gone bankrupt several times.

The Orange Human Abomination has his world and we are forced to be in it! President Evil we have…

If once is good, more times is better.

No one can accomplish nothing and declare “victory” quite like our boy Donny.