Fool's Bet

  How confident do you feel that Donald Trump, of all people, can lead the country through this crisis? If you're like me, you have absolutely no confidence that he can do it, and it's much worse in fact. He will make the situation worse because a mentally unstable person is not capable of making such important decisions. Trump is not capable of making long range decisions involving American policy and foreign relations.

NY Times: Trump Bet He Could Isolate Iran and Charm North Korea. It’s Not That Easy. The president assumed economic levers would guide the countries’ national interests. Now, he confronts twin challenges in an election year. By David E. Sanger

In North Korea, Kim Jong-un’s declaration on Wednesday that the world would “witness a new strategic weapon” seemed to be the end of an 18-month experiment in which Mr. Trump believed his force of personality — and vague promises of economic development — would wipe away a problem that plagued the last 12 of his predecessors