The Upcoming Trump/Kim Jong Meeting.What Should We Call It?,The "Shitake Rice Summit?
No. The mushrooms don't deserve being exposed to risk of somehow being mistakenly associated with that event. Do Trumpkins even know there exists such a thing as a shiitake mushroom?
As goes the prospect of Trump and Kim meeting, I don't necessarily take issue with the act of their meeting. I'm aware of the pros and cons of their doing so, but, for now, I hold out hope that at the worst, "things won't get worse" between the two nations as a result of their speaking to one another.
I say "hope" with due purpose, for small degree of trepidation accrues in my mind over the notion of two small minded egomaniacs trying to find concord amongst themselves. Two nitwits talking often leads to all manners of unimaginable calamity. Truly, I hope that whomever Trump has a translator exercises enough discretion and good judgment to attenuate the tone of whatever "off color" and inane remarks Trump might make. I know translators aren't supposed to make inferences and do so, but I also think is so incoherent, brash and downright poor at expressing himself, that on the occasion of his speaking with Kim, an exception should be made.
Though we know what kind of silly sh*t has said and believed in the past, we also know that Kim is no stranger to absurd thoughts. Christ, the man thinks we want to invade and subsequently for South Korea subsume his country, when the fact is that however so the latter of that be, the former makes no shred of sense. If it did, we'd have done it ages ago, certainly before the DPRK acquired nuclear weapons.
Even as I'm disquietingly amenable to their meeting, I'm not at all fond of the way Trump undertook to share his willingness to do so. The tacit messages accompanying his announcement that he'd speak with Kim, are, in my mind all kinds of wrong. Quite simply, while Trump and Kim are, as heads of state, technically peers, in substance they are not.
It doesn't matter what one thinks of Trump, the fact remains that he is the head of the dominant and leading state on the planet and Kim not, nor even near it. He merely has nuclear weapons and unlike the other heads of state who control such things, he's "certifiable." Meeting with Kim is something a POTUS might, maybe even should, undertake only because doing so hasn't been tried before, not because Kim deserves such an honor. One might think of it as one's meeting with Kim as a "last ditch" effort to avoid having to instead pursue far more decisive means of abating the threat Kim poses.