Summit to think about

After a lengthy period where it was more off-and-on than Rachel and Ross’ relationship in Friends, hell finally froze over when Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un held their face-to-face summit.

Despite the promise of more fireworks than a Fourth of July parade, the meeting of the world’s most colourful figureheads ended up being much ado about nothing.

Kim commented on his meeting with the Donald being like a“scene from a science fiction movie”; it may have involved two men with minds belonging in a galaxy far, far away but this was one close encounter missing Spielberg-esque magic.

Trump’s negotiating tactics are unorthodox to say the least, but they do appear to have somehow got Kim to the negotiating table – literally.

Maybe he gave Kim one of his ties to sell; after all, they fetch a pretty penny with one going for more than £6000 at a charity event in my home village of Chapelhall last year.

Everyone heard Trump’s speech where he was praising Kim but, in my opinion, this was less genuine than proclamations of ever-lasting devotion on TV’s Love Island.

However, hearing good things being said about him will hopefully see Kim end the nuclear warhead testing and, as a result, have his Rocketman moniker dropped so I can finally enjoy that Elton John song again without thinking about him!

Trump also made good points, like the idea that North Korea could be having condos on their beaches instead of rocket testing but, as always, angered plenty of people – myself included – when he launched tariffs on other countries.

The Trump-Kim summit wasn’t quite the blockbuster showdown many expected, then, but if it helps bring us one step closer to world peace then it may just make the Donald’s presidency worth all the Twitter tantrums, grammar gaffes and horrendous hairstyles.