Trump’s chance for a sensational legacy

It has been many things, but surely few people would describe Donald Trump’s presidency as predictable. Sweeping to power on a rising tide of bombastic rhetoric, railing against anybody and everybody there seemed little indication he would be the man behind potentially groundbreaking global peace talks.

And yet this week the US president will sit down with Kim Jong Un for unprecedented talks (though admittedly it hasn’t actually happened yet and when it comes to Trump’s politics, a week is more like an eternity than a mere long time). Asked what he hoped to achieve, Trump was typically bullish, suggesting he was confident things would “work out very nicely”.

Certainly, it is the first summit of its kind between a leader of North Korea and a sitting US president.

If Pyongyang does ultimately agree to deal away its entire nuclear arsenal – something some observers believe is a genuine possibility – it would be a truly remarkable development.

There have been some extraordinary twists and turns in this most unorthodox of presidencies, but as yet no clear legacy.

Could it really be that Trump ultimately goes down in history not as the strangely-coiffeured businessman who upset the odds to briefly lead the free world, but as the man who brought peace to one of the world’s most troubled regions?