A political hat trick in North Korea?

Come on. Does President Trump think he can pull the wool over “all” the eyes of the American people? He may be an economic master of sorts, but this narrative in North Korea proved him not to be, at least to some folk, a political public relations magician. You can’t pull North Korea out of a nuclear rabbit hat and expect everyone to go wow! And then say, “We now have a nuclear de-escalation agreement”. No political magician is that good. But the Trump administration seemed to think they could pull it off.

It was a good show. But not a convincing show. Certainly not to the more discerning Democrats. The Democrats didn’t believe in a nuclear hat trick agreement. However, the media narrative of what was happening in North Korea could have come from a script written by a Hollywood director. The stage was set. The actors were in place. The cultural artistic landscape of North Korea glittered in the background. The White House P.R. director said action: “Roll the cameras”. And that is just what the media did, roll the cameras. Fox, CNN, and other international media outlets were pushing each other out of the way to see who could get the best shot of this nuclear agreement political hat trick.

This so called Korean summit was played up as being greater than the signing of the Declaration of Independence (at least a modern day re-edited version). I’m no genius or ever applied for a White House public relations job or a press secretary position (didn’t have the grades or Harvard and Yale connections), but it appeared that this Korean summit, and so-called American history in the making, was a White House public relations engineering trick to create a false sense of security for the American public. Unfortunately, I believe it accomplished its goal. Why? We want to believe we can live forever in our two-family garages, middle class suburban homes, good jobs and retirement packages, and have eternal conversations in our Facebook social media world. So we drink the political energy drinks.

Because of our endless seeking of comfort and material values, uncovering truth or seeking truth is not a priority. This half-blinded and non-seeking-truth perspective makes us vulnerable to modern-day political false prophets and Korean summit nuclear agreement hat tricks. As long as we can pay our bills, take a vacation two times a year, and give our kids a good education (by the way, where is that happening?), who really cares about the integrity of our nation and political smoke screens and deflection narratives to protect the guilty?

Well, get ready. There should be another political hat trick coming to town shortly. Stay tuned.