Donald Trump’s Fox and Friends interview this morning was a total bust

| 6:48 am EDT May 24, 2018
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Last night, even as his latest obstruction of justice scheme was rapidly falling apart at the hands of the bipartisan Gang of Eight, Donald Trump tweeted that he would be appearing this morning on the Fox News morning show Fox & Friends. Last time Trump was on the show, he was so derangedly incoherent that the hosts – who are his allies – politely kicked him off the air in an effort at protecting him. This time around, let’s just say that it was a different kind of bust.

Trump didn’t actually appear on Fox & Friends this morning, or even call in. Instead the show merely aired footage of a few staged questions it had asked him earlier at the White House. There was so little footage of Trump to work with, the hosts had to try to drag it by giving long monologues in between each of Trump’s answers. Even though the whole thing was a total bust overall, Trump did manage to give away that he’s on the verge of another humiliating failure.

Last week North Korea canceled its scheduled talks with South Korea, and then threatened to cancel its scheduled meeting with Donald Trump as well. Why? Because Kim Jong Un is as demented as Trump is, and he likes to play games, and he understands that the nearly-ousted Trump needs this meeting a whole lot more than he does.

Donald Trump seems to have figured out that the whole thing with North Korea isn’t happening, because when he was asked about it by the Fox host, instead of projecting his usual con-man confidence, he began tamping down expectations. Trump merely said that it’ll be nice “if” the meeting with Kim Jong Un happens. In other words, Trump was desperate enough for a win that he climbed into bed with a two-bit dictator, and now he realizes that he’s been played. Update: Trump now says the meeting with Kim is canceled.