Outside the Beltway

The second summit between President Trump and Kim Jong Un ended early without any kind of agreement, signalling that no real progress has been made in talks between the two countries.

While the rest of the world looks at other events, tensions are flaring in a long-standing global hot spot.

President Trump and Kim Jong Un hold their second summit in Hanoi later this week, but it’s unlikely anything significant will happen.

Thanks mostly to it’s complete and enthusiastic embrace of Donald Trump , the Republican Party faces a bleak demographic future.

And a reminder about how little the current POTUS understands.

In his business career Donald Trump relied largely on fear and intimidation to get his way on business deals. As President, he’s finding that nobody is afraid of him.

The date and location of the next summit between President Trump and Kim Jong Un have been set, but it’s hard to see what can really be accomplished.

The President’s second State of the Union began and ended with calls for unity. In between, it was filled with the divisive partisanship that has marked his Presidency.

More than any recent President, Donald Trump displays a tremendous amount ignorance about the world. Even worse is the fact that he seems proud of it.

President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will meet again in February, but it’s hard to see why.

In his annual message, Kim Jong Un sent a message to President Trump on denuclearization and the future of the Korean Peninsula.

In what clearly appears to be a rebuke of the President, Defense Secretary James Mattis is retiring as Secretary of Defense.

The North Korean government is making clear what it means when it speaks of denuclearization, and its far different from what the United States means.

In a small, but meaningful, step, the Senate has rebuked the Administration’s policies toward the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Honoring the 41st President cast a poor light on the 45th.

It isn’t about foreign policy, it is about self-serving manipulation of the public.

Not one war, but five.

As expected, the North’s nuclear development continues.

President Trump is serving as a knowing apologist for a despotic regime.

Donald Trump is a coward and an apologist for evil around the world.

President Trump’s second speech to the General Assembly of the United Nations wasn’t much better than the first, but it it did get the world laughing at us.

A quick hit and run post to provide a proper definition.

Reports about tension between Defense Secretary James Mattis and President Trump are becoming louder, and it’s being suggested that Mattis could be out of office after the midterms.

As part of her position as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley has use of a rather lavish private residence. This is not a real controversy.

Three months after the Singapore summit, evidence grows that North Korea is still making nuclear weapons.

President Trump wants Jeff Sessions and the Justice Department to investigate the anonymous Op-Ed published earlier this week even though there doesn’t appear to have been a crime committed.

A new book by legendary Washington reporter Bob Woodward appears to contain explosive revelations about the President and the operation of the White House.

Who could have seen this coming?

Two months after the Singapore Summit, there’s no sign that anything substantive has been accomplished on the Korean Peninsula.

The Trump Administration continues to insist that North Korea is violating promises that it clearly never made.

The Trump Administration is falsely claiming that the North Koreans made commitments at the Singapore Summit that they clearly didn’t agree to.

Yet another sign that the Singapore Summit didn’t really accomplish much of anything.

A powerful political network is distancing itself from the Trump-dominated Republican Party.

Trade deals take more than an afternoon chat.

The Trump’s Administration’s rhetoric and actions have given the Iranians no reason to trust the United States going forward.

To the surprise of nobody other than, apparently, the President of the United States, the North Koreans are dragging their feet after getting what they wanted out of the Photo Op Summit in Singapore.

The President was up late last night sending an incredibly over-the-top tweet directed at Iran.

At a minimum, Trump is betraying his oath of office. That is one hell of a minimum.

Donald Trump’s military parade will cost roughly the same as military exercises in South Korea he has previously called “tremendously expensive.”

The Trump Administration is inviting Vladimir Putin to Washington, D.C. for a second summit in the fall. What could possibly go wrong?

Three new polls show that Republicans basically agree with the leader of their party when it comes to the issue of Russian interference in American elections.

Some Democrats want to compel President Trump’s translator to testify about his private meeting with Vladimir Putin. That’s a bad idea.

Even if all he gets out of the Helsinki Summit is a handshake and a photograph, Vladimir Putin has already won.

The NATO Summit is going about as well as can be expected.

More evidence that North Korea isn’t living up to the promises it made in Singapore.

Trump’s deal-making prowess in NK and Iran isn’t too impressive.

The supposed promises made at the Singapore Summit don’t appear to be working out in the real world.

The Presidents of the United States and Russia will meet next month and there’s reason to worry about what Trump might give away.

In a ruling that largely relies on the authority granted by Congress to the President to regulate immigration on national security grounds, the Supreme Court has upheld the final version of the Administration’s travel ban.

Another unilateral withdrawal from an international institution.