Trump V Kim: Something dreadful could actually happen (a story including Dennis Rodman)

The stand off between an American President who shoots from the hip and a North Korean dictator who doesn’t care about the safety of his subjects is scary enough.
What makes this all worse, and the concluding act a nuclear war all the more likely, is events that have taken place already.
There’s already a theory that Donald Trump has tried a number of ways to make amicable contact with Kim Jong-Un.
Believe it or not the main theory on this front is that Dennis Rodman is a useful agent.
From the Washington Post recently:
Rodman’s trip has sparked speculation that he may be traveling to free American citizens being held by North Korea, perhaps as a first and important step toward lessening tensions between Washington and Pyongyang.
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Rodman’s latest visit coincides with a rapid succession of missile tests from North Korea and warnings that the state has the technology to strike the mainland United States.
When approached by CNN upon his arrival in Beijing, Rodman declined to comment on his trip but said, “See you Thursday.”
The fact that Rodman was going for such a short period of time raised expectations that he might be going to free imprisoned Americans.
To add to these rumours, we know that Rodman endorsed Trump in 2015 and publicly talked about their friendship on Twitter:
@realDonaldTrump has been a great friend for many years. We don’t need another politician, we need a businessman like Mr. Trump! Trump 2016
And despite the fact that Trump publicly turned down (in a very disparaging way) Rodman’s offer of a visit, Trump is on record as saying that he’d like to go to North Korea to meet its leader.
From Washington Post earlier this year:
If it would be appropriate for me to meet with him, I would absolutely, I would be honored to do it,” Trump told Bloomberg News in a Monday interview. “If it’s under the, again, under the right circumstances. But I would do that.
Another thing that’s made advocates of this theory very excited is that on Dennis Rodman’s last trip to Pyongyang he came bearing gifts: one of which was a copy of Donald Trump’s 1987 book The Art of the Deal.
I’m no fan of conspiracy theories. But let’s just say for sake of argument that Donald Trump has tried, and ultimately failed, to curry favour with North Korea, which has now resulted in his “fire and fury” warning. It’s very possible that Trump will act according to the shame and embarrassment he probably feels right now.
In fact there is an anecdote in his 1987 book that presents us with a possible scenario of how he might act if he feels his bluff is being called, as it possibly is at the moment.
Referring to a time in 1979 when a businessman rival, Billionaire casino magnate Steve Wynn (now finance chairman of the Republican National Committee), tried to take over Barron Hilton’s hotels, Trump imagines himself in that situation:
I’m not saying I would also have won, but if I went down, it would have been kicking and screaming. I would have closed the hotel and let it rot. That’s just my makeup. I fight when I feel I’m getting screwed, even if it’s costly and difficult and highly risky.
Now read that imagining this man is the President of the United States with access to the nuclear codes.
