* Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un couldn’t be more different, with one exception–the impulsive one that worries the world.
* Apparently Vice President Mike Pence and his Libya reference played a major role in souring summit relations with North Korea. The “Libya model” doesn’t play well in Pyongyang; something about regime change and the bullet-riddled corpse of Muammar Gaddafi is off-putting to Kim Jong-un. We get that.
What we don’t get is Pence weighing in on a critical foreign policy decision. It’s well beyond his pay grade even in the chaotic Trump Administration. Pence needs to remember why he was put on the ticket in the first place: Because he looked–and acted–normal and played well in hypocritical evangelical circles. That’s it.
* Trump, as only he can, has stressed that he wants “transparency” on the Russian “witch-hunt” probe. But transparency, we have been reminded, isn’t remotely applicable when it comes to tax returns and this president’s potential conflict-of- interest scenarios.