So we’re finally here. The Tuesday (Singapore time) summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un was something the liberal media were doubtful would ever happen, but here we are.

When the two leaders were just a couple of hours from meeting each other, the liberal media were grasping at straws to find some way to attack and discredit the summit. On Monday’s (U.S. time) edition of CNN’s OutFront, host Erin Burnett was so desperate to find something to complain and fear monger about she actually suggested Trump was too jetlagged to be effective. It was something her panel pounced on to sew concern about the President’s ability to strike a deal.

When Burnett started her program, her greatest concern was that Trump and Kim would first meet one-on-one with no one else there but their translators. “And we do understand it will be one-on-one. Just the two men and their translators. Now, President Trump seems to have slept little if at all, that's the issue with Asian jet-lag,” she fretted as she noted he was up early tweeting criticism of his “hatters.”

It was a historic moment for the world where anything could happen (including the possibility of an outline for further peace talks), but Burnett huffed about how all she saw was two men running a “reality show”:

He's making it clear he believes this is all about him, his personal power and ability, mano-a-mano with Kim, and that's what it is about. Two larger than life showmen have turned a summit about life and death into a sort of reality show in Singapore. You know, listen to the cheers for Kim when he went out on the town in Singapore.

Seizing on his host’s doubts about Trump’s mental state ahead of the meeting, former CIA operative Robert Baer also harped on Trump being too tired and too dumb to know what’s going on. “That's a bad idea. You've already mentioned the jet-lag, the issues are too complicated for him. He's said in so many words he's not really up on the issues,” he chided.

“But at the end of the day, I don't see what you could get out of a one-on-one meeting like that and will he even remember what was said at that point? And will he cover the main points? I tell you, I couldn't,” he continued. So, Baer argued that Trump was too dumb to remember what happened in the meeting because he was too?

Sticking up for Obama’s decrepit legacy of nuclear agreements, Burnett declared that Trump had a major “problem” in that “the Iran deal is the standard” and suggested Trump couldn’t possibly get that much in an agreement. “He's gotta have more verification than was in there. He’s got to have -- and that's pretty hard to do,” she claimed.

“You're absolutely right. In a logical world, that's a problem. But not in this world,” opined a bitter Joel Wit, a Clinton-era official who negotiated with North Korea for that administration. “And so, I think what Trump will do is take ownership of this problem and he'll say, ‘this is enough.’ And then the Iran deal, well, he didn't make that deal. So it was a bad deal. He makes this deal, it's a good deal.”

Judging by this frantic attempt at trying to cast the summit in a negative light from every angle, it’s almost like they didn’t want the summit to be successful.

This is CNN.

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