TAKING ON JUSTY – AT 1:18 P.M. ET:  The president has arrived in Singapore.  He left the G7 early, and its participants are furious with him.  How dare he disagree with them, and try to protect American workers? 

The worst was Justin (my daddy was prime minster) Trudeau of Canada, who appears to have the intellectual maturity of a twelve-year-old.  Trudeau's father was the anti-American Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, so the apple is falling close to the tree.  The Trump administration has had its fill of Trudeau.  From Fox: 

There is a "special place in hell" for Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau because of his decision to slam the U.S. in a post-G7 press conference, White House Director of Trade Policy Peter Navarro said on "Fox News Sunday."

"There's a special place in hell for any foreign leader that engages in bad faith diplomacy with President Donald J. Trump and then tries to stab him in the back on the way out the door," Navarro said. "And that's what bad faith Justin Trudeau did with that stunt press conference. That's what weak, dishonest Justin Trudeau did. And that comes right from Air Force One."

Shortly after Trump left the G7 summit, where the world leaders had reached a tentative agreement on a joint statement, Trudeau held a press conference in which he said that Canada will not be "pushed around" by the U.S.

Navarro reiterated that his sentiment was shared onboard Air Force One after the summit, as it headed toward Singapore for the planned meeting between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

And I'll tell you this, to my friends in Canada, that was one of the worst political miscalculations of a Canadian leader in modern Canadian history," Navarro continued. "All Justin Trudeau had to do was take the win. President Trump did the courtesy to Justin Trudeau to travel up to Quebec for that summit. He had other things, bigger things on his plate in Singapore.

COMMENT:  Is the president picking an unnecessary fight with young Justy?  I don't think so.  I believe there's a method to Trump's apparent madness.  He is signalling to the North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un, whom he will meet on Tuesday, just how tough he is, how unyielding he is when dealing with America's national interest.

What a week this will be.  If Trump can pull off a serious agreement with North Korea, it will be one of the great diplomatic achievements of the age.  But it's a big "if."

June 10,  2018