While insults fly, Trump gets it done

NO wonder Trump doesn’t care about what foul-mouthed celebrities, or weak European leaders, think about him. He’s too busy trying to save the world, writes Miranda Devine.

YOU’D think Robert De Niro and the rest of his Trump-hating celebrity class must have a suicide wish.

They would prefer nuclear war with North Korea than admit for one second that Donald Trump might be doing a good job.

How else do you explain De Niro’s foul-mouthed abuse of the US President on Monday at the Tony Awards in New York?

“I’m going to say one thing, F**k Trump... It’s no longer down with Trump it’s F*k Trump”.

For this classy statement, De Niro received extended applause and a standing ovation from the crème de la crème of America’s theatrical class.

Meanwhile, the object of their derision was en route to Singapore where he reached a historic initial peace agreement with the Communist dictator of North Korea, Kim Jong-un.

In incredible scenes yesterday we saw the two leaders shake hands before sitting down to a private meeting for 45 minutes alone, apart from interpreters.

New BFFs Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un in Singapore on Tuesday. Trump knew exactly how to deal with the dictator. (Pic: Kevin Lim/The Strait Times)

The warmth and conviviality exuded by Trump immediately relaxed the man he once dubbed “Little Rocket Man” who responded with smiles and little squeezes of Trump’s elbow.

Just months earlier, our region had been on a hair trigger of nuclear war.

Everyone underestimates Trump but he’s done what no US president has been able to do in bringing North Korea to the table at least to begin the process of denuclearising the Korean peninsula.

He did it with a mixture of threats and insults straight out of his book, The Art of the Deal, using the wiles of the Queens property developer he is.

After Kim threatened to fire missiles at Guam and start a nuclear war, Trump said he would “destroy North Korea” and warned any more threats “will be met by fire and fury the world has never seen”. How horrified were the professional diplomats of Washington and Brussels

But look what happened yesterday. Trump does what he has to do to get the deal done, and acting like a fire breathing barbarian is what he judged would get results with a communist dictator.

The image of Trump surrounded by Angela Merkel and other G7 leaders swept social media. (Pic: Jesco Denzel)

Earlier at the G7, he used a different tactic, insolence. The Caraveggio-esque image of Trump surrounded by world leaders, with Germany’s Angela Merkel sternly standing over him, achieved instant iconic status. He is the focus of the room, dictating terms, although most eyes are on Merkel. She is glaring at him, like an exasperated school marm who doesn’t know what to do with her most recalcitrant pupil. He is sitting, while everyone else is standing, his arms are folded but he looks relaxed, and his face is utterly unperturbed.

Perhaps flittering through his mind is the thought that Merkel’s disapproving demeanour is a joke when she has done more to damage Europe than anyone in recent history with her open borders invitation to a horde of illegal migrants.

Similarly, when Trump saunters in late for a gender equity breakfast later at the G7, Merkel, the International Monetary Fund’s Christine Lagarde and other high powered women around the table look aghast, while France’s Emmanuel Macron almost allows himself to look amused by the chutzpah.

Trump just looks as if he couldn’t give a toss what any of them think of him, because, after all, who cares about politically correct mumbo jumbo when you have the world to save.

The globalist class represented at the G7 share the same fashionable views, and hold themselves superior to the plebs they govern. They laugh at Trump and find him uncivilised and unmanageable, but unlike them he actually gets things done.