A few months ago, though really I think it has been a matter of weeks, things looked strangely good for Trump as a diplomat. He brought the North Koreans to the table apparently willing to talk about giving up their nuclear weapons and his followers chanted ‘Nobel’ like it was a sports championship.

But now it seems that thing are falling apart and it seems the North Koreans are unwilling to surrender their prized and expensive nuclear weapons.

Some have blamed this on Bolton, Trump’s senior National Security Adviser and a man who still thinks that the 2003 invasion of Iraq was a good idea. Bolton has compared the North Korean talk tot he deal made with Libya, you know that place where the citizens revolted, overthrew their dictator, and killed in cowering in the street, Granted that image I am certain does not prompt good feelings and pleasant dreams in the mind of Kim Jong-um, a man, despite his resemblance to the Pillsbury Dough Boy, brutally slaughters his own family members. I do not think it was merely Bolton’s mouthing-off that has now derailed the summit.

Trump has announced a date and place for the summit and after he did that Kim comes out and yanks the prize away. This leaves Trump with two options, go to the summit with the one things the rest of the world really really wanted, North Korea nukes off the table, making the summit a prominent propaganda coup for Kim, and make no mistake sitting at the table as an equal with the President of the United States, even this one, without having to even discuss surrounding his bombs is a huge win for Kim, or Trump cancels and is humiliated on the world stage by ‘little rocket man.’ Kim will gain a win no matter what Trump does and we will be left with a bunch of commemorative coins proclaimed Kim as ‘Supreme Leader.’ (Just imagine Fox news if Obama or any Democrat had called Kim by that status.)

My bet is that Trump will go, rather than face public humiliation but I would place money on that.