Here are my observations and opinions on selected stories of the day.

I HAVE ABOUT HAD IT with those “old Washington” pols and pundits who insist that President Trump is rushing into the summit with Kim Jung Un without taking the time needed to map out his negotiating strategy and goals.

Even Wall Street Journal columnist Walter Russell Mead, with knowledge of Trump’s “Art of the Deal,” writes of his concern for the president’s on-off-on again approach to gain the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.

Mead wrote of Trump’s cancellation of the summit as “an amateur move, critics sniffed; the flailing of a dilettante out of his depth. Mr. Trump has no more sense of strategy or direction than a primitive simian; sooner or later his luck will run out.”

Although Mead acknowledges that for Trump “a sudden willingness both to walk away and to return to the table is a basic tool of the trade,” he seems to forget that President Trump, along with his team of Mike Pompeo and John Bolton, are in no way similar to John Kerry’s “never leave the table” effort in Iran to provide President Obama with a legacy.

“Mr. Trump is not wrong to experiment with unconventional diplomatic strategies, he and we may find that this approach carries some unexpected risks,” Mead points out.

Mead, who authors the Journal’s periodic Global View column, seems more concerned with how the world looks at our president; and their worries about geopolitical unrest from Korea to Syria and Yemen to Ukraine, tariffs and the prospect of monetary instability.

When Kim Jung Un was firing off missiles and threatening the U.S., you will recall, I’m sure, that the media criticized the president for his “fire and fury” response and wrote of the prospect of imminent nuclear war over Korea.

By demonstrating our willingness to seek peace through strength, Kim Jung Un capitulated and sought a meeting with President Trump.

I don’t expect the president to head Mead’s advice to – “know when to turn down the heat” – until denuclearization is at hand.

ROSEANNE’S TWITTER insult of Valerie Jarrett, former advisor to President Obama was a mistake, but it seems that off-color comments made by left-leaning TV personalities about President Trump, Melania and Ivanka are passed off as political humor.

Jarrett, appearing on the left-leaning MSNBC, said, President Trump bears some responsibility for Roseanne’s racist Tweet, saying, “the tone does start at the top, and we look up to our president and feel as though he reflects the values of our country.”

While the president did celebrate Roseanne’s comeback success during a recent rally, he can hardly be held accountable for her repugnant remark about Jarrett.

I do believe, however that Jarrett, who was Obama’s “right hand woman,” was intimately involved in the Obama administration’s Deep State effort to delegitimize and take down the Trump presidency.

If ever there was a sorrowful look that said it all it was Jarrett’s and other staffers shown here during Obama’s farewell in the Rose Garden.

HERE’S A REMINDER of another Obama confidant who participated in the effort to stop Donald Trump. David Plouffe was Obama’s 2008 campaign manager and a senior advisor during his reelection campaign. Note the tone of his June 12, 2016 Tweet.

I hope you will remember this Tweet the next time you hear someone complain about President Trump’s departure from the norms and recognize that a more dangerous departure from the norms was taken by Obama holdovers in the Deep State, who sought to bring down the Trump presidency.

HBO’S MC CAIN DOCUMENTARY – The headline, “Something’s missing in HBO’s new film on John McCain’s life,” caught my eye in the newspaper this morning. I was curious because I didn’t take the time to watch it.

Missing was the failure to mention President Trump, despite that fact that the future president insulted McCain as a POW, McCain slapped back at him with a vote against the repeal of ObamaCare, and McCain requested that Trump not attend his funeral.

Not mentioning Trump would be like not mentioning the death of Mary Jo Kopechne in a documentary on Teddy Kennedy. Incidentally, she was, in a Kennedy documentary by the same producers of the McCain film.

”I think McCain will matter a lot longer than the politics of the moment, and Trump is all about the politics of the moment,” said Nicolle Wallace, a political hack.

Are you kidding me, Nicolle? Trump is about the moment? In 17 months, President Trump has accomplished more than all modern-day presidents in the same timeframe. He will go down in history as a president who kept his promises to Make America Great Again.

I see the McCain HBO as another example of revisionist history.

AN ASIDE: The title of Ernest Hemingway’s book, “For Whom the Bells Toll,” was “borrowed” for the McCain documentary, and the title of Barry Goldwater’s 1960 book, “Conscience of a Conservative” was “borrowed” by Sen. Jeff Flake (RINO-AZ) for his book.

THE FLAKE – Arizona’s RINO Sen. Jeff Flake – told viewers of NBC’s Meet the Press, “I have not ruled anything out,” when asked if he would run for president in 2020. Can you believe it? He decides he cannot win reelection of his senate seat, but he hasn’t ruled out a presidential run. Oh my.

         May God bless the United States of America.