Trump's summit with Kim Jong Un hasn't accomplished much more than to give those two men a photo-up which they obviously feel will make them look good to their respective bases. Oh, and they both may have managed to make South Korea feel like it's being abandoned by the U.S. I can get why Kim Jong Un likes that; not so certain why Trump wants to take bows for it.
But I guess if you feared the outcome of that kaffeeklatsch would be immediate nuclear war, it was kind of successful. I have a friend who feels he's scored a success if he asks a woman out and she merely refuses and doesn't call the police on him. So congrats to Trump for not creating a disaster…yet.
I'm not like another friend of mine who has decided to judge Trump on what he calls the Sean Hannity Scale. The way it works is that Trump gets credit for any accomplishment that is so inarguably good that Sean Hannity would have praised it if it had been done by Obama. Since Hannity thought it was wrong for Obama to even say he'd be open for a meeting with Kim Jong Un, Trump failed that test by even going to the meeting.
I'd really like to see Trump achieve some good things — and by that, I mean things that are good for the U.S. and even for the world. Unfortunately, he seems to think that convincing his base that he's actually accomplished something is just as good as actually accomplishing it. And I guess in his world, it is.