Well, I guess these are suddenly going to be a collectors item in some corners of the universe, now that this will...
Well, I guess these are suddenly going to be a collectors item in some corners of the universe, now that this will not happen.
https://www.vox.com/2018/5/21/17377278/trump-north-korea-kim-jong-un-challenge-coin
https://www.vox.com/2018/5/21/17377278/trump-north-korea-kim-jong-un-challenge-coin
https://www.vox.com/2018/5/21/17377278/trump-north-korea-kim-jong-un-challenge-coin
https://www.vox.com/2018/5/21/17377278/trump-north-korea-kim-jong-un-challenge-coin
IK,R? GOP Pres. Trump doesn't think ahead, doesn't think through, and doesn't think deeply. Things like this only reinforce the idea that when GOP Pres. Trump faces a crisis where thousands - or millions - of American lives at stake, we can expect the same.
ReplyDeleteI mean, presumably they weren’t going to issue them beforehand. The lead time on challenge coins is such that you really do have to start production before the event. Especially given that they’re usually given out to attendees at the actual event, which means they need to be ready day and date. The timing part is just how that shit works — silly as the whole challenge coin thing is.
ReplyDeleteJasper Janssen That's the.point the coins are symbol of. These kinds of high stakes summits are supposed to be carefully planned - and not entered lightly, nor tossed aside lightly. Enormous planning - and commitment, especially of intangible but irreplaceable resources like credibility - have to be sunk into efforts like this. So either do it right - be serious enough that you really think it's going to happen - or don't do it at all.
ReplyDeleteThe coins are just a symbol of all that was wasted.in an effort incompetently run from start to finish.
Jeffrey Huo yeah, I was mostly responding to the box article, which seems to take the tack that the weirdest part of this is not the image, not that the summit was cancelled — because it was written before then — but that they these coins were commissioned before the summit actually happened.
ReplyDeleteAnd that’s like the one thing that isnt weird.