Now all of you I think are watching the reactions to the president's trip and the generic agreement that they made to make things better. And this morning I'm reading that the president said that we're already safer. Essentially, I forget what words he used, but that the risk of war has now subsided and that we're safer than the way we were before. His critics want to argue that point. But here's the thing: you don't really go to war with people that you're having nice conversations with and offering to give them money.

When was the last time that a country said, hey, if you let us we can make your country wealthier and we're not really asking anything in return except in a normal capitalist way? If we invest, people would expect a return, but we just want to help. How about that? We just want to help. When was the last time somebody nuked a country that was offering to help them? That's not a thing.

So when the president said we're going to stop our war games, that was as close as you can get to a declaration of peace. Because you know that shows that both parties are willing to sort of step back in very small ways. Because everybody can just redo everything. They've claimed they've stopped. It would be easy for North Korea to start testing missiles. It would be easy for us to start doing war games again. So none of this is totally important in a physical realm. But psychologically it just shows that we're no longer on the track to war. And as long as we're not on that track, and here's the important part, we don't have any reason to get back on it. There's no reason. What reason would you imagine that North Korea would say now let's go make our nuclear arsenal twice as big? Now why? What possible reason would they have to do that? Likewise, what possible reason would we have to attack their country? There's nothing to gain.

So we've taken this situation where you had two countries that didn't quite understand the motives of the other, didn't understand if the other was crazy or not, didn't understand if there were bad intentions or good. Didn't really know. And then what do we know this week? Well, Kim and Trump have a much better understanding of the other. President Trump has said that he trusts Kim and he thinks that Kim trusts him too.

Now they're skeptics, I believe, when they heard that. President Trump said he trusts him. I believe that the critics probably threw up in their mouths upon hearing that. Oh my God, how could he fall for this? Doesn't he know the history of North Korean promises? Yes he does. Of course he does. And does President Trump have 100 percent trust in his own mind that Kim will do the right thing? Well we can't read his mind. We don't know. But it's unlikely it's a hundred percent because there aren't that many things that are a hundred percent.

More likely Trump is willing into existence a situation that's better. And what he would like to will into existence is a situation of trust. So what is the very best way to receive trust? Tell me. Tell me anybody. What is the best way to become trusted? Give trust. Exactly. Psychologically speaking, the very best way to get trust from someone who is reluctant to give it is to give it to them first.

Now because we're the larger country with the larger military, giving trust first is a little bit easier and it's a little bit more literally to go first there. Now keep in mind that trust can always be taken back and that doesn't mean that we give up on inspection or give up on making sure that we do what we need to do to document things are working in the right direction. But in terms of what you say when asked do you trust him, the exact right answer was yes. Every other answer was the wrong answer. Right? Because in private meetings on both sides they can express whatever doubts they have in private. That makes perfect sense. In public there was one right way to answer that question and Trump pinned it, which is yes I trust him and I think he trusts me as well. Because that actually creates it. He's creating that world. He's not predicting it. He's creating it by just defining it as true and then living in it and letting him live in it as well.