Remember that disastrous summit that President Trump had with Putin? He said things about our intelligence agencies that most people agree with, but he said it while he was standing next to Putin. And so it's the worst thing in the world. And so I read about the end of the world and I saw stories about the end of the world because of that horrible, horrible tragedy at the summit. That Trump said something that shocked people because he's never done that before. Has Trump ever done anything that shocked people? I'm so surprised.

And then the next day after that terrible tragedy at the summit, I woke up and I got myself some coffee and I thought to myself, this coffee will be ruined now. How can I go on because of that awkward thing that happened at that summit in another country? Let me tentatively taste my coffee. Wait a minute. This coffee tastes exactly the same as yesterday. My clothes are not on fire and I still have my job. I'm pretty sure it was the end of the world this week. Why is everything looking the same? Am I already dead? Am I in heaven? Why is nothing worse? CNN told me things were worse, but my coffee tastes exactly the same. It's not even dripping out of the bottom of the cup. How could this be? How can I explain my world? My world doesn't make sense.

So the president's critics have some good points to make. They're not necessarily completely making up news. And there are criticisms of what happened at the first summit that are not completely off base. They just are completely unimportant. Did he say would or wouldn't? It doesn't really matter. Did he say no about Putin's meddling and cyber ways? It doesn't really matter. We know what he thinks. We know what the government thinks. We know what his strategy is. It's a good strategy and seems to be heading in the right direction. Do we care that Dan Coats was surprised about the information and that he was not consulted on something that his opinion would not have mattered in any way? Nope. Coffee still tastes the same.

Now if President Trump and Putin succeed in calming the Middle East, getting a good result in North Korea, maybe even taking down their nuclear threats toward each other, is anybody going to remember any of this? Will the historians say, just imagine, think of the future, it's a year from now and there's tremendous progress on everything nuclear from Iran to North Korea to the US and Russian stockpiles. Will the historians say, yeah they made tremendous progress working together, but we can't get over that would and wouldn't thing and we were shocked that Dan Coats was surprised about something at an event somewhere? No. Historians will not remember any of that. They will not care.