trump watch friday march 9th, 2018. president trump is aiming high. he's hoping to kill the nuclear threat from north korea and a high stakes meeting with the country's dictator. who among us doesn't want him to succeed or worry that it could fail leading perhaps to an even more heightened state of danger. in agreeing to parlay, trump is committing himself to a historic challenge, now the little boy president kennedy once imagined who throws his cap over a wall to force himself to climb over it. once having agreed to a meeting trump must contend with all the consequences. he's not the first president to trap himself into a contest that offers swift victory but also colossal embarrassment or something worse. nixon went to china in '72,