Trump holds bilateral press conference Ivan Duque Marquez of Colombia

This is a remarkable video. It begins prosaic enough with both presidents congratulating each other in standard form on the work the two countries are doing to stem the drug trafficking between nations. The President of Colombia adds that new legislation targeting kidnapping and drugs confiscated on the street. 

Questions continue about Venezuela, somewhat related to Colombia, so, until five minutes in the Colombian President is still included.

But at about 5 minutes the press asks Trump questions unrelated to Colombia, and Trump turns to Duque and touches him and asks if he doesn't mind him continuing. The Colombia President graciously concedes. 

Notice Trump's feet square on the floor as he delivers his crisp responses about Venezuela, North Korea, and Iran, while Duque, at ease, has one foot on its side the whole time. Trump's pauses are interrupted with new questions he ignores as he finishes his geopolitical sweep in everyday language on everyday level of understanding, things the press should notice but don't. Things their audience could appreciate. For example, how the language with North Korea changed within a year, from lobbing missiles over Japan with threats to United States and in return, Rocketman diminution, to a beautiful reception of North and South Korea not seen before, and how Iran has shrunken in influence, pulling in their agents and giving up on controlling the Mediterranean, struggling economically. Trump insists it was Trump himself who denied Iran negotiations, not Iran, just another mistake made by our press, minor relative to their other mistakes. Trump tells the press what he thinks of them as he answers their questions.  Trump is telling us without saying it explicitly that Trump is controlling the timing of negotiations with Iran until they're sufficiently diminished and desperate to make a deal easing their pain. This confab is loaded.

Trump jokes around. He's having fun. He includes the Colombian president even as the press ignores him.

Back to Venezuela, a journalist asks about military intervention. "I don't want to talk about military. Why should I talk about military? Obama used to say what he intended to do. I don't do that." The Colombia President laughs

Observe how Trump speaks to press as children. He tells them to calm down, quit screeching questions, that he'll get to them. Then reverses and corrects their perception. One unseen journalist asks, "I hate to get back to military, but how important is it to national security?" Trump answers, "It's important to their security. It's a regime that could be toppled very easily by the military if the military decides to do that." Then Trump jokes about how the military spread when the bomb exploded. "They ran. I don't think our Marines would run. Hey Mattis, would our Marines run?" Mattis answers, "They don't know how to run." The Colombian President laughs. Trump beams. 

Then, twelve minutes in and to the end for five minutes, Trump delivers the most definite defense of Kavanaugh possible. He describes what the Democrats are doing with acute brutal honesty describing them putting on a con game. C.O.N. game. Tenderly, touchingly he describe the shock on Kavanaugh and on his wife and his children. How lives are carelessly ruined for their political goal. Even here the press continues to interrupt him with nattering irrelevant questions, their voices poking as darts, as he's on his roll describing with intense disgust what Democrats are doing to Kavanaugh and the effect all this has on our system. 

None of the comments I've read mention this. Trump's impulse is to fix what he sees is wrong. As with all their other questions, at the end Trump is telegraphing what to expect in terms of executive action and  future legislation that he'll support to correct this gross ugly ridiculous misapplication of government process, what he would have corrected, but they are not hearing it. This process is allowed to be sadly woefully damagingly wrong. Expect Trump to attempt to repair the process that Democrat party abused so woefully.

And the Colombian President, Ivan Duque Marquez, is sitting there thinking, "Bloody hell."