Keith Burgess-Jackson, J.D., Ph.D.

I agree with columnist Nicholas Kristof (April 30 Perspectives, “Korean Peninsula Peace?”): The summit meeting may be a lot of political theater and may fall apart; still, it is better than war.

But a Nobel Peace Prize for our president? Not in a long shot. Not for bellicose, tweeting Donald Trump, who behaves like a bully and has been roundly criticized around the world for his desire to ban Muslims from entering the United States, his derogatory remarks against women, his stance regarding DACA and Mexicans, and his praise for the alt-right.

Republicans are promoting Mr. Trump as the only one who deserves credit for the possibility of peace in the Korean Peninsula. Yet China, Russia, Moon Jae-In (South Korea’s president) and Kim Jong Un merit more recognition.

POTUS, in his recent Michigan rally, repeated the falsehood that he alone made it happen, and some people believe his award is a done deal.

“Nobel for the Donald” is propaganda to pump up the president’s image and help him win re-election.

ADA KLEIN

Squirrel Hill

This afternoon, at a Texaco station in Fort Worth, Texas, I paid $2.679 per gallon for regular unleaded gasoline. What're y'all payin' in your neck o' the woods?

“This isn’t some game. You are screwing with the work of the president of the United States.” John Dowd, March 2018. With North Korea, China, the Middle East and so much more, there is not much time to be thinking about this, especially since there was no Russian “Collusion.”

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 2, 2018

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Justice is concerned with the individual, but only under certain sorts of description. A just man gives each individual his due and decides each case on its merits: but what is due to a man depends on only certain sorts of factors, and a just man must take care to treat like cases alike. It is not an exercise of justice to give a man something merely because he wants it or needs it, although it may be an exercise of generosity or of liberty or of humanity so to do. Nor is it an exercise of justice to treat a man the same as everybody else, although it may be an exercise of equality, or of legality or of uniformity so to do. Justice looks towards the individual, but with a dispassionate gaze. It sees him not in himself, with his own aspirations, idiosyncrasies and foibles, but in relation to other men, with whom he must be compared, assessed and weighed. It is a cold virtue. It cannot love you for yourself alone, but only for your yellow hair, or some other attributes of yours that are universalisable and the grounds of a rational judgment.

(J. R. Lucas, "Justice," Philosophy 47 [July 1972]: 229-48, at 229)

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Donald Trump's approval rating is 49%. Barack Obama's approval rating at the same point of his presidency was 48%.

Here is Ann Coulter's latest column.