Donald Trump, of course, lives in an extremely Trumpocentric world. As a result, when he thinks about Kim, he sees a talented, ambitious young man who inherited the family business from his domineering father and made it even bigger, even in the face of a hostile world, by being clever and ruthless. Just like you know who.
The differences between running the world’s most repressive totalitarian state and the Trump Organization vastly exceed the similarities, but Trump doesn’t have the intelligence or the imagination to understand that.
Do you think Kim, for his part, views Trump as a sort of surrogate father? Somehow, I doubt it.