It might be more rare than Halley’s Comet or a Clinton telling the truth: CNN has actually complimented Donald Trump, and had a stunningly positive reaction to the president’s apparent win on the North Korea situation.

The words that nobody thought they’d hear came from CNN host Erin Burnett on Thursday, as the network that has had a particularly hostile relationship with Trump discussed a recently announced diplomatic meeting between the president and Kim Jong Un.

“Just an extraordinary evening and, of course, opening the door to the big question,” Burnett said to a group of CNN panelists, according to Mediaite.

“If President Trump could truly solve this problem, that would be going down as a great president,” she declared. “There is no getting around that.”

Yes, a CNN host just said Trump could go down as a “great president.” You’re not dreaming. This really is planet Earth.

Kim Jong Un’s willingness to sit down with Donald Trump would mark the first time a president meets with a North Korean national leader, and likely vindicates Trump’s tough-talking strategy against the nuclear-armed and reclusive nation.

“It’s huge, quite frankly,” admitted CNN guest Major General James Marks. “There might be something real here,” he explained about the prospect of a peace agreement that benefits the U.S. and the entire world.

Other journalists from CNN and competitor networks had similarly shocked and positive words about the promised meeting between Trump and Kim.

“Totally unprecedented. Kim Jong Un seems to be fully committed and ready to deal with the US,” admitted Will Ripley, a CNN international correspondent who has visited North Korea many times.

“Absolutely STUNNING news. (President Trump) to meet with NoKo’s Kim Jong Un,” echoed John Roberts of Fox News.

Let’s be clear: A lot has to happen before the promised Trump-Kim meeting actually happens … and even though that is itself historic, it is no guarantee that the volatile North Korean situation can be defused with a handshake.

With that said, it is incredible that the same outlets who thoroughly mocked Trump for tough talk on Korea are now openly admitting that he might know what he’s doing. Donald Trump spent decades building a reputation as a high-stakes deal-maker and negotiator. Most Americans know this, but it seems the liberal media has just figured it out.

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You cannot negotiate anything from a position of weakness, putting everything on the table and letting your opponent know that you’re desperate.

Instead, Trump sent a clear message to Kim Jong Un: Two can play this game. You launch a missile, we send a carrier. You do a nuclear test, we fly an entire bomber wing off your coast.

Then, from a position of strength, the president has room to negotiate. Once the two leaders actually sit down, he can step back from the “extreme” talk and promise to take some pressure off … if Kim makes concessions that benefit America, that is.

Liberals and the media — but we repeat ourselves — underestimated Trump in the primary. They underestimated him against Hillary Clinton. Now, as always, they have underestimated him on North Korea … but one victory at a time, even the media can’t ignore reality.

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The American manufacturing renaissance is still defying expectations.

Over the last 12 months, manufacturers have added 224,000 jobs. That’s the biggest annual gain since 1998, according to Wall Street economist Joe LaVorgna. Since the 2016 election, the economy has added 263,000 manufacturing jobs. Last month, 31,000 new manufacturing jobs came online.

It wasn’t supposed to be this way, according to the Very Wise People. Donald Trump’s promises to bring back manufacturing jobs was widely derided as impossible, and his supporters were mocked as suckers.

“Trump won’t be able to ‘make American great again’ by bringing back production jobs,” Mark Muro, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution wrote.

“What happens when people realize they’ve been taken?” Wharton emeritus professor of management Stephen J. Kobrin asked. “When people realize that he can’t bring back jobs and that they are not better off than they were two years ago, how does he use it–who does he blame it on?”

“Manufacturing jobs are never coming back,” Ben Casselman of FiveThirtyEight declared in the summer of 2016.

Instead of focusing on reviving the manufacturing sector, politicians should focus on managing its decline, the Very Wise People insisted.

“[R]ather than play to that anger [over lost manufacturing jobs], candidates ought to be talking about ways to ensure that the service sector can manufacturing’s former role as a provider of dependeable decent-paying jobs,” Casselman wrote.

Why was it supposed to be impossible to revive manufacturing? Globalization couldn’t be reversed. Automation would make human manufacturing jobs redundant. Trump had offered “few specifics” about how he would change policies to benefit workers.

“The larger problem for Trump and his supporters is that there is very little reason to think that any set of policies could meaningfully reverse the long-term decline in U.S. manufacturing jobs,” Casselman wrote shortly after the election.

So how wrong were the Very Wise? Just about as wrong as they could possibly be.

“The manufacturing sector is adding jobs at a faster pace than the rest of the economy, which hasn’t happened much over the past half-century,” Justin Fox writes at BloombergView.

It’s clear that a number of the Trump policies and Trump-related phenomenon are helping:

1. The massive tax cut on businesses appears to be helping a lot and may have even started helping before it was passed.
2. The perception that the regulatory environment will no longer be a drag on businesses, particularly manufacturing businesses.
3. The revival of domestic oil and gas, another key Trump campaign promise, contributes to manufacturing jobs.
4. Consumers sentiment and business optimism are at or near decades-long record highs.
5. Manufacturers know Trump has their back and will make efforts to aid their export efforts and fend off cheap imports.
6. Foreign manufacturers are moving jobs into the U.S. in hopes of avoiding tariffs they fear are coming.

Of course, Trump is far from a place where he can fly a “mission accomplished” banner over the U.S. economy. As Alan Tonelson points out, wages remain flat for manufacturing. And manufacturing employment is still 8.24 percent below its pre-recession peak of 13.7 million jobs.

There’s more to do. But the revival of manufacturing does not look as challenging today as it did a few years ago.