The Eight Weirdest Moments of a Very Weird Summit
The historic meeting between Trump and Kim Jong Un was more spectacle than substance. But it was quite a spectacle.
by Yasmeen Serhan
Jun 12, 2018
4 minutes
It was bound to be a spectacle. This would’ve been true even apart from the outsized figures—Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un—at the center of the Singapore summit; the fact of an American president meeting a North Korean leader was itself historic. This not long after an entirely different kind of spectacle, in the form of the fierce war of words between the two last summer, with Trump’s “” directed at “” and Kim’s threat of an “” to punish a man he called a “dotard.” There was then the theatrical announcement of the summit, followed by its theatrical
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