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    'Shaking The Hand Of Peace': Unpacking Trump's North Korea Movie Trailer

    A four-minute fake movie trailer created by the Trump administration for Kim Jong Un is decidedly odd. Culture critic Glen Weldon asks National Security Correspondent David Welna what it all means.
    by Glen Weldon Jun 13, 2018 4 minutes
    A screenshot of a video shared on White House social media accounts. The video — a fake movie trailer encouraging cooperation between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un — was shown to Kim by Trump himself on an iPad toward the end of their summit in Singapore Tuesday.

    A drone! Miami Beach! A water slide! Sly Stallone! Machu Picchu! (Macchu Picchu?)

    Those are only a few of the many, many images that flit by as you watch a four-minute video created by the Trump administration (specifically, the National Security Council), which the White House posted to its Facebook page Wednesday morning.

    The video — extolling the virtues of international cooperation between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un — was shown to Kim by Trump himself, on an iPad toward the end of their Tuesday summit in Singapore.

    It's ... not subtle.

    The video consists entirely of rapidly edited stock footage (Clouds! Power

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