Donald Trump Stars in a North Korean Reality Show
When the president became the first American leader to meet his counterpart in Pyongyang, he created a spectacle unlike anything America has seen.
Editor’s Note: This article is one of 50 in a series about Trump's first two years as president.
When historians in the 22nd century search for the moment when reality television was at its most influential, they may well pinpoint June 12, 2018.
That was the day entertainment converged with existential danger, low-budget cinematography with high-stakes diplomacy. Less than a year after threatening to unleash “fire and from around the world gathered in Singapore to transmit the spectacle. But perhaps the height of unreality was this: The former star revealed that he had sought to persuade North Korea’s dictator to abandon his nuclear weapons by showing him a produced by “Destiny Pictures,” more commonly known as the .
