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'Weird, odd, a dumpster fire': Trump's North Korea summit coin ridiculed
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Date: May 22nd, 2018 8:01 AM Author: startling brethren Stony faced, Donald Trump stares down a smiling Kim Jong-un in a high-stakes scene, unfolding entirely on the surface of a coin.
Related: South Korea's Moon heads for Trump talks to try to keep summit on track
The commemorative piece was minted by the White House Military Office, which typically designs coins for Trump’s trips abroad, before an expected summit between the two leaders in Singapore on 12 June. The coin describes the meeting as “peace talks”, in English and Korean.
It is only a small element of America’s recent rapprochement with North Korea but it appeared to gain a currency all its own on social media.
It would be the first summit between a sitting US president and the leader of North Korea, if the meeting happens at all. Trump has said repeatedly he might pull out, and that scenario became more likely last week as the two governments traded heated words.
Many observers were worried the coin might send the wrong message.
Robert E Kelly ✔ @Robert_E_Kelly 9h Are you kidding me?! This is just gross. Whose personality cult exactly is this summit legitimizing? This is un-American. Can’t imagine what Fox would say if any other POTUS did this. Wow. Just wow.
The Kim family has long constructed an elaborate cult of personality around its male members, and loyal Workers’ party members often wear a badge with portraits of the country’s founder, Kim Il-sung, and his son Kim Jong-il. Similar portraits hang in homes and schools.
Tom Nichols ✔ @RadioFreeTom Not only is this premature, but it's exactly the sort of legitimacy Kim Jong Un was hoping for out of this dumpster fire of an idea. https://twitter.com/PeterAlexander/status/998619627700805633 …
1:56 PM - May 21, 2018
Trump has reportedly been focusing on the pageantry of the summit rather than immersing himself in detailed briefings on the complex issue of North Korea’s nuclear program. He has been particularly interested in suspense-filled announcements that could come out of the meeting, according to the Associated Press.
The coin announces Kim’s title as “supreme leader”, despite there being no official position with that name in North Korea. Kim is usually referred to as chairman of the state affairs commission in state media, while he is also chairman of the ruling party.
I think the coin does a great job of capturing Trump's waddle.
7:21 PM - May 21, 2018
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/weird-odd-a-dumpster-fire-trumps-north-korea-summit-coin-ridiculed/ar-AAxCubL |
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Date: May 24th, 2018 2:02 AM Author: Contagious drunken heaven *wattle (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983561&forum_id=2#36116988) |
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Date: May 24th, 2018 2:08 AM Author: Contagious drunken heaven Why do tax dollars pay for people to make stupid commemorative coins? Late night TV has the handled. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983561&forum_id=2#36117000) |
Date: May 22nd, 2018 8:14 AM Author: startling brethren WASHINGTON — Weeks before his planned North Korea summit, President Donald Trump is staring down a dealmaker's worst nightmare: overpromising and under-delivering.
As the Singapore meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un draws near, the president and his allies are growing increasingly anxious about how he can score a win on the world stage. While Trump has not suggested he wants to back out, he has struggled to define his objectives for the historic sit-down, and last week he drew fresh criticism from his foreign foil.
"I think that Trump imagined he would go into this meeting and be able to have a historic breakthrough with a deal, but it's clear he's starting to realize it won't be as easy as he imagined," said Jean Lee, director of the North Korea program at the Woodrow Wilson Center and a former Associated Press bureau chief in Pyongyang.
Trump, who has pitched himself as the ultimate negotiator, has focused on ambitious deals as president but has struggled with the fine print. He just hit the pause button on his threatened trade war with China, announcing an agreement to reduce America's trade deficit with China — but few details. He recently withdrew the U.S. from the international Iran-nuclear deal — without outlining a path forward with his allies. And his Middle East peace plan, which he deputized his son-in-law to lead, is months overdue and facing a more skeptical audience than ever.
Supporters stress that sometimes Trump's ambitious efforts do pay off, as with the massive tax cut bill he signed into law late last year.
Going into the North Korea meeting, senior administration officials say, the president has been almost singularly focused on the pageantry of the summit —including the suspenseful roll-out of details. He has not been deeply engaged in briefing materials on North Korea's nuclear program, said three people with knowledge of the White House efforts. They were not authorized to speak publicly.
Scott Snyder, director of the Program on U.S.-Korea Policy at the Council of Foreign Relations, said there's a risk that "the ceremony and the historic nature of the meeting be allowed to overshadow the deliverables."
Driven by gut instinct, Trump rarely dives deep as he prepares to meet with foreign counterparts. For the North Korea meeting, insiders say, he is motivated by the idea of scoring a historic deal and is tickled by suggestions he could win a Nobel Peace Prize — especially since Barack Obama won the honor early in his presidency. Trump has maintained publicly that his goal is to see the Korean Peninsula denuclearized, and the North has agreed to put its nuclear program on the negotiating table as a condition for the talks. But the two sides are still miles apart on defining what might be mutually acceptable.
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Date: May 22nd, 2018 8:15 AM Author: Ocher bossy digit ratio kitchen Trump overpromising and under delivering? Impossible (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983561&forum_id=2#36103055) |
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Date: May 24th, 2018 2:03 AM Author: Contagious drunken heaven "but has struggled with the fine print."
And little Noah "isn't good at math." |
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Date: May 24th, 2018 2:26 AM Author: startling brethren What (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983561&forum_id=2#36117039) |
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Date: May 24th, 2018 11:30 AM Author: Contagious drunken heaven Euphemisms. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983561&forum_id=2#36118592) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2018 8:21 AM Author: Transparent State Going into the North Korea meeting, senior administration officials say, the president has been almost singularly focused on the pageantry of the summit —including the suspenseful roll-out of details. He has not been deeply engaged in briefing materials on North Korea's nuclear program, said three people with knowledge of the White House efforts. They were not authorized to speak publicly.
Obviously. He lives for his own veneration. Everything else is secondary. |
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Date: May 22nd, 2018 9:14 AM Author: Rough-skinned exciting church It’s amazing how easy it is to make something up and you’ll believe it’s fact. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983561&forum_id=2#36103258) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2018 1:44 PM Author: Transparent State You think trump would be more interested in the nitty gritty details than the accolades?
The sources seem consistent with his personality. He likes praise and likes to be the center of attention. This isnt news. |
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Date: May 23rd, 2018 8:47 AM Author: startling brethren (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983561&forum_id=2#36110530) |
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Date: May 24th, 2018 11:41 AM Author: turquoise nudist garrison (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983561&forum_id=2#36118710) |
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Date: May 24th, 2018 2:27 AM Author: Irradiated Gaped Space He sat around designing some stupid commemorative coin for a stupid meeting that might not even happen. He has no idea about North Korea history and policy. He has no idea what the fuck he’’s doung. He lwpt at ththe chance for a meeting because all he knows is base level publicity stunts. He has no interest in anything beyond hat. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983561&forum_id=2#36117043) |
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Date: May 23rd, 2018 8:57 AM Author: stirring principal's office You haven’t killed yourself yet? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983561&forum_id=2#36110560) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2018 8:22 AM Author: greedy casino main people Libs HURLING their Sacagawea dollars against the wall! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983561&forum_id=2#36103078) |
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Date: May 24th, 2018 1:56 AM Author: embarrassed to the bone cruise ship (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983561&forum_id=2#36116970) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2018 8:39 AM Author: aromatic field libs still boiling over with rage that Trump ended the korean war (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983561&forum_id=2#36103114) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2018 8:51 AM Author: startling brethren (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983561&forum_id=2#36103157) |
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Date: May 24th, 2018 11:41 AM Author: turquoise nudist garrison (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983561&forum_id=2#36118712) |
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Date: June 10th, 2018 7:03 PM Author: Grizzly trump supporter (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983561&forum_id=2#36219644) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2018 8:54 AM Author: slap-happy marvelous corner foreskin Wow. Just wow. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983561&forum_id=2#36103169) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2018 8:54 AM Author: nubile site The media is really brazen with being an extension of the democratic party. This is a form of opinion laundering; they want to trash Trump, but can't even get a fake "expert" to find a problem with a coin. So they searched on social media until they can find some people bitching, copy/pasted it, and said "Here's what people are saying!" Needless to say, never would they ever copy/paste pro-Trump social media and report it as "news." In a hypothetical universe where everybody agreed the coin was beautiful and tasteful, it would become Not News. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983561&forum_id=2#36103170) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2018 9:10 AM Author: startling brethren Lmao expert testimony isn't needed to establish that this is a grotesque joke (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983561&forum_id=2#36103236) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2018 9:15 AM Author: startling brethren "In a hypothetical universe where everybody agreed the coin was beautiful and tasteful, it would become Not News"
Lol. Uh yes? |
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Date: May 22nd, 2018 9:05 AM Author: nighttime aphrodisiac office telephone wow random guys on twitter don't like the commemorative coin Trump is definitely done here now (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983561&forum_id=2#36103217) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2018 9:13 AM Author: Vibrant sadistic theater (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983561&forum_id=2#36103251) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2018 9:13 AM Author: vigorous resort scourge upon the earth What a waste of fucking time to write/read an article about a fucking coin (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983561&forum_id=2#36103253) |
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Date: May 23rd, 2018 8:59 AM Author: flatulent tanning salon cuck (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983561&forum_id=2#36110568) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2018 9:19 AM Author: at-the-ready jap institution @RadioFreeTom
Not only is this premature, but it's exactly the sort of legitimacy Kim Jong Un was hoping for out of this dumpster fire of an idea. https://twitter.com/PeterAlexander/status/998619627700805633 …
Yes, being the head of a nuclear armed state with like 1 million active duty troops is totally illegitimate until like a President meets with you or something. Libs, why do you hate America? We can't make peace and we can't make war without you whinging about it. |
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Date: May 22nd, 2018 9:20 AM Author: Aquamarine swashbuckling orchestra pit lmao @ what libs have been reduced to.
"Sure, he ended the Korean War, but THAT COIN IS AN ABOMINATION!" |
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Date: May 22nd, 2018 9:41 AM Author: startling brethren Lmao what a war (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983561&forum_id=2#36103435) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2018 9:46 AM Author: Aquamarine swashbuckling orchestra pit And yet it took POTUS TRUMP to end it. Odd case. If it wa so easy why didn’t any other president accomplish it? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983561&forum_id=2#36103466) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2018 5:30 PM Author: startling brethren Lol at this grasping (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983561&forum_id=2#36106846) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2018 1:41 PM Author: Transparent State When the korean war ends I'll happily give credit to all involved in the negotiations.
Until then..... |
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Date: May 24th, 2018 2:28 AM Author: Irradiated Gaped Space LOL (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983561&forum_id=2#36117049) |
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Date: May 24th, 2018 9:32 PM Author: startling brethren (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983561&forum_id=2#36122644) |
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Date: October 2nd, 2018 2:59 PM Author: Transparent State Lmao HEAVYHITTING HOUSEWIFE POLITICO ANALYSIS (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983561&forum_id=2#36940904) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2018 9:43 AM Author: Overrated titillating toilet seat station ljl this is pathetic wlmas (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983561&forum_id=2#36103446) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2018 1:46 PM Author: diverse hyperventilating den messiness lmao @ WLMAS's weird, pointless life (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983561&forum_id=2#36105409) |
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Date: May 24th, 2018 1:52 AM Author: startling brethren Lmao at how revealing it is that *this* thread makes you lash out angrily when u almost never take my bait (on Trump, Russia or any subject). Most Trumpcucks are fascists but your one of the intellectual polifag Trumpcucks that cares about your retarded ideology, so of course this coin mockery hits a nerve. People point out what a grotesque second-world spectacle this is, and you know they are right, but you’re one of the “intellectual” message board fascists so you buy into that retarded aestheticization of politics shtick (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983561&forum_id=2#36116958) |
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Date: May 24th, 2018 10:41 AM Author: Overrated titillating toilet seat station No it's more that you're a pathetic faggot wlmas (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983561&forum_id=2#36118178) |
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Date: May 24th, 2018 11:11 AM Author: startling brethren Lol at how TRIGGERED you get about politics (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983561&forum_id=2#36118434) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2018 5:31 PM Author: greedy casino main people Just ordered 10,000 of them (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983561&forum_id=2#36106858) |
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Date: May 24th, 2018 10:38 AM Author: Transparent State (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983561&forum_id=2#36118155) |
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Date: May 24th, 2018 10:46 AM Author: Floppy point Ljl @ Trumpmos and their tiny pink Nobel dreams gone to shit (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983561&forum_id=2#36118219) |
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Date: May 24th, 2018 2:34 PM Author: startling brethren Hope coin manufacturer gets paid at least (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983561&forum_id=2#36119946) |
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Date: May 24th, 2018 9:35 PM Author: heady gold lay They sold out (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983561&forum_id=2#36122667) |
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Date: May 25th, 2018 2:27 AM Author: startling brethren Maybe in NK and Moscow. Or maybe they're like those conservative books that GOP think tank donors buy by the bulk and then throw in personal landfills as backdoor affirmative action for conservative "intellectuals" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983561&forum_id=2#36124203) |
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Date: May 24th, 2018 9:33 PM Author: unhinged round eye Lol at you (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983561&forum_id=2#36122652) |
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Date: May 26th, 2018 2:55 PM Author: startling brethren (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983561&forum_id=2#36132098) |
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Date: June 10th, 2018 5:19 PM Author: startling brethren (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983561&forum_id=2#36219157) |
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Date: June 10th, 2018 5:22 PM Author: vigorous resort scourge upon the earth just bought 5 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983561&forum_id=2#36219171) |
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Date: October 2nd, 2018 1:42 PM Author: Crimson pocket flask wrinkle (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983561&forum_id=2#36940356) |