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Trump courted Kim Jong Un with a fake movie trailer
https://gizmodo.com/president-trump-...ong-1826755454
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.3507984183bd
https://slate.com/culture/2018/06/th...mit-video.html
President Trump and Kim Jong Un had a historic private meeting earlier today in Singapore.
And while we don’t know exactly what was said between the two men, we do know that Trump played a video for Kim on his iPad.
The video was created to look like a Hollywood movie trailer and it’s honestly pretty bizarre.
The fake trailer, complete with sweeping music and a dramatic voiceover, imagines a world where Trump and Kim have brought peace.
And it even includes the phrase, “Destiny Pictures presents...” as though it was a real movie trailer.
There is a real “Destiny Pictures” in existence but it has a .biz domain and doesn’t appear to have any relationship with the White House.
The fake movie trailer was also played for reporters shortly before Trump took the stage for a press conference in Singapore earlier today.
Movies are a universal language, but it really is a weird format for diplomacy.
This is probably the first time that a global superpower has made a fake movie trailer to try and convince an adversary to make peace.