White House creates Trumps <3 NK propaganda video for summit.

Thebobo

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Video is shown on the screen near the stage at the summit. I can't find it elsewhere prob never be, Someone recorded it from the audience. Dont forget you Impeachara. also please note the NK flags and American flags interspersed togher all through the video, um just change the NK flags to Nazi flags lol.

Text explaining video from washington post.

Reporters thought this video was North Korea propaganda. It came from the White House.

Video in here --> https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...-from-the-white-house/?utm_term=.e96aff08466b

"Reporters crowded into a Singapore auditorium Tuesday, expecting President Trump to walk out and announce the results of his historic meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

Suddenly, two huge screens on either side of the empty podium came to life. Soaring music boomed over the speakers, and the reporters were bombarded with a montage portraying North Korea as some sort of paradise.

Golden sunrises, gleaming skylines and high-speed trains. Children skipping through Kim Il Sung square in Pyongyang. North Korean flags fluttering between images of Egyptian pyramids, the Taj Mahal and the Lincoln Memorial.

In a split-screen shot, Kim Jong Un waved to an adoring crowd while President Trump stood beside him with his thumb in the air. The pair appeared over and over again, like running mates in a campaign video.

The film went on like this for more than four minutes, with brief interludes of missiles, soldiers and warships interrupting the pageantry. Some journalists, unable to understand the Korean-language narration, assumed they were watching one of Pyongyang's infamous propaganda films. “What country are we in?” asked a reporter from the filing center.

They are playing a propaganda video before Trump presser. Not kidding. What is happening??!!

But then the video looped, playing this time in English. And then Trump walked onto the stage and confirmed what some had already realized.

The film was not North Korean propaganda. It had been made in America, by or on the orders of his White House, for the benefit of Kim.

“I hope you liked it,” Trump told the reporters. “I thought it was good. I thought it was interesting enough to show. ... And I think he loved it.”

The crowd sounded skeptical. Some wondered if Trump had not, in fact, just provided U.S.-sanctioned propaganda to one of the country's oldest adversaries.

But as the president explained it, the video was more like an elevator pitch. It was the type of glitzy production that Trump might have once used to persuade investors to finance his hotels, and now hoped could persuade one of the most repressive regimes in the world to disarm its nuclear weapons and end nearly 70 years of international isolation and militant hostility to the United States.

The nearly five-minute movie even had its own Hollywood-style vanity logo: “A Destiny Pictures Production,” though a film company by the same name in Los Angeles denied any involvement in making it, and the White House has not yet responded to questions about it.

“Of those alive today, only a small number will leave a lasting impact,” the narrator said near the beginning, as alternating shots of Trump, Kim and North Korean pageantry flashed on the screen. “And only a very few will make decisions or take actions to renew their homeland, or change the course of history.”

The message was clear: Kim had a decision to make. Then the film progressed from grim black-and-white shots of the United States' 1950s-era war with North Korea into a montage of rose-colored parades and gold-tinted clouds.

“The past doesn't have to be the future,” the narrator said. “What if a people that share a common and rich heritage can find a common future?”

The same technique repeated even more dramatically a minute later in the film, when the footage seemed to melt into a horror montage of war planes and missiles bearing down on North Korean cities — much like the apocalyptic propaganda videos Pyongyang had produced just a few months ago, when Kim and Trump sounded as if they were on the brink of nuclear war.


But in Trump's film, the destruction rewound itself. The missiles flew back into to their launchers, and a science fiction-like version of North Korea took its place — one of crane-dotted skylines, crowded highways, computerized factories and drones, all presided over by a waving, grinning Kim.

“You can have medical breakthroughs, an abundance of resources, innovative technology and new discoveries,” the narrator said, the footage more and more resembling a Hollywood movie trailer as it built to its finale:

“Featuring President Donald Trump and Chairman Kim Jong Un in a meeting to remake history,” the narrator concluded, as Korean words flashed on a black background: “It is going to become a reality?”

Haven't seen this before: Before POTUS comes out for press conference, WH shows a Michael Bay-esque video showing Trump and Kim, military weapons, bombs


The reporters had many questions.

“Do you now see Kim Jong Un as an equal?” asked a Time magazine correspondent.

“In what way?” Trump asked.

“You just showed a video that showed you and Kim Jong Un on equal footing, and discussing the future of the country.”

The president may have misunderstood the question, as he referred in his answer to his closed-door talks and a few carefully negotiated photo ops with Kim — not the U.S.-made video that presented the totalitarian autocrat as a hero.

“If I have to say I'm sitting on a stage with Chairman Kim and that gets us to save 30 million lives — it could be more than that — I'm willing to sit on a stage, I'm willing to travel to Singapore, very proudly,” Trump said.

“Are you concerned the video you just showed could be used by Kim as propaganda, to show him as ...”

Trump cut the question off. “No, I'm not concerned at all. We can use that video for other countries.”

The president was more talkative when discussing how Kim had reacted to the video, which Trump had presumably played for him during a brief, private meeting hours earlier.

“We didn’t have a big screen like you have the luxury of having,” Trump said. “We didn't need it, because we had it on cassette, uh, an iPad.

“And they played it. About eight of their representatives were watching it, and I thought they were fascinated by it. I thought it was well done. I showed it to you because that's the future. I mean, that could very well be the future. And the other alternative is just not a very good alternative. It's just not good.”

International reviews of the video were decidedly mixed.

"Schlocky" — Vanity Fair.

"Odd." — The Canadian Broadcasting Corp.

"One observer dismissed it as 'a word salad topped with gratuitous appeasement of a monstrous regime,'" the South China Morning Post reported.

The Daily Mail noted that as the narrator described North Korea's glorious future of technology and international investment, the video showed stock footage of the Miami Beach shoreline, not far from a Trump-owned hotel. The Spectator called the whole sequence "real-estate politik" — which wasn't necessarily a bad thing.

"The text reads like some godawful martial-arts movie trailer crossed with a corporate advertisement for an ambitious construction project," Freddy Gray wrote for the British newspaper. "But clearly, in some peculiar way, it works."

The president acknowledged that some of the film's imagery may seem far-fetched. North Korea is mired in poverty, internationally isolated, and has been mismanaged for decades by a family of dictators — Kim, his father and grandfather.

“That was done at the highest level of future development,” Trump told the reporters in Singapore, as if he had just offered Kim a multi-tiered vacation package. “I told him, you may not want this. You may want to do a much smaller version. ... You may not want that, with the trains and everything.”

He waved his hands. “You know, with super everything, to the top. It's going to be up to them."

And then, in his usual style, Trump was thinking out loud about the “great condos” that might one day be built on the “great beaches” of North Korea.

“I explained it,” he said. “You could have the best hotels in the world. Think of it from the real estate perspective.”

As the screens above Trump emphasized, he certainly had."
 
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The issue isn't so much that it's a propaganda video is that it's continued evidence of Trump wanting to treat everything like it was a business deal for one of his companies (and to some extent, that's exactly what he wants). As if a brutal dictator who tortures political opponents and threatens to wield nukes is no different than someone investing in one of his golf courses.

You know the expression "when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail?" Yeah.
 

theeedude

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Trashy. This is a Stalinist country running gulags and executing political prisoners. It's not going to become South Korea regardless of whether it keeps nukes or not.
 

hal2kilo

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Trashy. This is a Stalinist country running gulags and executing political prisoners. It's not going to become South Korea regardless of whether it keeps nukes or not.
Didn't you know, capitalism fixes everything. Just look at that wonderful democracy, China.
 
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But....but....Obama went on a World Apology Tour and stuff
Plus fast & fury and BENGHAZI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 

Capt Caveman

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The issue isn't so much that it's a propaganda video is that it's continued evidence of Trump wanting to treat everything like it was a business deal for one of his companies (and to some extent, that's exactly what he wants). As if a brutal dictator who tortures political opponents and threatens to wield nukes is no different than someone investing in one of his golf courses.

You know the expression "when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail?" Yeah.

And Trump Hotel's along NK beautiful beaches!

Trump to Kim Jong Un: 'You could have the best hotels in the world' if you give up nukes
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...rization-real-estate-condos-hotels/693445002/
 

glenn1

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But....but....Obama went on a World Apology Tour and stuff
Plus fast & fury and BENGHAZI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's fun seeing progressives pretend to be foreign policy hawks all of a sudden; the same folks who were advocating unilateral disarmament in the 80s have a case of the vapors now when POTUS is negotiating for de-nuclearization. Because that's obviously what the left-wing base wants, is a strong and aggressive stance on those holdout totalitarian regimes right? Maybe a nice military intervention to disarm them of their WMD?
 

Thebobo

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It's fun seeing progressives pretend to be foreign policy hawks all of a sudden; the same folks who were advocating unilateral disarmament in the 80s have a case of the vapors now when POTUS is negotiating for de-nuclearization. Because that's obviously what the left-wing base wants, is a strong and aggressive stance on those holdout totalitarian regimes right? Maybe a nice military intervention to disarm them of their WMD?

N Korea was never a threat to us. This is all a dog and elephants show and the only negotiating Trump is doing is for himself.
 

Indus

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So we can't spend our tax dollars on healthcare, education, job training, infrastructure, election security but we must spend it on a video to appease Kim Jong Un?

Aren't you proud to be an American?
 
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So we can't spend our tax dollars on healthcare, education, job training, infrastructure, election security but we must spend it on a video to appease Kim Jong Un?

Aren't you proud to be an American?

Or training preparation with SK...
 
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It's fun seeing progressives pretend to be foreign policy hawks all of a sudden; the same folks who were advocating unilateral disarmament in the 80s have a case of the vapors now when POTUS is negotiating for de-nuclearization. Because that's obviously what the left-wing base wants, is a strong and aggressive stance on those holdout totalitarian regimes right? Maybe a nice military intervention to disarm them of their WMD?

It's fun seeing Conservatives pretend to be foreign policy hawks; the same folks who were advocating War in NK in recent history now have a case of the vapors now when POTUS is negotiating for de-nuclearization. Because that's obviously what the right-wing wants is a strong and aggressive stance on those holdout totalitarian regimes right? Maybe a nice military intervention to disarm them of their WMD?

More simply put you guys elected:

A TV Star
A Man who has an Agent in Hollywood
A Man who has a Tanning bed/spray tan booth
A Man who has a publicist and has another one that he himself pretends to be
A Man who has had multiple wives
A Man who is running up the biggest deficits in history
A Man who is on vacation nearly every weekend and is tracking to spend the most of any President on travel
A Man who said "I prefer my war heroes not to be captured"
A Man who said "Russia are you listening..."
A Man who is incapable of saying something negative about Russia
A Man who has appointed family members to serve for him
 
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HomerJS

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It's fun seeing progressives pretend to be foreign policy hawks all of a sudden; the same folks who were advocating unilateral disarmament in the 80s have a case of the vapors now when POTUS is negotiating for de-nuclearization. Because that's obviously what the left-wing base wants, is a strong and aggressive stance on those holdout totalitarian regimes right? Maybe a nice military intervention to disarm them of their WMD?
Get your head out of your ass for once. The left has been consistent on North Korea.
 

glenn1

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Get your head out of your ass for once. The left has been consistent on North Korea.

I don’t give a shit. NK isn’t a risk to the U.S. and your consistency is stupid. Let them starve in peace with their nukes, the Norks aren’t going anywhere or attacking anyone.
 

Indus

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Well Trump is hard trying to make USA into North Korea where people have no rights and live in shitty homes in a shithole country but he wants to get back at European countries where people have rights, live in good homes with good healthcare.

Europe and Canada: SHITHOLE COUNTRY
North Korea and Russia: BEACON OF LIGHT

Make shithole countires great again!
 

glenn1

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Well Trump is hard trying to make USA into North Korea where people have no rights and live in shitty homes in a shithole country but he wants to get back at European countries where people have rights, live in good homes with good healthcare.

"Good homes" with lower quality of life and a tax burden twice as high as ours and population densities in the double digits multiples higher range. Sounds like what your average Manhattanite aspires to.

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theeedude

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"Good homes" with lower quality of life and a tax burden twice as high as ours and population densities in the double digits multiples higher range. Sounds like what your average Manhattanite aspires to.

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MrSquished

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"Good homes" with lower quality of life and a tax burden twice as high as ours and population densities in the double digits multiples higher range. Sounds like what your average Manhattanite aspires to.

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What's your first chart based off of. The OECD website has lots of statistics related to spending and that could both be bad or good. Chart is too vague to cross-reference.

Also I won't mind paying more taxes when I move overseas if I am getting a lot more for my money, plus a more egalitarian society to live in. Otherwise yeah, obviously, it would be a rip off to pay more taxes but get the same level of services. I have started to realize that just acquiring stuff is very pointless after a readily achievable level, and wouldn't care if I can buy less of it necessarily.
 
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Yeah, the unregretted attrition of homicides from drug dealers and gang members doesn't help those numbers. Thankfully the life expectancy of productive folks is higher than ever (there's a 12 year delta in life expectancy between employed and non-employed 25 year olds for example: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1403677/ )

So are you making that outrageous claim that life expectancy in the US is better than Europe based upon gang bangers? Care to explain why we pay multiple times more per capita for healthcare?


"Good homes" with lower quality of life and a tax burden twice as high as ours and population densities in the double digits multiples higher range. Sounds like what your average Manhattanite aspires to.

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But yet many of them are Happier despite the previously described crushing taxation

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