| | | | | North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un shakes hands with President Donald Trump at the start of their historic US-North Korea summit on Sentosa Island in Singapore Tuesday. Credit: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images | | | Everything You Need to Know About the Trump-Kim Summit: Your rundown on the historic talks
Can We Talk About Dennis Rodman for a Sec?: His CNN interview, complete with MAGA hat and PotCoin shirt
Javanka is Loaded: What we learned from their financial disclosures | | | | Kate Bennett is off. Her section will return this week. | | What Washington is Talking About:
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Tuesday surpasses former Sen. Bob Dole to become the longest-serving Repub leader in Senate history, and members of a Senate working group are going to attend any future talks with North Korea, said Sen. Jim Risch of Idaho. And today is the Caps parade.
What America is Talking About:
It's primary Election Day in Maine, Nevada, North Dakota, South Carolina, and Virginia, and Ariana Grande and Pete Davidson are reportedly engaged after just weeks of dating, per People.
Everything You Need to Know About the Trump-Kim Summit:
President Trump and Kim Jong Un met for nearly five hours in Singapore. It was historic. It was surreal.
The two leaders signed a statement agreeing that the US and North Korea would: - Establish new relations "for peace and prosperity"
- "Build a lasting and stable peace regime on the Korean Peninsula"
- That North Korea would "work toward complete denuclearization"
- Recover POW/MIA remains
Trump also said the US would stop its "war games" on the peninsula and said he hopes the US removes its troops out of South Korea. That was news to South Korea. The South Korean President's office said "we need to figure out President Trump's accurate meaning and intention." And US Forces Korea said it received no instructions to stop military drills, per Stars and Stripes. The next joint military exercise between the US and South Korea is scheduled for August. So idk. Here's Trump and Kim's signatures on the statement: | | Credit: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images
The two men walked out at the Capella Singapore hotel -- Trump in a navy suit with an American flag lapel pin, wrinkled pants, and a silky, solid red tie of relatively normal length, Kim in an all-black suit, buttoned up to the collar, with pant legs that approached the width of JNCO jeans, and hair cropped especially high. Trump reached out his hand first, and patted Kim on the shoulder. Their hands remained clasped for about 12 seconds while they smiled and talked with each other. They then dropped their smiles and turned to face the cameras for photos. | | Credit: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images
They then met in front of reporters and Trump said he expected they would have a "great discussion," "tremendous success," and a "terrific relationship." It was a warm opening to the summit with a brutal dictator, and much different than Trump's adversarial remarks this weekend about the democratically elected leaders of some of America's longest allies.
The leaders met alone with only their translators for about 40 minutes and had a working lunch that included Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Chief of Staff John Kelly, National Security Advisor John Bolton, Press Secretary Sarah Sanders, and members of the North Korean delegation. This is what they ate: | | Trump showed Kim a movie trailer to a fake movie. He told reporters the talks went "better than anybody could have expected," called Kim "a worthy negotiator" and "a very talented man," and said they would "probably need another summit." He gave Kim a tour of the presidential limo, "The Beast" and told Sean Hannity he "felt foolish" using his previous harsh rhetoric against Kim but he did it because "we had no choice." Kim called it something "from a science fiction movie."
Trump said he trusts Kim, but admitted he may be wrong. "I may stand before you in six months and say, 'Hey, I was wrong.' I don't know that I'll ever admit that, but I'll find some kind of an excuse."
How Repubs and Conservatives Responded to Summit:
McConnell congratulated Trump this morning and said he supported the goals but warned the US had to be prepared to restore maximum pressure on North Korea. Speaker Ryan commended Trump "for not accepting the status quo" but also tweeted a reminder that "we're dealing with a brutal regime with a long history of deceit." Sen. Marco Rubio said he was skeptical of Kim and contradicted Trump, tweeting that Kim was not talented: "He inherited the family business from his dad & grandfather. He is a total weirdo who would not be elected assistant dog catcher in any democracy."
Ben Shapiro said he was "deeply skeptical" of Kim, called North Korea a "slave state," and said Trump's "praise for the dictator" was "disquieting," on Fox News. Erick Erickson tweeted that, "If Obama had had the last 24 hours that Trump has had, the GOP would be demanding his impeachment." And on "The View," Meghan McCain said North Korea is "the closest thing to Hitler's Germany that exists in modern time" and was critical of how "buddy-buddy" Trump and Kim were.
Can We Talk About Dennis Rodman for a Sec?:
For as unbelievable as the summit was, Rodman in Singapore was perhaps even more unbelievable. If you missed his interview with our Chris Cuomo, you can watch here. Wearing a MAGA hat and a shirt for PotCoin, the marijuana cryptocurrency company that sponsored this trip and a previous trip to North Korea, Rodman broke down on air about how emotional he was that the summit was taking place, and said he received death threats after visiting North Korea. | | Credit: CNN
Javanka is Loaded:
According to financial disclosures released Monday, Ivanka Trump made at least $82 million in income in 2017, including $3.9 million from the Trump hotel in DC and at least $5 million from a trust created in March 2017. The documents stated that at the end of 2017, Ivanka holds assets between $55 million and $75 million and Jared Kushner holds assets between $174 million and $710 million.
Larry Kudlow Hospitalized:
Kudlow was hospitalized Monday after a heart attack. The news was broken by @realDonaldTrump shortly before the summit began. The White House said Kudlow is in good condition and expected to make a full recovery.
Facebook Got Back to Congress with all Those Questions Zuck Didn't Answer:
And of course, they released it the day of the big summit when all eyes were on Singapore. You can read the full 225-page document here. In it, Facebook writes that they track things like users' mouse movements, app and file names, and purchases users make outside of Facebook.
Former White House Staffers on How Trump Rips Up Records:
Solomon Lartey and Reginald Young Jr., two former records management analysts who worked in the White House for decades and were fired, told our Alisyn Camerota how they had to piece together documents meant to be preserved that were ripped up by Trump. They spent "hours a day piecing together the puzzle" and taping the papers back up, Young said. | | Credit: CNN
Street Art Sighting:
In my years of street art sighting, no two figures have shown up more than Trump and Kim. There's something cartoonish about them, especially their distinctive hair, that makes them easy to easy to play with and mock. And they're both internationally recognized, meaning work about them can pop up around the world. | | Credit: Amer Ghazzal/Barcroft Images/Barcroft Media via Getty Images, @thebutcherbilly/Instagram
"I do street art on Trump and Kim because they both make me angry," London street artist SubDude, who made the above "American Psycho" and "Korean Psycho" pieces told me. "They are both egotistical narcissists who care mostly for themselves. Both make the world a worse place to be."
Trump and Kim are favorites for artists like Edel Rodriguez, who today shared an image of the pair dancing on a missile covered cake, and Lushsux, who swapped Kims and gave Kanye a Trump do in this mural in Austria in 2017. | | Credit: @edelrodriquez/@lushsux/Instagram
If you spot political street art, tweet me @hunterschwarz, tag me on Instagram @hunterschwarz, or email me at coverlinehunter@cnn.com with your sighting so I can feature it in COVER/LINE.
P.S.:
This beats any school assembly I ever had. At an event for Chicago high schoolers, Chance the Rapper brought out Childish Gambino, who performed "This Is America," complete with dance moves. | | | | | | |
