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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...-kim-jong-un-rocket-man-cd-nuclear-elton-john

When Mike Pompeo meets Kim Jong-un in Pyongyang this week, he will reportedly attempt to smooth a path towards denuclearisation with a gift that playfully references a low point in relations between the North Korean leader and Donald Trump: a CD of Elton John’s Rocket Man.

The US secretary of state will present Kim with the CD along with a letter from Trump, who memorably turned the song’s title into an epithet after the North stepped up its ballistic missile tests last year.

If there's a such thing as a 20d chess move, this is it!

 

[Nobody_Important]

I'll bet $100 that whatever it is Trump signed it. He seems to be incapable of handing stuff out without signing it first it feels like lol

 

[Slayer-33]

Oh boy, is anyone UNeasy with these two?

 

[Gander]

All your base are belong to us

 

[Rentahamster]

Hilarious if true :lol

What a troll

 

[rokkerkory]

Maybe a MAGA hat?

 

[PuppetMaster]

I literally just said "HA" out loud in a public place!!

You got me this time Trump. Well played.

 

[Rentahamster]

Maybe a MAGA hat?

a CD of Elton John’s Rocket Man.

 

[Papa]

Ok this is actually amazing

 

[Death Dealer]

If there's a such thing as a 20d chess move, this is it!

Ostensibly, it's a joke. But I can see a deeper context to bringing up the rocket man insult again. It's like a reminder things can get ugly again if the deal goes bad.

 

[Jesus Carbomb]

Chose the wrong song.



Rocket Man is cute.. I guess.

 

[highrider]

That is undeniably clever lol

 

[rokkerkory]

NK says Pompeo was "regrettable" LOL. While Pompeo says there was "progress" lol