NK is the largest uncut diamond in the world. Trump has a cleaver and a hammer, he told Kim the choice is yours, diamond or dust...
Posted on 06/17/2018 1:42:34 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The four-minute movie trailer was created to show Chairman Kim the power and glory that could be his if he lays down his nukes.
President Trump pitched paradise to Kim Jong Un in a four-minute movie trailer made especially for the summit in Singapore last week, complete with cautionary tale, dramatic musical score and a lot left for the imagination. It features the two men and images of glory and strength: the perfect tease for the chubby millennial ruling North Korea known for killing off family members and playing video games.
Kim is like Trump. They love screens and they especially love seeing themselves on screens, so in Trump’s quest to forge a new relationship with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, he is seducing Kim with an offer to play the hero in blockbuster Hollywood fashion. The showmanship is impressive and I have to give it to Trump for the acting. He plays the Great Seducer.
If you watched Trump and Kim interact in front of the flags on television or see the movie trailer, you might agree with me they looked like adolescent panda bears pawing each other. Trump wooing Kim with praise and groping his arms and hands and shoulders while heaping praise – ridiculous amounts, with fake sincerity – made for television. Its like watching a daytime soap opera and Donald Trump plays Don Juan of the World: mesmerizing. Stupefying, even. Moderate consumption is advised.
“I’ll do whatever it takes to make the world a safer place,” said our president, and he wasn’t kidding. He had his guys in the government, dba “Destiny Productions,” create a fake Hollywood movie trailer emblazoned with a faux White House logo starring – you guessed it – The Big Guy. It’s so corny it could be brilliant – like when the CIA used the guise of making a science-fiction movie in Tehran during the hostage crisis to rescue American diplomats enhanced and sprinkled with magic pixie dust in the movie “Argo.” If it looks shimmery, it is shimmery.
Trump’s pheromones are his values – sex, condos and television. All of the patting on the back and acting starstruck – in a movie – as president while scenes of a white horse fording raging rivers, and smiling, well-nourished children laughing in bumper cars appear in the background. This is what high-speed rail and prosperous, glittering cities will look like if you come with me, pal, it suggests. The summit and the movie was an enticement to lead young Kim astray using an elixir potent among strongmen of any age: more power and more glory and now in HD and on television.
The summit, but even more so the fake movie, was like a perfume-bottlelike puff of what it’s like to have the life of Donald Trump, leader of the free world and owner of golf courses, palaces, and fancy hotels everywhere. Fame and fortune and money rolling in like thunder. Just agree to completely denuclearize the Korean peninsula, Chairman Kim, and we have a deal. You’ll be a star, like me – or a beloved wiseman – or both – whatever you want – plus a membership in the international big boys’ club thrown in for good measure. Maybe there’s a timeshare they talked about. Trump’s killer card, one he’s holding close to the chest, is offering up adoption by Melania. He knows lil’ Kim’s vulnerability and he’s exploiting it live. It’s unclear whether to laugh or cry, really, like seeing the sloppy seduction of someone in a bar, except Trump is stone sober. Netflix is reality.
Imagine if in addition to getting a Nobel Peace Award for striking a deal with North Korea, Trump also gets an Academy Award for best picture? It would be a Trump-style retort to Hollywood and elites who also mocked his chances of winning the White House. But then again it could not happen. Well have to see.
Here’s the Washington Post reporting of the movie, but be sure to catch the video:
“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’s 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-fictionlike 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, accompanied always by Trump. “Two men; two leaders; one destiny.”
“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: “Is it going to become a reality?”
Coming soon to theaters near you.
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Cynthia Dill is a civil rights lawyer and former state senator. She can be contacted at:
dillesquire@gmail.com
dillesquire.com
Hey Lefties, better go visit North Korea now, before the “Yankees” ruin it.
I had doubts at first. But I think Trump may have just pulled off something very big with North Korea. I think we are about to watch it snowball and truly be a result that astonishes the world.
She can write her snarky stories. History is passing her by. Also, she knows in her heart, Obama and Hillary could have never pulled this off.
NK is the largest uncut diamond in the world. Trump has a cleaver and a hammer, he told Kim the choice is yours, diamond or dust...
Trump is practicing sales, not diplomacy.
Don’t big time developers leverage video as part of their sales mix?
Yup, before we ruin their organic gardening.
Not gonna read it and maybe I’m wrong, but first impression from the headline is that it equates Trumps offer to Kim as Satan offering all these riches to Jesus if he would just follow.
Crazy people value ideology over everything.
If Kim were clinically insane, he would pursue a Communist utopia in NK, no matter what the cost.
But, if he is not insane, if he merely values a cult of personality, if he wants to be worshiped as his grandfather is worshiped, if he wants to be the man who turned NK into a great, modern country, then Trump’s sales campaign would seal that deal pretty quick.
To me the best fictional movies can cause the audience to feel uplifted, to learn to see the bright side of life against the odds, to inspire one to live life better, to gain hope, to feel empathy, to cheer a good outcome
The only thing better than good fiction is good reality.
Who the hell roots against that?
Take your sour pickles elsewhere Ms Dill
Rosemary Clooney provided the shopping list -
Come on-a my house my house, I’m gonna give you candy
Come on-a my house, my house, I’m gonna give a you
Apple a plum and apricot-a too eh
Come on-a my house, my house a come on
Come on-a my house, my house a come on
Come on-a my house, my house I’m gonna give a you
Figs and dates and grapes and cakes eh
Come on-a my house, my house a come on
Come on-a my house, my house a come on
Come on-a my house, my house, I’m gonna give you candy
Come on-a my house, my house, I’m gonna give you everything
Come on-a my house my house, I’m gonna give you Christmas tree
Come on-a my house, my house, I’m gonna give you
Marriage ring and a pomegranate too ah
Come on-a my house, my house a come on
Come on-a my house, my house a come on
Come on-a my house, my house I’m gonna give a you
Peach and pear and I love your hair ah
Come on-a my house, my house a come on
Come on-a my house, my house a come on
Come on-a my house, my house, I’m gonna give you Easta-egg
Come on-a my house, my house, I’m gonna give you
Everything - everything - everything
I liked the lights from space image where N. Korea goes from dark to as lighted as S. Korea.
Does this author want them to remain a repressive, isolated, backward and poor nation?
It would appear so.
This is awful stuff.
The North Koreans are so hungry and desperate that removing the communist leash would create an explosion of effort that would last at least for a generation before they get fat and complacent.
> fake sincerity
This is a common mistake liberals make.
First, they don’t know whether he’s sincere or not and just assert their opinion about it then make that a premise for their screed. (while at the same time assuming his jokes are sincere hatred for various individuals or groups).
Second, whether he’s sincere or not, it’s VERY GOOD to be his friend, and VERY UNGOOD to go against him - that seems to be a constant. He can go from enemy to friend (or vice versa) in minutes. And it doesn’t seem to be on a whim, but on on who is working with him to improve the future. And, the future has to improve for BOTH PARTIES for any deal to work - he’s not trying to destroy anyone, only to make life better for everyone, like any good leader or negotiator does (and liberals cannot comprehend since destroying “the enemy” is usually more important than advancing their cause when they negotiate).
Leftie secular readers won't catch the Biblical reference.
That is what I took from it. As if Kim is Jesus...
LOL!
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