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North Korea airs purported footage showing Trump saluting one of Kim Jong-uns generals
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/06/watch-north-korea-airs-purported-footage-showing-trump-saluting-one-kim-jong-uns-general/
orth Koreas state news service this week has aired footage that purports to show President Donald Trump saluting one of leader Kim Jong-uns generals.
The footage, which has not yet been verified as authentic, shows Trump in Singapore shaking hands with assorted North Korean officials.
When he approaches a uniformed general, the president initially holds out his hand for a handshake. The general responds by giving the president a salute and the president, in turn salutes back.
The general then extends his hand for a formal handshake.
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Verified account
@BBCMonitoring
North Korean TV has aired its first footage of the #TrumpKimSummit. Look out for the handshake/salute confusion 55 seconds in.
Link to tweet
Agschmid
(28,749 posts)Portland_Anni
(164 posts)He merely exploits the issue to prop up his sagging criminal presidency.
C_U_L8R
(45,003 posts)This is your guy? Aren't you embarrassed yet?
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Remember how discombobulated the conservawhackos got every time Obama met with the leader of another country? If Obama wasn't "apologizing," he was "bowing," and every right wing turd floated up to yammer on about it.
Here's footage of Trump saluting a NoKo officer, and they'll be absolutely silent.
rickford66
(5,524 posts)Orsino
(37,428 posts)Yes, Trump tried to greet the general with a handshake, then when the general first saluted, Trump changed gears to return the salute, and then the handshake happened.
Trump seemed less flustered than we might have expected/dreaded, adapting rapidly to a variance in protocol. I wonder instead whether the general was supposed to offer a salute, or if he was discombobulated.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)selling out America...
* aka Dirty Donny (R)