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Trump
salutes North Korean general
13
June, 2018
During
the summit in Singapore June 12 between US President Donald Trump and
North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong Un, the US commander in chief
saluted a North Korean official, newly unveiled footage shows.
Shortly
after Trump and Kim shook hands in front of the press for the first
time, the duo walked into a private room where a North Korean
military official stood. Footage released through North Korean state
television shows Trump extending a hand to the official, who
simultaneously lifted his hand in salute. Trump mirrored the officer
and saluted back before shaking the officer's hand.
North Korean TV has aired its first footage of the #TrumpKimSummit. Look out for the handshake/salute confusion 55 seconds in.
It
appears that BBC Monitoring was the first outlet to pick up on the
gesture.
US
conservative news and entertainment outlet the Fox News Channel lost
its collective mind in 2014 when then-US President Barack Obama
committed the grave error of saluting US Marine officers outside
Marine One while holding a chai latte in his right hand.
GOP strategist Karl Rove lamented the greeting, asking, "How disrespectful was that?"
Trump's
personal friend, Fox News host Sean Hannity, ripped the 44th
president as a "chai-swillin', golf-playin', basketball
trash-talkin'" commander-in-chief.
Trump saluted a North Korean military officer and the footage is now being run on state television
REMINDER: The right-wing freaked out when Obama "bowed" to a Japanese robot.
Will
Hannity treat Trump's military gesture to a North Korean general the
same way on his TV show Thursday evening? Nobody knows for certain,
and it's possible it won't get any air time.
The
New York Magazine reported in May that the pair "like to talk
before bedtime" and sometimes talk multiple times per day "with
one calling the other to inform him of the latest developments,"
so if Trump wants to squash this video from appearing on Hannity's
show, there is certainly a history of close communication between the
two that would enable that message to be transmitted loud and clear.
White
House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters the
gesture was a "common courtesy" to officers from foreign
countries in response to being saluted.
Here's the CNN take:
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