The liberal fake-news media has widely claimed that President Trump sent Mike Pompeo with a copy of the song “Rocket Man” by Elton John to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
Here’s an example of such a fake news report, via Yahoo News headlined “Trump Is Reportedly Sending New Pal Kim Jong Un An Awkward Gift:”
President Donald Trump used to taunt North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un as “Little Rocket Man” for his frequent missile tests.
Now, as relations between the two thaw, Trump is sending Kim a gift: An Elton John CD with the song “Rocket Man” on it, signed by the president himself.
South Korea’s Chosun Ilbo newspaper reports that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who is in Pyongyang for a meeting with Kim, is bringing a letter from Trump and the CD.
Citing a diplomatic source in Washington, the newspaper said Kim mentioned the derogative nickname to Trump during their meeting in Singapore last month. Trump asked if he knew the song, and Kim replied that he didn’t.
Now, he’ll be able to hear the tune, and maybe return the favor with a mix tape.
Pompeo said he plans to discuss denuclearization as a follow-up to an agreement signed by Trump and Kim during their meeting last month.
Of course, the news was totally fake, as usual:
Despite rumors to the contrary, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo did not give North Korean leader Kim Jong Un a CD containing the Elton John song “Rocket Man” during his time in Pyongyang this weekend, State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said Saturday.
Speaking as Pompeo arrived in Tokyo, Nauert told reporters that the only thing Pompeo had left in Pyongyang was a letter to the North Korean leader from President Donald Trump. “He didn’t leave anything behind other than a letter,” Nauert said.
Rumors about the alleged unusual gift were sparked by a report in the South Korean newspaper Chosun Ilbo on Friday.
Kang In-sung, a Washington-based correspondent for the widely read conservative publication, had quoted an unnamed diplomatic source who said that Trump had signed a copy of the CD for Kim, as the North Korean leader had asked about the song during their meeting in Singapore last month. …
Chosun Ilbo’s report was widely shared – perhaps in part because it suggested a lighthearted side to tense denuclearization talks between the United States and North Korea. The story may have also suggested to some that Kim had a sense of humor about himself, despite his reputation as a totalitarian ruler.
That said, it appears the results of the most recent North Korean talks were grim:
North Korea said the outcome of the followup talks was “very concerning” because it has led to a “dangerous phase that might rattle our willingness for denuclearization that had been firm.”
“We had expected that the U.S. side would offer constructive measures that would help build trust based on the spirit of the leaders’ summit . . . we were also thinking about providing reciprocal measures,” an unnamed spokesman of Pyongyang’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement carried by the North’s official Korean Central News Agency.
“However, the attitude and stance the United States showed in the first high-level meeting (between the countries) was no doubt regrettable,” the spokesman said.
Pompeo said that a Pentagon team would be meeting with North Korean officials on or about July 12 at the border between North and South Korea to discuss the repatriation of remains, and that working-level talks would be held soon on the destruction of North Korea’s missile engine testing facility.
Regular Americans see this, and hope for peace, while the news of faltering talks between the US and North Korea is bound to make Democrats happy.