Big envelope, big news: On-again, off-again summit with North Korean dictator is back on — at least for now
President Donald Trump received a big letter from North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un on Friday — and describing the letter as « big » is, on this occasion, the literal truth.
Check out this revealing tweet from the White House Director of Social Media, Dan Scavino.
The comically large envelope was hand-delivered to Trump by senior North Korean official Kim Yong-chol on Friday, according to CNN. It reportedly contained a letter personally written by Kim Jong-un to Trump, and although its contents are unknown, the size of the packaging was in itself remarkable. Trump told reporters after his meeting with Kim Yong-chol that he had not yet read the letter, although the White House told reporters that he did so later. Either way, Trump announced that the previously cancelled June 12 summit with Kim Jong-un in Singapore has now been revived.
Before being delivered to the president, the letter was « carefully examined » by the Secret Service in order to make sure it contained nothing which was threatening to the president’s physical safety.
Naturally, Twitter users began speculating that the size of the envelope was meant to send a message about the allegedly diminutive size of the president’s hands.
Although Trump has reinstated the summit with Kim Jong-un, he made a point of lowering expectations for that event during a series of remarks outside the South Portico of the White House on Friday, according to the Washington Post .
