Dennis Rodman cries over Trump-Kim summit while hawking PotCoin. This is 2018.
It was a historic moment many didn't expect to see: President Donald Trump shaking hands with North Korean Leader Kim Jong-un.
And soon after, another stunner was broadcast live on TV: Dennis Rodman crying over the Trump-Kim summit while wearing a red MAGA hat and a shirt promoting his sponsor, the cryptocurrency PotCoin.
"Today is a great day," former NBA star Dennis Rodman says in an emotional interview in which he describes his relationship with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un https://t.co/atvQwe7jo0 pic.twitter.com/dEgQf3kBtE
— CNN (@CNN) June 12, 2018
It was A LOT, and left many wondering: Is this real life?
I'm watching Dennis Rodman cry on TV about North Korea and Trump because apparently I died and woke up in crazy land.
— Ben White (@morningmoneyben) June 12, 2018
I’ve seen Trump and Kim meet, and just watched Dennis Rodman break down and cry about it. Today is a very strange day. #TrumpKimSummit
— Fiona Clark (@fionaclark10) June 12, 2018
I just watched Dennis Rodman cry on live television about facilitating a historic meeting between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un.
Read that sentence again.— J.E. Skeets (@jeskeets) June 12, 2018
20 minutes ago I was watching a historic handshake between two unpredictable leaders.
Now I’m watching Dennis Rodman cry in a MAGA hat on the same network.
Is this real life?#NorthKoreanSummit— Zachary Gorelick (@ZacharyGorelick) June 12, 2018
I am watching Dennis Rodman cry on TV while advertising his marijuana based cryptocurrency, thanking Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam for introducing him to North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un... while Donald fucking Trump negotiates denuclearization...
Is this real life? Pls tell me no— Laura Jane Watkins (@pinkyswearing) June 12, 2018
As he wiped tears from his eyes, Rodman praised the Singapore meeting as a "great day for everybody" and recalled the criticism hurled at him when he visited the authoritarian state years ago as he spoke to CNN's Chris Cuomo.
"I took those bullets. I took all that. I took everything everyone came at me, and I'm still standing," Rodman said, referring to the hate lobbed at him every time he visited the hermit country known for human rights abuses and toying maliciously with nuclear power. "Today is a great day for everybody Singapore, Tokyo, China, everything. It's a great day. I'm here to see it. I'm so happy."
This isn't the first time Rodman's cried over North Korea. He shed tears while apologizing for his visits to the country during a 2014 ESPN interview, vowing to not return. And yet he kept going back. (While traveling to North Korea last June, he was spotted in the Beijing airport wearing a PotCoin shirt, too.)
Rodman went on to say that the White House called him, noting that the president was proud of him. It was quite a sharp turn from Trump's 2014 diss, in which he called Rodman delusional.
Dennis Rodman was either drunk or on drugs (delusional) when he said I wanted to go to North Korea with him. Glad I fired him on Apprentice!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 8, 2014
Ouch. What a difference four years makes.