Trump says he plans to give a 'Rocket Man' CD to Kim Jong Un

Trump and Kim Jong Un.
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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo left North Korea last week without having met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, and though he passed along a letter from President Trump to Kim, he didn't deliver the president's gift: a Trump-signed CD of Elton John's Honky Chateau album, which includes the song "Rocket Man."

Trump said Tuesday that his gift-giving plans are undeterred. "They didn't give it. I have it for him. They didn't give it. But it will be given at a different period," he told reporters at the White House. "I actually do have a little gift for him, but you'll find out what that gift is when I give it."

"Little Rocket Man" was Trump's preferred insult for Kim at the height of their war of words in the past year and a half, and Trump has claimed the nickname helped bring Kim to the negotiating table in Singapore last month.

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As the president heads to Europe for the upcoming NATO summit, perhaps he can put together a few more presents on the way. Does Elton John have a song titled "Justin from Canada"?

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Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.