Trump immediately grumbled about the media to Kim Jong Un
 
 
While President Trump sat for photos and a brief chat with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un before the first stage of their negotiations in Singapore on Tuesday, he immediately found an opportunity to grumble about the media.
Whatever Trump sought to share off-camera, Kim — whose regime keeps a strict hold on communications within North Korea and runs the country's few media outlets — can hardly trade war stories with Trump about frustration with an uncooperative press.
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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.
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