There are so many crazy stories coming out of the Trump administration every day (see: Michael Cohen, Paul Manafort, Space Force) that's it's easy to lose sight of how there are other, even crazier stories that no one's talking about. If you think the current White House is a shambles from the front, the behind-the-scenes portion resembles an episode of The Office directed by Kafka. Or at least, that's our takeaway from stories like ...

5 The White House Made A Cringey Trailer For The North Korea Summit

In June 2018, President Trump met up with Kim Jong-un in Singapore to discuss, amongst other things, drawing a close to their long-standing dong-wiggling contest. Trump became the first U.S. president to sit down with North Korea -- a historic moment that the administration decided to commemorate via an awful homemade movie trailer.

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Let's break this down. The trailer starts with the words "A DESTINY PICTURES PRODUCTION" written in a golden font usually reserved for zero-budget Sunday school videocassettes. And so right away, we must remind you that this is a real video that came out of the U.S. government, and not something @MAGA_Dad_69 made in his spare time.

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Next up we see a "greatest hits" of free stock footage (landscapes, monuments, people taking the stairs in slow-mo) that gently fade into images of Trump and Kim addressing their citizenry. Meanwhile, the narrator informs us that out of the seven billion people in the planet, "only the very few will make decisions or take actions that renew their homeland and change the course of history." It's unclear who he's talking about (LeBron? Weird Al Yankovic?), but they sound pretty important.

As the video continues, it becomes clear that the narrator misplaced his script and began reading from a newspaper horoscope ("The past doesn't have to be the future. Out of the darkness can come the light, and the light of hope can burn bright."), and then he just started winging it. ("A new story. A new beginning. One of peace? Two men. Two leaders. One destiny.")

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The basic message seems to be that if Kim is brave enough to "shake the hand of peace," both leaders will take us into "a new world" of "friendship, respect [cue photo of Trump with Sylvester Stallone], and goodwill." And hey, look at all these "investment" opportunities in cloudy N.K.!

And if the two leaders don't see eye to eye? The video shows us footage of missiles and bombers being deployed, which is always reassuring during a peace summit.

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The whole thing is so bizarre that when the video was played to journalists before a press conference with Trump and Kim, everyone assumed it was North Korean propaganda (which probably caused North Korea's actual propaganda team to quit in disgust). There's no word on what Trump thought of the trailer, but considering that he reportedly showed it to Kim on his iPad, it's fair to say that he likes it. (Or they were comparing prison camps. It's hard to say, really.)