If you tuned into social media Friday morning, you probably saw the following bit of weirdness from retired basketball player Dennis Rodman:
Hoping for this after my two friends and leaders meet next month.#Peace #Love #NotWar #Diplomacy pic.twitter.com/NEZijYzoLi
— Dennis Rodman (@dennisrodman) March 30, 2018
“Hoping for this after my two friends and leaders meet next month. #Peace #Love #NotWar #Diplomacy,” he tweeted.
As you can see, his note includes a picture of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un “wearing” one of those “Make America Great Again” hats popularized by President Trump during the 2016 presidential election.
Rodman’s tweet comes not long after the president agreed to a meeting with Kim, which would mark a first for a U.S. president since the brutal North Korean regime first rose to power.
“For years and through many administrations, everyone said that peace and the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula was not even a small possibility. Now there is a good chance that Kim Jong Un will do what is right for his people and for humanity. Look forward to our meeting!” Trump tweeted Wednesday.
As it turns out, Rodman is a fan of Trump. The former NBA player, who has traveled to North Korea on multiple occasions, also counts the North Korean boy-dictator as one of his personal friends. And not just any friend, but a “friend for life.” It’s serious, folks.
Truly, we are living in the weirdest timeline. The only way this gets weirder is if Trump and Kim come to a denuclearization deal and Rodman is nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. Did we do something as a society to deserve this? Probably. Or maybe not. Consider the following news fact, which you may have missed from last April 2016:
In April 2016, the Large Hadron Collider was shut down after a weasel fell into it.
— Quite Interesting (@qikipedia) March 22, 2018
That’s it! That’s the moment when reality went off the rails, and we were dumped into the dumbest timeline.
There’s an alternate version of earth out there somewhere where the president isn’t a retired game show host and former NBA stars aren’t trying to broker peace deals with North Korea. But that’s not this world. In this version of reality, we have former athletes on social media photo-shopping American campaign swag onto potbellied dictators.
I blame the weasel.
