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Nuclear negotiations with a portly tyrant might not be the best time to crack a fat joke

It had all been going so well — “better than anybody could imagine,” according to Donald Trump. But then the master dealmaker, the intuitive diplomat, cracked a fat joke — just as he was sitting down to lunch across from the portly frame of North Korean despot Kim Jong Un.

Having earlier shared a historic handshake and exchanged warm words, President Trump and Kim Jong Un prepared to enjoy a working lunch with their aides.

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Addressing photographers in the room, Trump asked if they were getting “a good photo so we look nice and handsome and thin and perfect.”

As the camera pans away from a smiling Trump, it shows Kim across the table looking shocked at Trump’s comment, which appeared to reference his bulbous figure.

The cameras were then ushered out of the room. Fortunately — for the entire world — the leaders emerged together again and went for a stroll through the gardens of the Capella Hotel on Sentosa Island before Trump showed Kim his car, known as “The Beast.”

Cover image: North Korean leader Kim Jong-un meets U.S. President Donald Trump during their historic U.S.-DPRK summit at the Capella Hotel on Sentosa island on June 12, 2018 in Singapore. (Kevin Lim/THE STRAITS TIMES/Handout/Getty Images)