Trump-Kim Jong-un Kiss (Photo : NewAc21/YouTube)
In May, a restaurant mural in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, depicted Russian President Vladimir Putin and then Republican presidential aspirant Donald Trump locking lips. A local artist, Mindaugas Bonanu, painted the mural which gained international attention.
The two men, after all, are considered BFFs in an era when the threat of the return of the Cold War loomed over the world over global developments. Bonanu based the painting on a 1979 photo wherein Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev and East German President Erich Honecker were in a tight embrace, according to Washington Post.
New Bromance Pair
On Thursday, Shanghaiist reported that Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un impersonators were kissing lips-to-lips in Hong Kong. The two were flown in to film a music video. After the shooting, the two impersonators walked around the streets of Hong Kong.
If during the Obama administration, North Korea and Russia were considered allies but enemies of the U.S., since Trump became president, Russia – based on is personal friendship with Putin – is now considered a friend of the U.S., although there has been no such move for North Korea.
However, the fake Kim Jong-un thinks Trump is a great leader and a dictator like him. The two impersonators were not identified, but it was not Alec Baldwin who also impersonates Trump in “Saturday Night Live.” In one episode of the show in November just before the presidential election, Baldwin as Trump also kissed a fake FBI agent, the Putin impersonator and a member of the Ku Klux Klan, Daily Mail reported.
Vandalized Mural
Meanwhile, The Guardian reported that in August, the Trump-Putin kiss mural on the wall of Keule Ruke barbeque restaurant was vandalized when somebody painted white over the faces of the two leaders. Dominkykas Ceckauskas, the restaurant owner, said it was not a simple case of vandalism but “a terrorizing attack on freedom of speech in Lithuania.”
