Diaper Wearing President watches as Chairman Kim's security guards rough up his new press secretary. What an honor!
?@JenniferJJacobs
A SURREAL, CHAOTIC DMZ SCENE via live TV feed: AP photog Susie Walsh yelling for Asian press to get out of historic shot, Tucker Carlson calmly videotaping, WH wrangler Hannah Salem running around, KJU cracking up, Trump trying to look dignified, relieved Kim didn’t stand him up.
   
Jennifer Jacobs
?@JenniferJJacobs
To add to madcap day at DMZ, the North Korean security was a little overzealous, at times trying to block US reporters’ view.
New WH press secretary Stephanie Grisham threw herself into it to make sure the US TV camera got into House of Freedom, and it came to body blows.
3:25 AM - Jun 30, 2019
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ABC News White House correspondent Jonathan Karl reported that Grisham "was not having it" when the North Korean security officials tried to block the U.S. reporters, "physically clearing the way for the WH press pool by elbowing and pushing aside a security guard."
Jonathan Karl
?@jonkarl
Apparently some of the Korean (North?) security team did not want the US press in the Kim/Trump meeting. New press secretary @StephGrisham45 was not having it, physically clearing the way for the WH press pool by elbowing and pushing aside a security guard.
2:10 AM - Jun 30, 2019
A video appearing to show at least part of the incident, which a source described to CNN as a "brawl," was shared on social media.
Edward Hardy
?@EdwardTHardy
This is the moment White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham got into a scuffle with North Korean security guards who were blocking US journalists
5:00 AM - Jun 30, 2019
Trump announced last week that Grisham had accepted his offer to replace Sarah Sanders as his White House press secretary. She will be the third person to hold the job since Trump took office. Grisham is also taking over as White House communications director, a position that had been vacant since former Fox News executive Bill Shine resigned in March.
Grisham had been serving as first lady Melania Trump's communications director. She has a long relationship with the Trump family and worked as aide on Trump's 2016 presidential campaign.
"Stepping across that line was a great honor," Trump told Kim after entering North Korean territory. He was said it was a "legendary" moment that could lead to progress on negotiations aimed at ending North Korea's nuclear weapons program.
But the Trump administration's efforts to get Kim to scrap his nuclear arsenal have not yet met with success. And many experts said the recent meeting at the DMZ was largely symbolic and unlikely to achieve any more results than Trump's two denuclearization summits with Kim.
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