--- title: Donald Trump Kim Jong Un Meme: Pants Get the Viral Treatment description: At the historic Donald Trump-Kim Jong Un summit, the world leaders' pants got the full internet meme treatment. canonical: https://time.com/5309680/trump-kim-jong-un-pants-memes/ author: Ashley Hoffman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-06-12T13:05:19.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:53:21.388Z og:title: Donald Trump Kim Jong Un's Pants Got the Full Meme Treatment og:description: "Peace begins with ill-fitting trousers" og:url: https://time.com/5309680/trump-kim-jong-un-pants-memes/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc5053067436fda06/698932d6db29875c6d25fe72/donald-trump-kim-jong-un-summit-2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3040 og:image:height: 1710 og:image:alt: donald-trump-kim-jong-un-summit-2 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Donald Trump Kim Jong Un's Pants Got the Full Meme Treatment twitter:description: "Peace begins with ill-fitting trousers" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc5053067436fda06/698932d6db29875c6d25fe72/donald-trump-kim-jong-un-summit-2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # President Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un's Pants Got the Full Meme Treatment > Sponsored content. 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Evan Vucci—Shutterstock/AP by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Jun 12, 2018 1:05 PM UTC President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s summit may have been a historic attempt at peace, but the more irreverent corners of Twitter were focused on the pants. After meeting face to face on Tuesday, the two leaders [signed a document](http://time.com/5309652/north-korea-start-denuclearizing-immediately-donald-trump-interview/) promising to work toward “complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.” But that wasn’t the only thing to come out of the meeting. Trump’s standard photo opportunities have a way of inevitably turning into funny memes, so it shouldn’t surprise anyone that the internet would also react to a less than key talking point: pants. Trump has made a habit of wearing pants on the looser side, and the North Korean dictator’s trousers were even wider. And as we all know Napoleon never said, where there are two men making similar unmissable [style statements](http://time.com/5252421/melania-trump-hat-reactions-memes/), the internet will reliably chime in. Fashion critiques about the pants have lit up the internet, as Twitter users found the image of the two leaders irresistible. “Peace begins with ill-fitting trousers,” one user wrote. And you better believe JNCO was invoked. See some of the Trump and Kim Jong Un memes below. Elsewhere, the [memes continued](https://www.news.com.au/technology/online/social/donald-trump-and-kim-jonguns-summit-the-best-memes-from-their-historic-meeting/news-story/2e63870d512aa80e73d4b35227e4754b). > [](https://twitter.com/TheStalwart/status/1006497478680694785) > [](https://twitter.com/jrivera84/status/1006380358709993472) > [](https://twitter.com/sousatweets/status/1006354304310145029) > [](https://twitter.com/ahameed02/status/1006343085767512066) > [](https://twitter.com/JasonKirell/status/1006347669420244992) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5309680/trump-kim-jong-un-pants-memes/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5309680/trump-kim-jong-un-pants-memes/"},"headline":"President Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un's Pants Got the Full Meme Treatment","datePublished":"2018-06-12T13:05:19.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:53:21.388Z","description":"\"Peace begins with ill-fitting trousers\"","url":"https://time.com/5309680/trump-kim-jong-un-pants-memes/","keywords":["Newsfeed","politics","viral","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc5053067436fda06/698932d6db29875c6d25fe72/donald-trump-kim-jong-un-summit-2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ashley Hoffman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc5053067436fda06/698932d6db29875c6d25fe72/donald-trump-kim-jong-un-summit-2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"donald-trump-kim-jong-un-summit-2","caption":"donald-trump-kim-jong-un-summit","creditText":"Evan Vucci—Shutterstock/AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5309680/trump-kim-jong-un-pants-memes/","name":"President Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un's Pants Got the Full Meme Treatment"}}]}] ```