--- title: Colbert Takes On The Commemorative North Korean Summit Coin description: Never count your commemorative coins memorializing an upcoming peace summit before they hatch. canonical: https://time.com/5291575/donald-trump-stephen-colbert-north-korea-coins/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-05-25T16:13:20.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:46:17.879Z og:title: Trump Canceled the North Korea Summit But Colbert Isn't Done Talking About Those Commemorative Coins og:description: The U.S. already made coins commemorating a meeting that may no longer take place at all. og:url: https://time.com/5291575/donald-trump-stephen-colbert-north-korea-coins/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Trump Canceled the North Korea Summit But Colbert Isn't Done Talking About Those Commemorative Coins twitter:description: The U.S. already made coins commemorating a meeting that may no longer take place at all. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Trump Canceled the North Korea Summit But Stephen Colbert Isn't Done Talking About Those Commemorative Coins > Sponsored content. 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When the news of Trump’s withdrawal broke, Twitter users quickly poked fun at the premature coins, and later so did the late night comedy circuit. On Thursday night’s episode of _The Late Show_, Stephen Colbert conceded that while the summit is unlikely to happen, it may have to take place eventually because, as Colbert put it, “they already made the commemorative coin marking the occasion of the summit.” The coins are special, Colbert said, as the artists “were truly committed to jowl accuracy” and the back of the coin features “Air Force One escaping the Mueller probe.”  A commemorative coin released by the White House for a potential "peace summit," featuring the names and silhouettes of U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jung Un. Bloomberg via Getty Images If you did purchase a coin, keep them safe. [Trump now says the summit with North Korea could happen.](http://time.com/5291579/donald-trump-north-korea-summit/) Although as Colbert points out, Trump said, “someday a date will happen,” a comment so vague that Colbert would “call to complain if that was written inside a fortune cookie.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5291575/donald-trump-stephen-colbert-north-korea-coins/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5291575/donald-trump-stephen-colbert-north-korea-coins/"},"headline":"Trump Canceled the North Korea Summit But Stephen Colbert Isn't Done Talking About Those Commemorative Coins","datePublished":"2018-05-25T16:13:20.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:46:17.879Z","description":"The U.S. already made coins commemorating a meeting that may no longer take place at all.","url":"https://time.com/5291575/donald-trump-stephen-colbert-north-korea-coins/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"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/5291575/donald-trump-stephen-colbert-north-korea-coins/","name":"Trump Canceled the North Korea Summit But Stephen Colbert Isn't Done Talking About Those Commemorative Coins"}}]}] ```