‘Beauty and the beast’

Whether he is tweeting from his bed late at night or wrapping up a historical visit to North Korea, US President Donald Trump never fails to raise a few eyebrows with his off-hand attempts at humour. Trump did it again yesterday as he invited his daughter, Ivanka Trump, and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to the stage while visiting the Osan Air Base in Pyeongtaek, a region just south of South Korean capital Seoul, after an Asia trip. "What a beautiful couple," he quipped before his audience of air force personnel, referring to Ivanka Trump and Pompeo. "Mike, Beauty and the Beast, Mike."  Earlier in the day, Trump had stepped onto North Korean soil in a historic move as he met Democratic People's Republic of Korea leader Kim Jong Un in a moment of high diplomatic drama.