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Dennis Rodman cries on live TV and reveals Trump’s White House ‘thanked him for helping with North Korea’
DENNIS Rodman CRIED on CNN as he claimed Donald Trump's White House thanked him for helping with North Korea.
The NBA legend, who is pals with Trump and Kim Jong-un, has taken a three day trip to Singapore to get a front row seat of their historic meet up.
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Wearing a Make America Great Again hat, Rodman fought back tears as he said: "In my heart and soul, when I first went to North Korea, I was very honoured to be selected to go there.
"Once I went to North Korea I didn't really understand what the whole situation was as far as being over there.
"When I met Kim Jong-un, I didn't know what to expect...but once I got to know the culture over there I felt at home."
He claimed he got death threats for visiting the country, adding tearfully: "I said to everybody, the door will open.
";I had to hide out for 30 days, but I kept my head high, and I knew things were going to change…No more hatred."
The NBA superstar formed a bromance with the North Korea leader after a trip to the rogue nation back in 2013 and since then has been back to hang out with Kim four times.
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Dennis Rodman arrives in Singapore ahead of summit between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un
Later in the bizarre interview, Rodman even hit out at former President Barack Obama.
He added: "It's a great day. I am here to see it. I'm so happy,' the former star power forward said.
"And Obama did not give me the time of day."
Earlier, the NBA legend told Sun Online he thinks the US President iss the "best negotiator in the world".
He said: "I'm out there for the next three days as I didn’t want to miss such a historic event.
"I'm one of a few people on the planet friends with President Trump and Marshall Kim Jong Un."
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Rodman added: "I know President Trump is the best negotiator in the world and looking forward to a historic outcome for the world."
He was pictured arriving at Changi Airport around midnight.
Dennis told reporters he wasn't sure if he would meet either world leader during his stay, but said he wanted to be close for the summit.
Describing his relationship, which blossomed over a shared passion for basketball, Rodman told Good Morning Britain: "I hang out with him all the time.
"We laugh, we sing karaoke, we do a lot of cool things together like skiing and riding horses."
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Rodman is even responsible for the union between Trump and Kim, after giving the NK leader a copy of the President's book The Art od the Deal for his birthday last year.
Rodman said: “I think [Kim] didn’t realise who Donald Trump was at that time, I guess, until he started to read the book and started to get to understand him."
Hours before the summit, the North Korean leader was spotted taking selfies in Singapore as it’s revealed he’ll spend a full three hours chatting with Donald Trump.
Trump and Kim Jong-un later shook hands as they met at the Singapore Summit.
Trump told reporters: "It went better than anyone could have hoped."
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Kim Jong Un said, in Korean: “The old prejudices and practices worked as obstacles on our way forward, but we’ve overcome all of them, and we are here today".
The pair are the first leaders of their nations to ever meet, despite throwing insults at one another just months earlier.
They held a 41 minute private meeting before signing a post-summit treaty,
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