Fake Trump and fake Kim Jong-Un crash the Winter Olympics opening ceremony

It was huge.
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Fake Trump and fake Kim Jong-Un crash the Winter Olympics opening ceremony
PYEONGCHANG-GUN, SOUTH KOREA - FEBRUARY 09: Impersonators of Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un pose during the Opening Ceremony of the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games at PyeongChang Olympic Stadium on February 9, 2018 in Pyeongchang-gun, South Korea. (Photo by Ryan Pierse/Getty Images) Credit: Ryan pierse / Getty Images

The 2018 Winter Olympics opening ceremony in Pyeongchang, South Korea featured plenty of flag-bearing, fabulous outfits, and...political impersonators?

Per Business Insider, two men showed up to the opening festivities dressed as North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un and President Donald Trump. No one really had any idea why they were dressed up as two, uh, venerated political leaders, but they caused quite a stir.

The identities of the two impersonators are unknown, but they made a splash, posing for multiple pictures.

The two were eventually escorted off the premises, so we may never know their true motives. Was it a political statement about the relations between North Korea and the United States? A cultural commentary on the status of these two rulers? Or did they simply want to party it up?

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Petrana Radulovic was a web culture fellow here at Mashable. She enjoys exploring the growing intersection of story-telling and digital spaces, hanging out in book shops and art museums, and the tasteful meme. Follow her on Twitter at @pet_rana for #relatable content.

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