Wake-Up Call: The #TrumpKimSummit and Dennis Rodman

Welcome to Ad Age's Wake-Up Call, our daily roundup of advertising, marketing, media and digital news. You can get an audio version of this briefing on your Alexa device. Search for "Ad Age" under "Skills" in the Alexa app. What people are talking about today: President Trump met North Korea's Kim Jong Un in Singapore, an event of such historic import that ABC interrupted "The Bachelorette" to show the two men shaking hands. The interruption sparked endless Twitter memes and some complaints from "Bachelorette" fans. "i just wanted trash reality shows to distract me from trash reality and u Interrupted it," someone tweeted.The brand angle: Did brands have something to say about the summit? They did. Coca-Cola made a video of people holding cans bearing the message "Here's to peace, hope and understanding," with the "Hilltop" theme song as background music ("I'd like to teach the world to sing…") Ikea was irreverent. It ran a full-page ad in Singapore's The New Paper showing an Allen key, the twisty metal doodad you use to build Ikea shelves and tables, with the caption, "Weapon of mass construction." The tagline: "Today of all days, let's make furniture, not war."'Peak 2018': Dennis Rodman's trip to the summit was reportedly sponsored by the cryptocurrency PotCoin. The former NBA star gave an interview to CNN and shed tears of joy about the summit while wearing a PotCoin T-shirt and a MAGA hat. As one Twitter user said, "We've reached peak 2018, people."

Tuesday Wake-Up Call: All about the #TrumpKimSummit, 'The Bachelorette' and Dennis Rodman

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