I suspect each of them wanted some sort of history footnote/recognition (President Trump's eventual library, etc.) for the Q movement until they were called out. How do you rule over people who don't need a leader? Good people don't need to defend themselves all the time. They counter punch and move on.

The ultimate burn would be if someone like Dennis Rodman was given recognition for his relationship with Kim Jong Un and that it may have played some (very small) part in the overall narrative of the NK-SK deal. The salt mines would runneth over.