" Kim responded by calling Trump a "mentally deranged U.S. dotard.
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Kim Jong Un calls Trump a mentally deranged U.S. dotard.
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" Kim responded by calling Trump a "mentally deranged U.S. dotard.
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" Kim's comments had people racing to their phones and computers to look up the word "dotard," prompting Merriam-Webster to tweet out the definition and note that "searches for 'dotard' are high as a kite.
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Oh no, he's just a dotard who can't read the TelePrompTer.
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READ: North Korea might start calling Trump 'dotard' again It's somewhat odd North Korea is only threatening to call Trump a dotard when "heedless and erratic old man" is effectively the definition of the arcane insult.
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" Kim has returned the favor, calling Trump a "mentally deranged U.S. dotard.
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Kim responded by calling the U.S. president a "mentally deranged U.S. dotard".
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" Kim responded to Trump by calling him a "mentally deranged U.S. dotard.
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Translated from Korean to English, the word "dotard" generally means an imbecile.
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" Mr. Kim retorted that Mr. Trump was "a mentally deranged U.S. dotard.
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I will surely and definitely tame the mentally deranged US dotard with fire.
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Kim has responded by calling the U.S. president a "mentally deranged U.S. dotard".
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I will surely and definitely tame the mentally deranged U.S. dotard with fire.
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" Kim has responded by calling the U.S. president a "mentally deranged U.S. dotard.
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Remember the "short and fat" and "dotard" Twitter-fest between Kim and Trump?
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Kim later called Trump a "dotard," provoking Trump to call Kim short and fat.
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And they have also reverted to calling Mr. Trump insulting names, among them "dotard."
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" Kim responds with a threat to "tame the mentally deranged U.S. dotard with fire.
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"I will surely and definitely tame the mentally deranged U.S. dotard with fire," he said.
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D-O-T-A-R-D. Dotard. The internet learned a new word Thursday night.
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"Dotard," a word in vogue in Shakespearean times, is now a sure bet for revival.
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"I will surely and definitely tame the mentally deranged U.S. dotard with fire," Kim said.
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North Korea responded to Trump's renewed nicknamed by bringing back its own 2017 insult: dotard.
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But there would be fewer bad #dotard tweets — and that's something we can all get behind.
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Unfortunately, May can't even turn getting insulted by the world's most powerful dotard into a win.
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And the Korean word that translated to "dotard" was "neukdari" — a lazy, useless and demented person.
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" He vowed retribution: "I will surely and definitely tame the mentally deranged U.S. dotard with fire.
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In September Kim described Trump as a "mentally deranged U.S. dotard" whom he would tame with fire.
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Kim denounced the U.S. president as the "mentally deranged U.S. dotard" who would be "tamed ... with fire".
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The word "dotard" in particular sent people to the dictionary to look up the arcane put-down.
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" Mr. Kim called Mr. Trump "a mentally deranged U.S. dotard" and threatens to "definitely tame" him with "fire.
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For the present, a stalemate between the "Rocket Man" and "the Dotard" is preferable to a military conflict.
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Photos showed Kim talking amicably with Trump, a man he once derided as a "mentally deranged U.S. dotard".
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Little Rocket Man, the Dotard, standing together, shaking hands, meeting a certain level of courtesy, diplomatic approach to each other.
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Oh, before the love letters, Kim warned: "I will surely and definitely tame the mentally deranged U.S. dotard with fire."
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Kim responded by dismissing the president as a "mentally deranged dotard" who would "pay dearly" for his threats against Pyongyang.
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In response, Kim called Trump "the mentally deranged U.S. dotard" and threatened to make him "pay dearly" for his rhetoric.
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Brace yourselves, because North Korea is pulling out the big guns: They might start calling President Trump a "dotard" again.
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That Mr. Kim would call Mr. Trump a "mentally deranged U.S. dotard" on Friday was something more of a surprise.
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" At several points in 2017 and early 2018, Mr. Trump and Mr. Kim traded insults like "rocket man" and "dotard.
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" And in September, Trump referred to Kim as "rocket man," to which the communist leader responded by calling Trump a "dotard.
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He now thinks that he can cut a deal with a dictator who has called him a "mentally deranged US dotard".
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The ensuing war of words, in which Kim called Trump "a mentally deranged U.S. dotard," has some foreign policy experts pessimistic.
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North Korea's Kim slammed Trump from afar as a "mentally deranged US dotard," sending hundreds of thousands running to their dictionaries.
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" Mr. Kim has said he cherishes the "friendly relationship and trust" forged with Mr. Trump, whom he once called a "dotard.
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" Kim, in turn, has defied the global community's calls to halt his tests, and has referred to Trump as a "dotard.
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On Google's Ngram Viewer, which tracks the popularity of words over time, "dotard" was a word that peaked in the 18th century.
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In an unprecedented direct statement on Friday, Kim described Trump as a "mentally deranged U.S. dotard" whom he would tame with fire.
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" He added: "I suspect he'd be a superb foil for Trump and could flummox the dictatorial dotard into incoherence and open bigotry.
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As it turns out, Kim didn't actually say the word "dotard"— it's the translation provided by the North Korean Central News Agency.
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The agency interpreted Kim's mention of "neukdari" — which translates literally as "old lunatic" — to mean "dotard" in English, according to the Independent.
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" Kim Yong Chol then indicated ― as North Korean officials also said last week ― they're willing to once again call Trump a "dotard.
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Kim Jong Un just released a statement calling Trump a "mentally deranged U.S. dotard" who will "pay dearly" for his U.N. speech pic.twitter.
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North Korea first called the president a "dotard" in 2017 and it quickly went viral, mostly because people weren't sure what it meant.
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READ: North Korea might start calling Trump 'dotard' again Incredibly, the Camp Casey incident isn't the only recent North Korea-related false alarm.
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Kim, in response, vowed to "surely and definitely tame the mentally deranged US dotard with fire" for openly talking about destroying North Korea.
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"I will surely and definitely tame the mentally deranged U.S. dotard with fire," Kim said in the rare direct statement, referring to Trump.
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He responded to a release from North Korean leader Kim Jong Un that called him a "dotard" with a personal insult of his own.
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"By making people look up the word #dotard, Kim Jong Un has done more for American education than Betsy DeVos," wrote one user, @TurmUp_TheTweet.
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" Kim vowed to make Trump "pay dearly for his speech … face results beyond his expectation [and] tame the mentally deranged U.S. dotard with fire.
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Kim's retort in North Korean media, telling Trump he is an "old lunatic" and a "dotard," revealed a dangerous flash of his volcanic temper.
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Kim Jong Un calls Trump a dotard, Trump retaliates with something insane, and everyone VERY REASONABLY panics for a month about the nuclear holocaust.
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Both countries' leaders insulted each other, with Kim Jong Un calling Mr Trump a "dotard" and Mr Trump describing Mr Kim as a "sick puppy".
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Gary Chryst, the most admired artist of the Joffrey Ballet of yore appearing with Ballet Theater as a guest, makes Dodon a rivetingly doting dotard.
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He's faced some retaliation in his unrelenting war of words, from getting called a "dotard" by Kim Jong-un to a "motherfucker" by Spike Lee.
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North Korean verbal barrages are a staple of its external propaganda — note its labeling of Trump as a "dotard" at the height of tensions last year.
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He called Mr. Trump a "mentally deranged U.S. dotard" in September after the president threatened to "totally destroy" North Korea if it endangered the United States.
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" Jong Un allegedly responded with a written statement, in which he called Trump a "mentally deranged US dotard" and said that "a frightened dog barks louder.
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North Korea has remained defiant, calling Mr. Trump a "dotard" again on Saturday and insisting that it will never give up its pursuit of nuclear weapons.
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Kim responded to Trump's debut speech at the U.N. calling him a "mentally deranged dotard," and warning that the U.S. would "pay dearly" for Trump's threats.
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If we could start with North Korea, the obvious improvement in relations because you have Kim Jong-un used to say that President Trump was a dotard.
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" Three days later, Kim fired back with sharply personal language of his own, claiming he would "surely and definitely tame the mentally deranged US dotard with fire.
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I told him that the big shots in Washington were terrified about the childish, bellicose tit-for-tat tweeting battle between the Dotard and Little Rocket Man.
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Google searches for "dotard" quickly escalated after Kim used the arcane reference, with Merriam-Webster reporting searches "are as high as a kite" on its dictionary website.
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With Trump firing off insulting nicknames and North Korea putting "dotard" back on the table, it would seem a brief love affair is officially on the rocks.
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Kim hit back with a rare personal statement, in which he called Trump a "mentally deranged dotard" and threatened "results beyond his expectation" by way of retribution.
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"A favorite theme of the medieval fabliau is the May-December tale of the dotard husband cuckolded by his young wife," began one book review in 1986.
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There were more than 100,000 mentions of the hashtag #dotard and 189,000 mentions of the word on Twitter on Friday, according to international social media analytics firm Talkwalker.
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Describing Trump as a "mentally deranged U.S. dotard," and referring to the U.S. president's speech as "unprecedented rude nonsense," Kim reiterated his unwillingness to abandon Pyongyang's nuclear arsenal.
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" And on November 11, North Korea's Foreign Ministry responded: "The reckless remarks by a dotard like Trump can never frighten us or put a stop to our advance.
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Image 2 of 2 SINGAPORE – After a sudden and welcome turn to diplomacy following last year&aposs threats, insults and fears of war — remember "fire and fury" and "dotard"?
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Kim took the bait and responded directly to Trump, firing off his own verbal barrage calling Trump a "mentally deranged US Dotard," adding that "a frightened dog barks louder".
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"Action is the best option in treating the dotard who, hard of hearing, is uttering only what he wants to say," was the full translation given of Kim's quote.
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Trump dusted off his "Rocket Man" nickname for the dictator at the NATO summit last week, which led North Korea to threaten to revive their "dotard" insult on Thursday.
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After U.S. President Donald Trump referred to Kim Jong-un "Rocket Man" and the North Korean leader call Trump a "dotard," who would have thought they would end up meeting?
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After North Korea issued a statement Saturday calling him a "dotard," one of several blistering verbal salvos tossed at Trump during his trip, the US leader hit back on Twitter.
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" North Korea responded to Trump's speech at the U.N. with a rare video statement from leader Kim Jong Un, who called Trump a "frightened dog" and a "mentally deranged dotard.
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While the term dotard is not familiar to most English speakers today, as evidenced by the flurry of people searching for definitions of it, it has a prestigious literary history.
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Kim had called Trump a "mentally deranged U.S. dotard" a day earlier after Trump said Washington would "totally destroy" North Korea if it threatened the United States or its allies.
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READ: North Korea might start calling Trump 'dotard' again Lewis told NBC that numerous pieces of evidence ― most recently the new construction ― suggest North Korea is improving its missile capabilities.
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The obscurity of "dotard" made it perfect fodder for social media, generating quips about the otherwise unfunny subjects of ballistic missiles, nuclear tests and escalating tensions on the Korean Peninsula.
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Kim Jong Un responded to Trump's threats to "totally destroy North Korea" by calling the U.S. president a "frightened dog" and a "dotard" (a medieval term for a senile, old person).
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" In response, Mr. Kim said he would deploy the "highest level of hard-line countermeasure in history" against the United States, and described Mr. Trump as a "mentally deranged U.S. dotard.
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In an unprecedented personal statement on Friday, Mr. Kim called Mr. Trump a "mentally deranged U.S. dotard" and Mr. Ri raised the prospect of exploding a hydrogen bomb over the Pacific.
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A North Korean official said Thursday that they would return fire with their own harsh language ― like dotard, as in someone old and mentally declining ― if Trump didn't cut it out.
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Mr. Trump derided Mr. Kim as a "madman" on Friday, hours after the North Korean called him a "mentally deranged U.S. dotard," the sort of name-calling exchange most presidents have avoided.
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In an escalation of rhetoric, North Korea once again called Trump a "dotard," adding that U.S. actions it considers "foolish" have allowed it to make a "definite decision" on its next steps.
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North Korea spent most of last year calling U.S. President Donald Trump names such as a "mentally deranged U.S. dotard" and "loser", and has begun to complain again about Washington's insistence on denuclearisation.
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Pictured this month riding a white horse through a snow-covered forest on the country's sacred Mount Paektu, he has in the past referred to U.S. President Donald Trump, 73, as a "dotard".
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Thursday blasted President Trump as a "mentally deranged U.S. dotard," warning he would "pay dearly" for his threats at the United Nations to destroy North Korea.
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North Korean officials revived the insult "dotard" against President Donald Trump in response to his insults about North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and threats to take military action against the Hermit Kingdom.
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A senior member of the North Korean government again described Trump as a "dotard" after Trump called Kim "Rocket Man," a nickname he coined during the standoff between Pyongyang and Washington in 2017.
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" It was a striking about-face from less than a year ago, when Trump was threatening "fire and fury" against Kim, who in turn scorned the American president as a "mentally deranged U.S. dotard.
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" Mr. Kim has sometimes responded to the taunts, at one point calling Mr. Trump a "mentally deranged U.S. dotard" and "a rogue and a gangster fond of playing with fire, rather than a politician.
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Kim on Thursday unleashed a litany of insults of his own, naming Trump a "mentally deranged US dotard," an obscure insult that had Americans scrambling to Google what, exactly, their leader had been accused of.
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Mr. Kim has called Mr. Trump a "mentally deranged dotard" and has said that his country was ready to fight a nuclear war that would devastate the "entire" South Korea, the North's state media said.
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While the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, attacked Mr. Trump from afar — calling him a "dotard" in a statement on North Korean national television — others used their platforms at the United Nations to respond.
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Of course, any Strangelovian thing could happen when Little Rocket Man and the Dotard actually get together, given that both Dear Leaders live in bizarro fantasy worlds with fawning courtiers, where lying and cheating abounds.
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North Korean officials have repeatedly threatened to resume the use of the "dotard" epithet in recent weeks after Trump resumed his use of the nickname "Rocket Man" for Kim during a NATO summit in London.
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in turn called Trump a "mentally deranged dotard," and the country's foreign minister threatened to drop a hydrogen bomb in the Pacific Ocean in response to Trump's U.N. address.
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In the run-up to the deadline, North Korea has hurled insults at Trump, calling him a "dotard" and saying "foolish" U.S. actions have already helped it make a "definite decision" on its next steps.
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Mr Kim responded with an unusual personal statement, calling Mr Trump a "mentally deranged US dotard", who had convinced him that his course of seeking nukes is "correct" and needs to be followed "to the last".
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Google searches for the word were through the roof on Friday morning — and Merriam-Webster, the social-media-savvy dictionary, also tweeted that searches for the word had skyrocketed. D-O-T-A-R-D. Dotard.
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" The speech drew audible gasps from the diplomats and national security officials in the General Assembly hall, as well as an angry response from Mr. Kim himself, who called Mr. Trump a "mentally deranged U.S. dotard.
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In a statement lashing out at Trump on Saturday, North Korea also referred to him as a "dotard," a word meaning a very old person, and one the reclusive nation has used on him in the past.
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Amid a war of words between Kim, who has called Trump a "mentally deranged dotard," and Trump, who referred to Kim as "little rocket man," many U.S. lawmakers have been pushing for non-military solutions to the crisis.
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Responding to U.S. President Donald Trump's bellicose warning to Pyongyang in his first speech to the United Nations on Tuesday, Kim on Friday called Trump a "dotard" - at least in a translation by the state news agency KCNA.
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Kim called President TrumpDonald John TrumpGOP senators balk at lengthy impeachment trial Warren goes local in race to build 2020 movement 2020 Democrats make play for veterans' votes MORE a "mentally deranged U.S. dotard," in a 2017 statement.
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"If any language and expressions stoking the atmosphere of confrontation are used once again on purpose at a crucial moment as now, that must really be diagnosed as the relapse of the dotage of a dotard," she concluded.
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The exchange is effectively a derivative sequel to the 2017 spat between Trump and Kim, where the two launched a war of words ― chiefly "Rocket Man" and "dotard" ― as nuclear negotiations between the U.S. and North Korea floundered.
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"If any language and expressions stoking the atmosphere of confrontation are used once again on purpose at a crucial moment as now, that must really be diagnosed as the relapse of the dotage of a dotard," she concluded.
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If big decisions are made this week — meaning: if Mr. Kim and Mr. Trump are left alone in a room — the North Koreans may well game the "dotard," as the North Korean ruler has called the American president.
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After a North Korean statement insulted Trump by calling him a "dotard," the US President tweeted that he would "NEVER" call the North Korean leader "short and fat," while also saying that "maybe someday" he would be Kim's friend.
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And grasping it, Kim Jong Un, the leader of the world's most repressive dictatorship, his Mao suit, hairstyle and grievances imported directly from the 1950s, who just nine months before had promised to "tame the mentally deranged US dotard with fire".
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During tensions created by a provocative run in missile tests in 2017, Kim called Trump a "mentally deranged U.S. dotard" after he said that the United States would "totally destroy North Korea" if forced to defend itself or its allies.
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North Korea 1st Vice Foreign Minister Choe Son Hu said Thursday that her office could not "contain its displeasure" over the president's comments, and added that if he continues, Trump "will again show the senility of a dotard," USA Today reported.
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Kim's softer tone was a far cry from the kind of fiery rhetoric he exchanged with Trump last year when the U.S. president called Kim "Little Rocket Man" and the North Korean leader described Trump as a "dotard," or senile old man.
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This is not entirely new—North Korea has been vowing to immolate the South for decades—but tensions rose alarmingly this year, as President Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un traded taunts, calling each other "rocket man" and "mentally deranged US dotard".
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PYONGYANG, North Korea – North Koreans are getting a new look at U.S. President Donald Trump now that his summit with leader Kim Jong Un is over and it&aposs a far cry from the "dotard" label their government slapped on him last year.
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In an instant, the escalating tensions between Trump and Kim over the past year had evaporated, insults ("little rocket man") and counter-insults ("mentally deranged dotard") were forgotten, and the United States and North Korea were on a pell-mell track to diplomacy.
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He has responded to the president's threats with more of his own, castigating Mr. Trump as a "mentally deranged U.S. dotard" and suggesting through his foreign minister that he might order the first atmospheric nuclear test the world has seen in 37 years.
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Kim Jong Un, who once called the 71-year-old American president a "dotard," and warned he could destroy a major US city of his choice at the touch of a button, will arrive in Singapore with nothing to lose and everything to gain.
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Since Singapore, Trump has declared he and Kim "fell in love" after exchanging letters, a far cry from when Trump in late 2017 called Kim "Little Rocket Man" and a "sick puppy" and Kim said Trump was a "dotard" - meaning a senile old person.
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"As [Trump] is such a heedless and erratic old man, the time when we cannot but call him a 'dotard' again may come," he said, referencing an insult the nation applied to Trump in September 2017 amid a war of words between the two leaders.
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Less than a year ago, Trump was threatening to rain down "fire and fury like the world has never seen" on North Korea and Kim was calling Trump a "mentally deranged US dotard" and "carefully examining" plans for a missile strike on US military bases in Guam.
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Less than a year ago, Trump was threatening to rain down "fire and fury like the world has never seen" on North Korea, and Kim was calling Trump a "mentally deranged US dotard" and "carefully examining" plans for a missile strike on US military bases in Guam.
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At the UN General Assembly on September 0003th President Donald Trump threatened to "totally destroy North Korea", a country of 25m, along with "Rocket Man"—its leader, Kim Jong Un. Mr Kim retorted that he would "surely and definitely tame the mentally deranged US dotard with fire".
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Trump revived his "Rocket Man" moniker for Kim, and North Korean state media referred to the US President as a "dotard" -- an archaic insult for a senile old person that Pyongyang first used to insult Trump after his address at the UN General Assembly in 2017.
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"As he is such a heedless and erratic old man, the time when we cannot but call him a 'dotard' again may come," Kim Yong-chol said, referring to personal insults and threats of nuclear war that Kim Jong-un and Mr. Trump exchanged two years ago.
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North Korea has matched Mr. Trump's tough talk by calling the American leader a "mentally deranged dotard" and threatening to launch missiles around Guam, an American territory in the Western Pacific, and shoot down long-range bombers taking off from the island for exercises near Korea.
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"If any language and expressions stoking the atmosphere of confrontation are used once again on purpose at a crucial moment as now, that must really be diagnosed as the relapse of the dotage of a dotard," warned Choe Son Hui, North Korea's vice foreign minister, via state media.
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There's a good chance that "Little Rocket Man" (as Trump calls Kim) and the "mentally deranged U.S. dotard" (Kim's rejoinder) will do likewise after realizing they don't have many shared interests after all, and that the Korean peninsula will give the 21st century its versions of the Berlin and Cuban crises.
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Merriam-Webster responded with a tweet, defining dotard as "a person in his or her dotage," which is "a state or period of senile decay marked by decline of mental poise and alertness," which quickly became the top trending post on Twitter on Friday, with more than 7,400 retweets and 13,000 likes.
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Trump called the North Korean leader a "madman" on Friday, a day after Kim dubbed him a "mentally deranged U.S. dotard" who would face the "highest level of hard-line countermeasure in history" in retaliation for Trump saying the U.S. would "totally destroy" North Korea if it threatened the U.S. or its allies.
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Small groups of anti-American activists have since taken to the streets in Seoul, shouting "No Trump, No War!" and calling him a "dotard," a derogatory word for an old person that North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-un, used to condemn Mr. Trump after he threatened to "totally destroy" the North in September.
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At a moment when name-calling, taunts and criticism often seem the dominant themes in public discourse — when the sports world and the administration in Washington are at social media war, and "dotard" has entered the daily chat — generosity and sensitivity to the individual can seem like a rare and surprising thing.
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"If any language and expressions stoking the atmosphere of confrontation are used once again on purpose at a crucial moment as now, that must really be diagnosed as the relapse of the dotage of a dotard," Choe Son Hui, first vice-minister of Foreign Affairs, said in a statement carried by KCNA.
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Trump called North Korean leader Kim Jong Un a "madman" on Friday, a day after Kim dubbed him a "mentally deranged U.S. dotard" who would face the "highest level of hard-line countermeasure in history" in retaliation for Trump saying the U.S. would "totally destroy" North Korea if it threatened the United States or its allies.
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President Donald Trump called North Korean leader Kim Jong Un a "madman" on Friday, a day after Kim dubbed him a "mentally deranged U.S. dotard" who would face the "highest level of hard-line countermeasure in history" in retaliation for Trump saying the U.S. would "totally destroy" North Korea if it threatened the United States or its allies.
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Calling the North Korea leader "Rocket Man" at the UN and threatening to destroy his country if it endangers the US, along with the slapping of new penalties on the already heavily sanctioned nation, was met with a threat from the North Koreans to test a hydrogen bomb over the Pacific Ocean and a riposte that Trump is a dotard.
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Those remarks reflect North Korean leader Kim Jong UnKim Jong UnBolton rips Trump administration's move to block UN meeting on North Korea South Korea: North tested rocket engine The Hill's Morning Report - Sponsored by AdvaMed - Democrats to release articles of impeachment today MORE's comments from September 2017 when he said he would "tame the mentally deranged U.S. dotard," referring to Trump.
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Rhetoric is already heating back up, with North Korea reviving its "dotard" insult of President TrumpDonald John TrumpRepublican group targets Graham in ad calling for fair Senate trial Democratic presidential candidates react to Trump impeachment: 'No one is above the law' Trump attacks Schumer at fiery rally in Michigan MORE and saying "foolish" U.S. actions have already helped it make a "definite decision" on its next steps.
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