President Donald Trump
called Kim Jong Un “rocket man” earlier this week, and now the North Korean
dictator has returned fire.
Kim gave Trump a
nickname of his own, and it’s one that sent Americans scrambling for a
dictionary.
“I will surely and
definitely tame the mentally deranged dotard with fire,” Kim said in a
statement released by the North Korean government Thursday.
While the statement was
full of choice words for Trump, calling him “unfit,” “rogue” and “gangster”; it was the word “dotard,” used twice, that seemed to catch everyone’s
attention.
According to
Merriam-Webster, a “dotard” is a “person in his or her dotage,” with “dotage”
further defined as “a state or period of senile decay marked by decline of
mental poise and alertness.”
Freelance journalist
Jihye Lee said the original statement in Korean used a term better translated
as “old beast lunatic,” but it became “dotard” in the English version released
by North Korea.
The statement caused
the word “dotard” to trend on Twitter.
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