In wake of U.N. speech, Kim calls Trump a 'dotard.’ Trump fires back at ‘madman.’
YAHOO NEWS Gabby Kaufman 2 hours 17 minutes ago (Posted here 10:50 A.M., 22 Sept. 2017).
President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un have unleashed personal attacks on one another after the U.S. commander in chief’s speech at the United Nations.
“Kim Jong Un of North Korea, who is obviously a madman who doesn’t mind starving or killing his people, will be tested like never before!” Trump wrote Friday morning. (I certainly understand "propaganda", but with so much going on, Mr. Trump might be better off dealing with local problems and let the little maniac bury himself)?
Hours earlier, Kim delivered a barrage of epithets against Trump, calling “mentally deranged” and “a gangster fond of playing with fire,” according to the New York Times.
Kim also branded Trump a “dotard,” defined by Merriam-Webster as a “person in his or her dotage,” with dotage meaning “a state or period of senile decay marked by decline of mental poise and alertness.” (In the day, we use to say an older person was in his "dotage" while trying to be polite as Alzheimer's was not yet known and dementia/ senility were insulting).
The North Korean leader’s statement came after Trump’s fiery speech at the United Nations General Assembly earlier this week, when he warned that the U.S. may “have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea.”
“Rocket Man is on a suicide mission for himself and for his regime,” Trump said, employing a newly coined moniker for Kim to denounce the country’s nuclear and intercontinental ballistic missile programs.
In the past, Trump has praised Kim as a “pretty smart cookie” and said he’d be “honored” to meet with the North Korean leader “under the right circumstances.”
Kim has since launched a series of provocative tests, including one of what Pyongyang claims was a hydrogen bomb capable of hitting the U.S. But experts question whether North Korea’s missiles have accurate guidance systems or the technology to reenter the atmosphere without burning up. (Still have to careful he does not set off those two satellites in space and cause that EMP).
He has nothing to lose and everything to gain by setting those bombs off. We will go down like a fat person hitting the couch.
A bit confused while reading the long letter (17 Sept 2017), the Daily Blat put in on the NDO bunch while their talking head went on and on about Fairmont reactivating its Human Rights Commission? Guess it must be because it is a "Cause Celebre" for our very own Ms. Myer? The counter article in the Daily Blat on the 14th only mentioned the reactivation adding of Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation to the list of discriminated classes. Most important to me was Fairmont left the Veterans out of the mix. Hopefully, they saw it for what it was; a cheap tawdry trick to drag in folks who had little or no connections?
I spent years in the Military and while spit on, called baby killer and had real coke and beer bottles thrown at me, I was never "discriminated" against in the contiguous 48. Sometimes I/We got the fisheye in a restaurant/ bar, but got served and service was minimally correct. I was told by a Japanese woman in the Ala Moana Shopping Center in Honolulu in 1970 to go back where I came from as I was not wanted there. Being a "Haole" was not endearing there. And a Japanese SFC asked me and another SP5 to come to his house for dinner. But something did not set right and we kept saying 'NO'. Finally the guy said "you are making a big mistake, I don't invite many Haole's to my home". And no more invites.
And in 1978 in Korea a friend and I were denied service in a Korean Bar because we were GIs and White. But Korea is as Racist as Japan so we knew it would happen sooner or later. My friend finally cajoled a brewski from the barkeep. We drank it, he harassed a Korean woman into a dance and we left. I told him I didn't buy into harassing the woman; he said he wasn't, just being insistent? An interesting choice of words I thought than and still do.
Saw Mr. Joyce doing the Shoe Leather Taxi this A.M. when I was at the Circuit Court Building. He was going East to somewhere. Not friendly, but not rude either. Far better in either case than would happen on 29th St. "nuff said"