I thought I had a pretty deep vocabulary, but I have to hand it to the person that writes the statements that allegedly come from North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un for pulling up a word to describe President Donald Trump that I had never heard of before: dotard. For those who also are unfamiliar with the term, dotard means an old person suffering from senility. Obviously not a term of endearment–and I fully expect the AARP and the Alzheimers Association to immediately issue press releases encouraging Americans not to use the term–as they consider it to be derogatory.
This insult of the President follows Trump taking to calling Jong Un “Rocket Man” for his launching of missiles that are scaring the heck out of South Korea and Japan. That followed the President promising to rain destruction down upon North Korea if they didn’t end their missile program and give up their nuclear weapons–which Jong Un had promised to fire into the US if new sanctions were placed on the country by the United Nations.
I expect that someday historians are going to look back at this time and refer to it as the “Era of Playground Diplomacy”. When adults talking to each other behind closed doors with the common goal of preserving the peace was replaced by two immature man-childs traded insults and passive-aggressive actions in an attempt to prove who was the “bigger man”. The only thing we haven’t had so far is President Trump triple dog daring Kim Jong Un to stick his tongue on a cold flagpole.
While this would normally strike me as funny, the fact that both of these idiots have control of nuclear weapons actually makes this terrifying. Granted, the North Korean nukes still can’t make it over here, but we should all feel bad if they were turned on Seoul or Tokyo. And there should be enough level-headed people in the White House (now that Steve Bannon is out) to keep President Trump from switching from “late night tweeting” to “late night punching in the nuclear codes”.
In the meantime, we may have to rely on the fact that both of these guys are all talk and no action. Nobody is going to make the first move because deep down they are both cowards. In the meantime, we can just wait until they graduate to such classic insults as “fart-sniffer” and “doody head”.
