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<p>After Trump&#39;s <a href="https://www.someecards.com/news/politics/donald-trump-united-nations-speech-audience-reactions/">angry United Nations speech</a> promising to &quot;totally destroy&quot; North Korea and their leader &quot;Rocket Man,&quot; Kim Jong-un responded in kind with his own childish insult. Only, the dictator&#39;s choice of words wasn&#39;t childish. It was pretty advanced vocabulary.</p><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">📈 Kim Jong Un calls Trump a mentally deranged U.S. dotard. Searches for &#39;dotard&#39; are high as a kite. <a href="https://t.co/HztPoLSjXi">https://t.co/HztPoLSjXi</a></p>&mdash; Merriam-Webster (@MerriamWebster) <a href="https://twitter.com/MerriamWebster/status/911003233828659201?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 21, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>&quot;Dotard,&quot; defined Merriam-Webster, &quot;a person in his or her dotage.&quot; And, all together now, America clicked onto the next page&mdash;</p><p>&quot;Dotage... a state of senile decay marked by decline of mental poise and alertness.&quot;</p><p>That made a lot of people perk up.</p><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Everyone on Twitter<br><br>- OMG HE CALLED TRUMP A <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/dotard?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#dotard</a><br><br>- Is that a word?<br><br>- Wait...is that a real word?<br><br>- *looks up word*<br><br>- HE IS A DOTARD!</p>&mdash; Tony Posnanski (@tonyposnanski) <a href="https://twitter.com/tonyposnanski/status/911019287682437120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 22, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">- i’m afraid that is what ‘dotard’ means sir.<br>- oh if this guy wants a war of words he’s making a bigly mistake... <a href="https://t.co/zdCEjoEHzG">pic.twitter.com/zdCEjoEHzG</a></p>&mdash; F0REST TRUMP (@F0REST_TRUMP) <a href="https://twitter.com/F0REST_TRUMP/status/911160044452016128?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 22, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Kim Jong-un called Trump a &quot;dotard.&quot; How harsh is that burn?<a href="https://t.co/3doikPTrQR">https://t.co/3doikPTrQR</a></p>&mdash; The New York Times (@nytimes) <a href="https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/911171990249201664?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 22, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>One of the people apparently googling the insult was the president, who took to Twitter on Friday morning to fire back at the North Korean &quot;madman.&quot;</p><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Kim Jong Un of North Korea, who is obviously a madman who doesn&#39;t mind starving or killing his people, will be tested like never before!</p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/911175246853664768?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 22, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>&quot;Kim Jong Un of North Korea,&quot; wrote Trump, &quot;who is obviously a madman who doesn&#39;t mind starving or killing his people, will be tested like never before!&quot;</p><p>It&#39;s hard to argue with the first part of that statement. The second puts the entire world on edge.</p><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The so-called &quot;President&quot; of the United States just got out-Englished by a guy raised in a Korean-speaking totalitarian regime.<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/dotard?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#dotard</a></p>&mdash; Charlotte Clymer 🏳️‍🌈 (@cmclymer) <a href="https://twitter.com/cmclymer/status/911020044011937793?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 22, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>The war of words is fun entertainment until it isn&#39;t, so for now, let&#39;s just pretend it&#39;s just hilarious.</p><p><sec-poll id="15"></sec-poll></p><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

Trump tweeted his response after Kim Jong-un called him a 'dotard.' He must have googled it.

Mitchell Friedman

After Trump&#39;s angry United Nations speech promising to &quot;totally destroy&quot; North Korea and their leader &quot;Rocket Man,&quot; Kim Jong-un responded in kind with his own childish insult. Only, the dictator&#39;s choice of words wasn&#39;t childish. It was pretty advanced vocabulary.📈 Kim Jong Un calls Trump a mentally deranged U.S. dotard. Searches for &#39;dotard&#39; are high as a kite. https://t.co/HztPoLSjXi&mdash; Merriam-Webster (@MerriamWebster) September 21, 2017 &quot;Dotard,&quot; defined Merriam-Webster, &quot;a person in his or her dotage.&quot; And, all together now, America clicked onto the next page&mdash;&quot;Dotage... a state of senile decay marked by decline of mental poise and alertness.&quot;That made a lot of people perk up.Everyone on Twitter- OMG HE CALLED TRUMP A #dotard- Is that a word?- Wait...is that a real word?- *looks up word*- HE IS A DOTARD!&mdash; Tony Posnanski (@tonyposnanski) September 22, 2017 - i’m afraid that is what ‘dotard’ means sir.- oh if this guy wants a war of words he’s making a bigly mistake... pic.twitter.com/zdCEjoEHzG&mdash; F0REST TRUMP (@F0REST_TRUMP) September 22, 2017 Kim Jong-un called Trump a &quot;dotard.&quot; How harsh is that burn?https://t.co/3doikPTrQR&mdash; The New York Times (@nytimes) September 22, 2017 One of the people apparently googling the insult was the president, who took to Twitter on Friday morning to fire back at the North Korean &quot;madman.&quot;Kim Jong Un of North Korea, who is obviously a madman who doesn&#39;t mind starving or killing his people, will be tested like never before!&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 22, 2017 &quot;Kim Jong Un of North Korea,&quot; wrote Trump, &quot;who is obviously a madman who doesn&#39;t mind starving or killing his people, will be tested like never before!&quot;It&#39;s hard to argue with the first part of that statement. The second puts the entire world on edge.The so-called &quot;President&quot; of the United States just got out-Englished by a guy raised in a Korean-speaking totalitarian regime.#dotard&mdash; Charlotte Clymer 🏳️‍🌈 (@cmclymer) September 22, 2017 The war of words is fun entertainment until it isn&#39;t, so for now, let&#39;s just pretend it&#39;s just hilarious.

Trump woke up and seemed to tweet his response to Kim Jong-un's "dotard" insult.