'Dotard' Trends on Twitter After Kim Insults Trump

Kim Jong Un delivered several insults to President Trump in a rare statement issued in his own name early Friday—including one that a lot of people had to look up. "I will surely and definitely tame the mentally deranged US dotard with fire," Kim said, according to North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency. 

The word "dotard"—defined by Oxford Dictionaries as "an old person, especially one who has become weak or senile"—was soon trending on Twitter and online searches for the definition spiked, Mediaite reports. Kim also said: "Action is the best option in treating the dotard who, hard of hearing, is uttering only what he wants to say."

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