Kim’s ‘dotard’ insult spurs laughs, highlights words’ power

Seldom do fire-and-brimstone threats offer laughs or communication lessons.
North Korea’s bellicose leader, Kim Jong Un, offered both yesterday when he
threatened, in a statement directed at President Donald Trump, “I will
surely and definitely tame the deranged U.S. dotard with fire.”
Yet it was the word “dotard,” that caught fire, in the form of a trending
#DotardTrump hashtag and a flurry of internet users educating themselves on the burn
heard ’round