Rocket Man and Dotard go bonkers in Toontown - By Kathleen Parker
By Kathleen Parker Opinion writer September 26 at 7:53 PM
Pity the Pacific, a portion of which faces ultimate destruction should “Rocket Man” follow through on his reported threat to test a hydrogen bomb in the ocean in response to recent anti-North Korea comments from President “Dotard.”
So it goes in Toontown, where two of the planet’s most unstable state actors call each other names and spin the roulette wheel toward nukes and annihilation.
Within days of President Trump’s address to the U.N. General Assembly last week, in which he threatened to “totally destroy North Korea” and referred to Kim Jong Un as “Rocket Man,” tensions between the two nations escalated from a game of blind man’s bluff to a drag race of nuclear chicken.
“I will surely and definitely tame the mentally deranged U.S. dotard with fire,” proclaimed Kim, who apparently relied upon a translation tool that uses archaic English vocabulary. Millions wondered, “Dotard?”
Racing to our dictionaries, we learned that the word means, more or less, an old person of diminished mental capacity. Not recently in use but popular as far back as the 14th century when Chaucer used it in “The Canterbury Tales,” it’s a derivative of “dotage” and not of the word you (and I) were thinking.
I confess to being hooked on Dotard as a nickname for Trump, which seems wonderfully apt, though admittedly more so before I knew the word’s meaning. It seems, too, that I’ve seen this movie before, a comedy in which an insane dictator named Rocket Man fires a missile at President Dotard’s power tower. Or perhaps it was a comic-book series written by “Dilbert” creator Scott Adams, who lately has become an Internet sensation as a wry devil’s advocate favoring Trump.
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