The "You're Nothing But A... A...Neukdari!" Story

Preface: Seems that since I wrote this story two days ago, more name calling and mudslinging has been exchanged between the leaders of North Korea and our nation.  North Korean foreign minister Ri Yong Ho has called our president "President Evil" and said he is someone who has turned the White House into a noisy marketplace full of crackling sounds."  That followed President Trump's promise to "totally destroy" North Korea if we are attacked.  The volley of insults between North Korea and Trump sounds as if I was back in elementary school once again.  The following story is anything but ordinary. 

It was an ordinary day.  Talking with my wife about our President and some of his childish rants and name calling he just can't keep himself from using.  It's as if he was still in elementary school and on the playground for recess and calling one of his classmates a bad name.  Well, seems the leader of North Korea, Kim Jong Un, must have gone to the same school and played on the same playground, since he also likes to spread garbage around as much as President Trump.  Being that I am a United States citizen, I am at times totally embarrassed by the childish name calling that goes on at the highest level of our government.  The guy who occupies the White House evidently has never grown up.  He loves to talk with his hands, make fun of others, act tough and spew garbage every time he talks.  It would be funny if it wasn't for the fact that he is saying these things to other leaders in the world who are just as childish as he.  

Donald Trump.  Age 71.

So, last week the President (you know how hard it is for me to type that word when referring to the guy) makes a speech in front of some of the most influential leaders in the world at the United Nations General Assembly and really gives it to Mr. Un.  Calls him "Rocket Man" on a "suicide mission".  Would be funny if it wasn't so scary, since the North Korean leader could be fast on the trigger with his nuclear bombs.  So Kim Jong Un turns around and calls Mr. Trump a mentally deranged U.S. dotard and vowed to "tame him" with fire.  

Kim Jong Un.  Age 33.

Wow!  A dotard.  I knew it must be something bad, but had never heard the word before.  So Trump turns around and threatens him with "fire and fury."  Sound like two kids on the playground to you?  Maybe both should have their mouths washed out with soap or made to sit in the corner with their faces to the wall.  Good punishment for two immature grade school adults.  So, I just had to find out what a dotard might be.  Seems that  a person in his or her dotage is a person in a "state or period of senile decay marked by decline of mental poise and alertness."  BINGO!!  Pronounced "dot-ard".  The word meant "imbecile" when it was first used in the 14th century and comes from the Middle English word "doten" which means "to dote" or to exhibit mental decline of or like that of old age.  BINGO!  Hasn't been used much here of late, but was used by Chaucer in "The Canterbury Tales" and by Shakespeare in "The Taming of the Shrew" and "King Lear".  The word was also used to insult President Andrew Jackson as well as Union Army Gen. George McClellan, but the word has recently fallen out of favor.  That was until Kim used it.  Dotard is actually a translation of the Korean word, 'neukdari,' which is a derogatory reference to an old person.  I guess you could say I'm old, but if you do so you would have to call Trump old also since I am only 2 years older than he.  So...what's next?  I guess as long as all they do is call each other names it can't hurt.  But, here's hoping it stops at that!  I guess I'd have to call them both a bunch of "crybabies."  Would I be a dotard also?  But, I don't want to be a dotard!!  It was another extraordinary day in the life of an ordinary guy.