In an alternate reality, Trump gets the Nobel prize in literature for his tweets.
EDIT: Thinking about it, that would actually be a really classy and fnord-y move.
EDIT: Thinking about it, that would actually be a really classy and fnord-y move.
There are so many worthy recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize that are virtually unknown outside their specific non-profit niches — focus on those instead, and use the prize to highlight their work.
In general, that is what makes half of foreign policy reporting semi-useless, newspapers rarely report in which sense diplomats use the words. (Compare "fighting terrorist" as claimed by everybody, in general terrorist is just defined by threatening the interests of the speaker.)
[1] Likely meaning a mutual, synchronous and long term reduction of nuclear weapons towards a global zero goal. (Like the stated US nuclear policy of the Obama administration.)
[2] Meaning a prompt and unilateral abolishment of the NK nuclear program, as in Libya.
Still, judged by the outcome, it's kind of impressive. ;-)
He first called him Rocket Man, which was an ingenious way of telling him "OK, you have achieved what you wanted" and praising him in a way. He pulled Kim into the eye of the public in a non-humiliating way (the "short and fat" was a response to Kim calling him senile first).