Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said Tuesday it was “risky” for President Trump to refer to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un as “Rocket Man” in his Tuesday morning speech to the United Nations.
“If I were giving the president advice, I would have said, ‘avoid using ‘Rocket Man,'” Schumer told reporters Tuesday. “We know the leader of North Korea is erratic to put it kindly. That kind of language is risky.”
Trump made the remark in his inaugural speech before the U.N., saying that the North Korean leader is on a “suicide mission” before adding that the U.S. will have “no choice but to totally destroy North Korea” if it has to defend itself or its allies.
This was the second time the president has quoted the famed Elton John song and used the term to mock the North Korean dictator. He first did so in a Sunday tweet after a phone conversation with South Korean President Moon Jae-in.
