‘Rocket Man’ aside, Trump’s UN speech marks another kind of shift

Published September 20, 2017 1:31pm ET



No sooner had President Trump finished his United Nations speech on Tuesday than the media had already latched onto its most colorful phrases. Naturally, when a U.S. president refers to Kim Jong Un as “Rocket Man” and threatens to “totally destroy North Korea” if it attacks, that’s the part of the speech that everyone is going to dwell on.

In fact, it would surprise us if this doesn’t become Trump’s “Rocket Man” speech in future history texts.

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