mr. president, you need to sign it. most important thing. signing it because it costs nothing. reporter: wrot his signature while critics wrote jabs. one pretending to be secretary of state. ready to take the iq test when you are. this forgetting to sign has happened before. in march supposed to sign two orders on trade but in hurry to leave as reporters peppered him with questions. was that your intention mr. president? reporter: again vp pence reminded him. gestured to go get them, signed elsewhere. if there s no on camera signing, no documents for internet to doctor with nicknames like dotard and rocket man.
issues over the escalations and the not just the military muscle that s been shown, but also the words that have been back and forth between our president calling kim jong-un rocket man, kim jong-un referring to president trump as a dotard. how do you think that this can repair what seemed to be a closed road? well, i think what secretary tillerson and the administration is doing makes sense. direct contact. not negotiations, but basically both said saying to each other, hey, let s cool things down. i don t think the administration s policy is that bad. i mean, the more sanctions, the military exercises, and now this diplomacy, possibly saying to each other, hey, let s cool things down. but this is not helped by the president and kim jong-un just getting so personal.
increasingly personal between trump and kim jong-un. trump calling the north korean leader, sort of whacko, a madman and rocket man. kim jong-un has responded by calling trump, quote, a barking dog, mentally deranged and a dotard, meaning a lunatic, among other things. i want to bring in cnn s global affairs correspondent elise labott, also jim walsh, international security analyst and research associate at the securities study program at m.i.t., good to see both of you. good to see you, fred. elise, you first. this level of rhetoric, it is unprecedented and it only seems to be heightened every day. we don t know what to expect from north korea s representative later on today, but is it likely to be a continuation of kim jong-un s sentiments about donald trump? i think that they ll certainly be some tough words about president trump and the u.s. in general, fred. i mean, clearly it s getting very personal between these two leaders. and, you know, you can see from
ties with north korea. beijing says select fuel exports to the country will end and won t import north korean textiles. all of this in part of the new u.n. sanctions aimed at curbing north korea s nuclear program. meantime, the u.s. and north korea are swapping threats and insults over that same program. the leaders are, that is. u.s. president trump calling north leader kim jong-un a rocket man this week at the u.n. mr. kim responded by saying the president was a dotard. not to be outdone mr. trump called the north korean lead area little rocket man. here s more what was he had friday at a rally in alabama. this should have been handled eight years ago and four years ago, and honestly, and 15 years ago. and 20 years ago and 25 years ago. this shouldn t be handled now. but i m going to handle it. because we have to handle it.
radioactive standpoint is large areas of east asia, the western pacific, all the west to the west coast of the united states being blanketed with radiation. what they could potentially see is special work being done on the missile itself. they could see certain things being moved around that would potentially indicate that a warhead of a particular variety was being put inside the missile. kim matching trump on the battle of words. i will surely and definitely tame the mentally deranged u.s. dotard with fire. about t president trump responding kim jong un would is obviously a madman who doesn t mind starving or killing his people will be test like never before, all after a doomsday warning from