President Trump seems to have a new nickname for North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. In a series of Sunday morning Twitter musings that also included an estimate of his Twitter worth, and a video edited to make it look like he was hitting Hillary Clinton with a golf ball, Trump referred to Kim as "Rocket Man".
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