Watch H.R. McMaster React to President Trump’s Tweet Calling Kim Jong Un ‘Rocket Man’

National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster appeared on two Sunday shows today, and he was asked in both about President Trump‘s tweet referring to Kim Jong Un as “Rocket Man.”

I spoke with President Moon of South Korea last night. Asked him how Rocket Man is doing. Long gas lines forming in North Korea. Too bad!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 17, 2017

On Fox News Sunday, Chris Wallace mentioned the nickname and asked, “Have you heard that from the President before or is that a new one?”

“That’s a new one, I think, maybe for the President,” McMaster responded, “but it reminds me of a cover of The Economist a few years ago portraying him as rocket man.”

He added, more seriously, that we shouldn’t “laugh too much about” this because “they do represent a great threat to everyone.”

And McMaster was also asked on ABC’s This Week as well. George Stephanopoulos read the tweet and asked, “I assume Rocket Man is Kim Jong Un?”

“It appears to be so,” McMaster said. “That is where the rockets and missiles are coming from.”

You can watch both videos above (the ABC one starts at the 8:05 mark), via Fox and ABC.

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