Thought they'd share for others they that might not know the definition either?

At first I was a bit taken aback and was contemplating a slightly snarky reply. When I thought about it though I realized that I hadn't heard/seen the word used in many years so maybe it's become archaic and therefore unknown to some in younger generations.

like what RWers cal us (i.e., libtard), and was upset that DU was using it.

If not, who chose that word??? My husband was surprised I did not know it and he did. He reads more historical fiction than I do.

I was familiar with doddering. I guess a dotard is doddering.

mid·tard

noun
a middle-aged person, especially one who has become a belligerent a-hole psychopathic tantrum freak entrapped in a name-calling global clusterf*ck with a casino-trained, draft-dodging republican dotard.

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What does it say when you lose the psycho freaky haircut contest to the other psycho with the freaky haircut......

a) Kim's amazing English vocabulary
or
b) wondered if a great translator was involved.

I had a lot of friends who thought it was a made up word. The instant I saw it I recognized how applicable it is...though only part of the picture of that odious man-child in the White House. Our press should have already been using it long ago.

since it's certainly not in common usage and I'm sure many senior citizens will whack you with their cane if you use such an insult

https://apnews.com/c2d919f8a5864d838e638d88ac5e8569/North-Korean-leader-Kim-called-Trump-a-what

North Korean leader Kim called Trump a what? A ‘dotard’

...
Dotard means a person in a feeble or childish state due to old age. It’s a translation of a Korean word, “neukdari,” which is a derogatory reference to an old person.

Sometimes, it is translated into the neutral “old people” or omitted, depending on the context or the importance of the statement. KCNA last used the word in February to describe supporters of ousted South Korean President Park Geun-hye, whom it also called “neukdari” and a “prostitute.” Before that, KCNA called Park’s conservative predecessor, Lee Myung-bak, “the traitor like a dotard.”

It may have simply resorted to a Korean-English dictionary. Putting “neukdari” into a popular online Korean-English dictionary in South Korea returns two English equivalents: an “aged (old) person” and a “dotard.”

Which I've last seen in Shakespeare's Coriolanus, Act V Scene 2:

"Then you should hate Rome, as he does. Can you, when you have push’d out your gates the very defender of them, and, in a violent popular ignorance, given your enemy your shield, think to front his revenges with the easy groans of old women, the virginal palms of your daughters, or with the palsied intercession of such a decay’d dotant as you seem to be? Can you think to blow out the intended fire your city is ready to flame in, with such weak breath as this? No, you are deceiv’d; therefore back to Rome, and prepare for your execution. You are condemn’d; our general has sworn you out of reprieve and pardon."
--Volscian guard to Menenius

I think it's a great word.

entered their dotage