Gorka: Trump’s ‘Rocket Man’ Rhetoric Helps Shove North Korea ‘Back in its Box’

Dr. Sebastian Gorka, former deputy assistant to President Donald Trump, said that the president’s decision to refer to North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un as “Rocket Man” in front of the United Nations General Assembly Tuesday “gets us halfway” to shoving the regime “back in its box” where it belongs, during an interview Tuesday on “The Laura Ingraham Show.”

Gorka, who recently joined the MAGA Coalition as its chief strategist, noted that he “used to have so much fun with people asking me when I was in the White House” about Trump’s unique Twitter habits and the nicknames he often introduced for political rivals and critics. Prior to his U.N. General Assembly address, Trump had already test-driven the “Rocket Man” monicker for Kim on Twitter, writing on Sunday, “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!”

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LifeZette Editor-in-Chief Laura Ingraham asked Gorka why Trump uses such nicknames in both written and verbal forms. he replied, “because they work, Laura.” Whenever media personnel would ask him about Trump’s Twitter usage and the nicknames, the former deputy assistant said he’d reply, “Really?”

“I am not going to give a man strategic communications advice based upon the tool that was in large part responsible for him completely short-circuiting the mainstream fake news industrial complex,” Gorka said. “You know, dictators don’t like to have jokes made at their expense. It is one of the most powerful things out there.”

“And you know, in North Korea, that did not go down well,” he added. “And that’s good because this is a regime that needs to be put back in its box. And using language like ‘Rocket Man’ gets us halfway there.”

During his speech at the U.N. General Assembly, Trump said, “But if it is forced to defend itself or its allies, we will have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea,” adding that “Rocket Man is on a suicide mission for himself and for his regime.”

In response to Trump’s speech, Ingraham noted that the global elites complained that Trump was threatening nuclear war and that he didn’t condemn Russia for its election interference , among other complaints. In addition, Trump’s speech was met with a relatively “tepid” response and little applause, she said.

Gorka praised Trump’s speech, saying that “we’re getting him back on track” by shaking up the global elites.

“Think about where he is — he is in the belly of the beast in this organization that was supposed to provide global peace and security since 1945 and has failed to do so repeatedly,” he said. “And his message was about — I mean, there are so many great things.”

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“He actually used the phrase ‘radical Islamic terrorism.’ He talked about the embarrassment that is the JCPOA Iran Deal. He talked about the socialism that’s still alive in places like Venezuela,” Gorka said. “But the greatest thing of all is … we’ve sent a very clear message — the larger MAGA team — about sovereignty.”

“If you don’t understand the concept of the wall, of immigration reform, of defeating ISIS, of fair trade — not just free trade — all of these things are underpinned by one thing: national sovereignty as a good thing in the face of the global elites that want to remove our borders,” he continued. “So taking that message to the heart of the globalizing elites — that was a great day for everybody who voted for President Trump.”

Although questions have risen recently regarding the president’s commitment to his strict immigration enforcement campaign platform, Gorka noted that “whatever else came later,” Trump “began his presidential campaign on the issue of illegal migration and the wall.”

“So the idea that suddenly he’s going to … completely undermine the key pillar of his campaign is just absurd,” he said. “And people need to understand that the president will build the wall, and there will be no mass amnesty.”