Trump taunts Kim over his weight and height

Donald Trump took his verbal jousting with Kim Jong-un to a new level yesterday, taunting the North Korean leader over his height and weight, before musing over the idea of them eventually becoming friends.

While they have never met, Trump and Kim have form when it comes to name-calling, with the US president a more-than-willing match for the highly rhetorical flourishes deployed by his adversary in Pyongyang.

Trump has referred to Kim as a “madman” and “Rocket Man” while the 33-year-old responded by calling the 71-year-old a “mentally deranged dotard”.

Yesterday Trump got down to basics, with a sarcastic tweet prompted by recent descriptions of him in the North’s state media as a “lunatic old man”.