Former NBA star Dennis Rodman is having quite the eventful week since returning from his trip to North Korea to visit Dictator Kim Jon Un and it is continuing, as reports have come out that he was thrown out of a hotel on Sunday in Manhattan for talking about the leader.
According to the New York Post, Rodman was yelling about his new friendship with the leader that he was tossed out of the Time Hotel in Midtown. Sources said that he was at the bar for a long period of time and repeatedly was speaking about his trip.
"He was at the bar at Serafina for three hours," one source told the Post.
The report continued: "He kept saying what a nice guy Kim is, and how Kim just wants to talk to President Obama about basketball. He was waving around a signed copy of the dictator's huge manifesto, telling everyone they should read it."
Added the witness, "Dennis was making a total jerk of himself. He wouldn't leave, and he wouldn't let anyone talk to him about shutting up, or what an oppressive country North Korea is. Eventually he had to leave the bar because the bartender was starting to get [bleep]ed-off."
Rodman has been an attention rod for the length of his career and it has continued since returning from his trip to North Korea. Sources said that Rodman has acted in a similar manner at the bar previously and that he has done strange things while there.
"He's always a problem," another insider told the Post. "He is loud and does weird stuff. Like, he'll come down to the front desk in his bathrobe in the middle of the night and make demands that people have to run to the store for him. He's belligerent about it. I thought he was just on TV getting sober?"
The hotel has come out and said that no incident occurred.
"The Time is Dennis' favorite hotel ... There were a lot of people taking pictures, his security just didn't like it and asked to move him out of the hotel. There was certainly no incident."
Rodman got into it with George Stephanopoulos over the weekend about his trip, as the ABC host told him about some of the past human right violations the leader has done in the past and that maybe he should bring that up next time he goes.
The White House denounced Rodman's trip Monday. "Instead of spending money on celebrity sporting events to entertain the elites of that country, the North Korean regime should focus on the well-being of its own people, who have been starved, imprisoned and denied their human rights," said Press Secretary Jay Carney.
NBA star has always been a beacon of attention, but that was magnified last week during his visit to North Korea with some Harlem Globetrotters and filmmakers from VICE doing a show for HBO. The dictator has overseen prison camps, starvation of children and has one of the worst human rights records in the world.
Rodman said over the weekend that the leader wanted President Obama to "call him."
