The Terrifying Truth of Trump's 'Nuclear Button' Tweet
When the American president tweeted on Tuesday evening that his “Nuclear Button” is “bigger & more powerful” than the North Korean leader’s, and that “my Button works!” unlike the desktop button that Kim Jong Un had just threatened the United States with in a New Year’s speech, Twitter naturally exploded with angst.
People wondered whether hallucinating, whether their would involve “reading Twitter hot takes as nukes rain down.” “Folks ... are freaking out about the mental instability of a man who can kill millions without permission from anybody,” one former Obama administration official . Setting aside the technicalities of Donald Trump’s boast (he has , not a button), the after watching Fox News. He was daring Kim to prove that his “nuclear button” works by, for example, testing a missile with a live nuclear weapon over the Pacific Ocean—the kind of scenario that the Republican Senator and Trump confidant Lindsey Graham me would dramatically increase the chances of a U.S. attack on North Korea.
