Late-night comedians Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel wasted no time tackling the president’s tweets threatening nuclear war against North Korea after a holiday hiatus.
North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un just stated that the “Nuclear Button is on his desk at all times.” Will someone from his depleted and food starved regime please inform him that I too have a Nuclear Button, but it is a much bigger & more powerful one than his, and my Button works!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 3, 2018
“Happy New Year, everybody! We have two maniacs with nuclear warheads bragging about who has the bigger button,” Kimmel reportedly told his Los Angeles audience. In New York, Stephen Colbert echoed similar sentiments about another comment the president made about the dictatorship.
Sanctions and “other” pressures are beginning to have a big impact on North Korea. Soldiers are dangerously fleeing to South Korea. Rocket man now wants to talk to South Korea for first time. Perhaps that is good news, perhaps not – we will see!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 2, 2018
“‘We will see!’? That’s a little nonchalant. ‘Maybe it’ll lead to peace, maybe it’ll lead to thermonuclear war, no way of knowing. I as the president would do something about it, but I’m too busy keeping all the planes in the sky.’”
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