A Twitter Game of Nuclear Chicken

Author Michael Fuchs criticizes President Donald Trump's North Korea strategy.

The toddler-in-chief is at it again—except this time, his play toy is the nuclear launch codes.

Trump tweeted that his nuclear button is bigger than Kim Jong Un’s. Yes, that just happened. The president of the United States of America is threatening nuclear war as part of a literal “mine is bigger than yours” argument with the leader of another nuclear state.

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