The White House defended President Donald Trump’s tweet about the size of his nuclear button and said that Americans should not be concerned about the mental fitness of their president, but rather about Kim Jong-un’s.
After Trump wrote the tweet, many criticized him. The Democrats were loudest and former Vice President Joe Biden called it dangerously cavalier, Reuters reports. White House spokeswoman Sara Sanders was asked whether the Americans should be worried about the mental fitness of Trump after he appeared to be speaking lightly about nuclear threats.
”The president and the people of this country should be concerned about the mental fitness of the leader of North Korea. He’s made repeated threats, he’s tested missiles time and time again for years, and this is a president who’s not going to cower down and who’s not going to be weak and is going to make sure that he does what he’s promised to do and that is stand up and protect the American people,” she said.
Trump and Kim have constantly exchanged threats. According to Biden, Trump showed poor judgment.
“The only war that is worse than one that’s intended, is one that is not intended. This is not a game. This is not about, you know, can I puff my chest out. The United States has a role in the world that the world has come to expect. I think the president is much, much too cavalier. And it’s dangerous,” Biden said.
Democratic Senator Edward Markey stated that Trump’s tweet bordered on presidential malpractice, needlessly deepening a crisis and squandering a fresh opportunity to attempt diplomacy.
Yet, according to Vice President Mike Pence, the president was making clear that America could not be bullied and threatened. According to him, there was an opportunity for a peaceable solution if Pyongyang abandoned the nuclear ambitions.
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