Trump closed out one of his most prolific days on Twitter — 16 tweets in 24 hours — with a taunt aimed at North Korean leader Kim Jong Un Tuesday night.
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump closed out one of his most prolific days on Twitter — 16 tweets in 24 hours — with a taunt aimed at North Korean leader Kim Jong Un Tuesday night.
Reacting to Kim’s New Year’s Day remarks in which he alluded to having a nuclear button at the ready, Trump asserted that his «Nuclear Button» is «much bigger & more powerful» than Kim’s — «and my Button works!»
Public outcry was swift.
Republicans, like former chief White House ethics lawyer for President George W. Bush, Richard Painter, said the tweet was evidence of Trump’s instability — and grounds for impeachment.
Painter lumped Trump together with the North Korean leader as «two psychologically unfit men crowing about their nukes… Congress needs to deal with one of them and the U. N. Security Council needs to deal with the other.»
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., slammed Trump’s «foreign policy by tweet» in remarks from the Senate floor Wednesday, while Democratic Congressman Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., invited his GOP colleagues to help check what he called «not normal behavior» from the president Tuesday night.
