It played on Kim’s insecurities. In the last six years, 18 of Kim’s 86 missile tests had failed, according to the Center for Nonproliferation Studies. The president of the United States was practicing a scene out of Dr. Strangelove. The Internet lost its collective mind. The Washington Post’s Twitter account rushed to clarify: “There is no button.” Colin Kahl, Obama’s former deputy assistant secretary of defense, tweeted, “Folks aren’t freaking out about a literal button. They are freaking out about the mental instability of a man who can kill millions without permission from anybody.”
