Everything and nothing that Donald Trump says should be taken seriously. He has proved both that he does what he says he will do – and that he always backs down. Let us hope that when he is making threats of annihilation, he’s not fingering the nuclear button but just having a tantrum.
Any other world leader with access to Doomsday weapons would cause global horror. The US president has said he could “totally destroy” North Korea, “wipe out” Afghanistan, threaten that “a whole civilization will die tonight” in Iran and that the country would be “blown off the face of the earth” if it targets the US military in the region.
