Re: “Trump to North Korean leader Kim: My ‘Nuclear Button’ is ‘much bigger & more powerful,’ ” Jan. 2 news story.
President Donald Trump’s tweet in reply to Kim Jong-un was the last straw. It appears Trump will do anything to distract the American public from investigation of his involvement with the Russians and foreign involvement in the 2016 presidential election, including engaging in a nuclear war with a North Korean despot. President Trump must be stopped. This kind of schoolyard baiting involving nuclear holocaust is insanity. President Trump is not fit to carry out the responsibilities of leadership. He must go.
Patricia O’Roark, Wheat Ridge
It seems that the Trump administration’s nonstop saber rattling and recent “nuclear button-boasting” have been calculated to normalize an inevitability of nuclear war with North Korea. The bellicose repetitions by our unstable, impulsive president and his generals, including hints of a possible preemptive strike (“preventive war”) by the U.S., make war seem less offensive and more palatable. Coupled with societal apathy and complacency, this new normality can lead us down an extremely dangerous path to nuclear catastrophe.
Charles A. Bottinelli, Littleton
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