President Trump tweeted Tuesday evening about having a “nuclear button” in his desk, but the button the public knows about does not command the U.S.’s nuclear arsenal.
The presence of a button on Trump’s desk in the Oval Office was revealed last year.
According to Trump himself, the button orders a valet to bring him a Diet Coke, not order the launch of a nuclear missile.
“No no, everyone thinks it is,” the Financial Times’ Demetri Sevastopulo said was Trump’s response when jokingly asked if it orders a nuclear missile strike.
“Everyone does get a little nervous when I press that button,” Trump reportedly added. Trump reportedly drinks 12 Diet Cokes a day.
The Washington Examiner’s Graeme Jennings snapped photos of the button during an Oval Office interview in April.
Behold: The “Coke button.”
H/T: @Graeme_rj @SalenaZito @dcexaminer pic.twitter.com/ivOQFUthXY
— Dave Brown (@dave_brown24) April 28, 2017
In a tweet Tuesday evening Trump took a swipe at North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, who warned the U.S. in his annual New Year’s Day speech that he has a button on his table for nuclear weapons.
Trump boasted that he has a “bigger” and “more powerful” button that actually works, although such a button is unlikely to actually exist.
