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Donald Trump Threatened To Nuke Iran On Twitter And Of Course It’s A Meme Now

Memes and cockroaches will survive the nuclear hellfire.

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On Monday, Donald Trump went on Twitter and threatened to nuke Iran. And look, let’s not kid ourselves: we all knew this was coming. Still, it doesn’t feel great now that we’re here.

Trump’s tweet, which was written in all caps because of course it was, came after Iranian President Hassan Rouhani told a meeting of Iranian diplomats in Tehran that the United States should not “play with the lion’s tail” and warned that war with Iran would be “the mother of all wars”.

To which Trump responded in the calm, measured fashion we have come to expect from him.

Even in the era of Trump, it’s pretty concerning to see the US President swinging his dick around by invoking the spectre of nuclear war. What’s even more concerning is that White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders declined to say whether Trump consulted with national security aides before sending the tweet.

As for the denizens of the internet, they’ve responded to the President’s threat in the only way they know how. With memes.

For real, I’m gonna miss quality laffs like this when we’re all reduced to radioactive cinders.

Feature image via Gage Skidmore/Flickr