Donald Trump tells Kim Jong Un his '˜nuclear button' is bigger

The US President tweeted in response to Mr Kims declaration earlier this week. Picture: AP

The US President tweeted in response to Mr Kim’s declaration earlier this week that he has a button for nuclear weapons on his table and the entire US mainland is now within strike range.

Mr Trump asked if someone from Mr Kim’s “depleted and food starved regime” can “please inform him that I too have a Nuclear Button, but it is a much bigger & more powerful one than his, and my Button works!”

The president does not actually have a nuclear button on his desk. Known as the nuclear “football”, it is carried by a rotating group of military officers everywhere the president goes.