Reporter Asks Mattis About Trump’s “Nuclear Button”, Immediately Gets Silenced With Brutal Reponse

Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis did everything possible to avoid commenting on President Trump’s recent tweet regarding North Korea. Trump recently said on Twitter that Kim Jong Un has a nuclear button on his desk, but that he should know, that Trump’s is bigger, and works.

Reporters asked Mattis if the tweet concerned him to which he responded:

“My job as the secretary of defense is to make certain that we have forces ready to defend this country,” Mattis said.

“But with all due respect Mr. Secretary — ,” a reporter interjected.

“That always preludes something that is perhaps less than due respect from you, Barbara,” Mattis said. “Go ahead, please.”

The reporter then tried in a last ditch effort to get Mattis to respond to the question by claiming it had something to do with national defense.

“No, you’ll have to take it up with the president,” Mattis said.

Trump was responding to Kim Jong Un’s assertion that he has a nuclear button on his desk when he said:

“North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un just stated that the ‘Nuclear Button is on his desk at all times,’” Trump tweeted Tuesday evening in response. “Will someone from his depleted and food starved regime 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 liberal media is trying to get Trump’s cabinet to say something that will appear divisive so they can sell to the public that Trump’s close advisors don’t believe in him, as they have been doing.

The new liberal media move is to claim that people close to Trump don’t believe in him, and Mattis is not going to play into their narrative, so he wisely just passes the question off to his president.