Will the Blowhard Blow Us Up?
Maureen Dowd AUG. 12, 2017
WASHINGTON — A couple of chubby brats with big missiles and short fuses.
Is nuclear winter coming?
Fire and fury, the likes of which the world has never seen, are bellowing from a posh golf club in New Jersey while fire and doom emanate from a medieval police state in Asia.
Ever since Donald Trump was elected, the mandarins and chatterers of the capital have been alarmed that we would get to this precipice of blustery, threatening exchanges between Trump and Kim Jong-un about thermonuclear annihilation, and that when we did, it would be parlous.
Fear, Xanax and Ambien abound here.
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