Trump’s ‘Nuclear’ Button Prank in Oval Office Terrifies Vance, Ends in Big Laughs

President Trump is a comedic genius who does not let up even during tense situations.

Nowhere is that more evident than with a recent story told by Vice President J.D. Vance.

This from redstate.com.

The levity followed a long day of Trump delivering several fiery comments toward Israel and the Squad.

Vance was giving keynote remarks on Tuesday at the Ohio Republican Party dinner in Lima, Ohio. There, he recalled witnessing a tense diplomatic call in the Oval Office early on in their administration in which Trump was having trouble getting through to an unnamed foreign leader.

That is when the President decided to send his Veep into a full-blown panic.

Vance told the audience:

The President looks over at me, puts the foreign leader on mute, and says, ‘This is not going very well,’ and he presses the red button. My eyes get really big and I’m like, ‘Mr. President, what just happened?’

He looks at me and goes, ‘Nuclear.’

After a brief moment of shock, it was revealed that Trump had not, in fact, pushed the nuclear launch button, easing the tension in the room with laughter.

Vance said to laughter:

Two minutes later, a guy walks in with a Diet Coke, and he looks back at me and says, ‘It wasn’t nuclear, it’s just the Diet Coke button.’

So that’s the kind of guy, my fellow Republicans, we have as the President of the United States.

To be able to play up his characterization of being a loose cannon in such a funny manner is vintage Trump. Making America funny again.

Never a dull moment in the Trump-Vance White House, that’s for sure.

Whether it’s blasting ABC News anchor “old timer Martha Raditz,” her colleague George “Slopadopolus,” or autographing a list of dozens upon dozens of insults he has leveled at Bill Maher over the years—ranging from “low-life dummy” to “sleazebag”—there is just no question that President Trump is a highly funny, highly likable guy.

This is a man who trolled his opponent during the presidential campaign by working at McDonald’s for a day and driving a garbage truck into a rally—the master troll.

The man is simply a bottomless well of comedic genius.