President Donald Trump threatened North Korea Tuesday with “fire and fury” in response to reports that the isolated nation had escalated its nuclear arms capability ― with the U.S. now possibly within its reach. Hours later, the North said it was “carefully examining” a plan to strike the U.S. island territory of Guam in the Western Pacific.
All this within 24 hours, giving people a chance to turn to the one sure salvation: The sarcastic, self-deprecating peanut gallery of Twitter.
No joke: I read Trump's statement on North Korea and thought it was a North Korean statement on Trump.
— Noah Rothman (@NoahCRothman) August 8, 2017
Like church, meditation or that morning trip to the bathroom, Twitter is once again a reliable source of relief from the anxiety that plagues us during these troubling times.
Amid all the escalating war talk, at least we know that we can depend on Twitter to make the end of the world feel as sarcastic as possible, in 140 characters or fewer.
Read the hilarious tweets below, if only to save yourself from panic-crying.
I'm confused I always thought everyone on Twitter wanted to die.
— aaron blitzstein (@BlitznBeans) August 9, 2017
Millennial: your generation got houses and jobs
— Ken Norton (@kennethn) August 8, 2017
Boomer: yes but we lived with constant fear of nuclear winter
Millennial: hold my avocado
100% chance Trump thinks Guam is short for Guamamole.
— Michael, still here (@Home_Halfway) August 9, 2017
Hey @rianjohnson can you release Star Wars right now? I don't think we're gonna make it to the release date. Thank you.
— Kumail Nanjiani (@kumailn) August 8, 2017
Getting my "North Korea just launched a nuke and we have minutes to live" tweets ready: pic.twitter.com/JNJIzzsDs4
— Nikki Glaser (@NikkiGlaser) August 8, 2017
literally on the brink of nuclear war @FoxNews pic.twitter.com/XputG20CCg
— Zack Pearlman (@ZackPearlman) August 9, 2017
Guys, Trump tweeted tough against North Korea. Don't you all feel safer already?
— Wajahat Ali (@WajahatAli) August 9, 2017
Maybe this is just Trump's way of ending the opioid crisis.
— Mike Leffingwell (@mikeleffingwell) August 9, 2017
Could a real estate developer become the head of cardiac surgery at a major hospital? Sure, if GOP leaders ran the hospital.#NorthKorea
— Peter Daou (@peterdaou) August 9, 2017
This North Korea thing is really scary, but don't worry -- we have our worst people on it.
— Ken Tremendous (@KenTremendous) August 8, 2017
Do you think anyone has mentioned to North Korea that they're supposed to take Trump seriously but not literally?
— Melissa McEwan (@Shakestweetz) August 9, 2017
Me: I really hope Trump doesn't nuke North Korea.
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) August 9, 2017
Friend: The night is still young.
Maybe he can get North Korea to pay for a wall around California.
— aaron blitzstein (@BlitznBeans) August 9, 2017
trump supporters will survive because North Korea will bomb cities where everyone hates trump oh shit was this his plan all along
— Bez (@Bez) August 9, 2017
Andrew's got the right idea about this North Korea situation. pic.twitter.com/1xVRvWeY2K
— Funny Or Die (@funnyordie) August 9, 2017
If this is the end, my only regret is never getting a perm as a joke on a prank show.
— Brad Gage (@bradgage) August 9, 2017
please pray for president trump! which could literally mean anything! truly whatever outcome is in your heart! pray for that!
— joe mande (@JoeMande) August 9, 2017
You know what would reduce the threat of nuclear war with North Korea? A fully-staffed State Department that actually cared about diplomacy.
— Caroline O. (@RVAwonk) August 8, 2017
Trump crawls out of bunker and surveys the flatten radioactive landscape that was D.C.
— Alex Griswold (@HashtagGriswold) August 8, 2017
"Well, time for Infrastructure Week"
I hope Kim Jong Un doesn't say anything about Hillary winning the popular vote.
— Qwerty Jones (@QwertyJones3) August 9, 2017
I wonder how many more times I can masturbate before the world ends.
— Steve Agee (@steveagee) August 9, 2017
Me trying to laugh on North Korea then realizing that MF is crazy and might actually do it pic.twitter.com/gL9JPU4eHk
— Taylor Owens (@Taylorjowens23) August 9, 2017
The good news is, none of us will be alive to read your hot takes on "what everyone gets wrong about nuclear fallout"
— Benari Poulten (@BenariLee) August 9, 2017
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