Button brag was, uh, smart: Nikki

PRESIDENT TRUMP’S tweet mocking North Korean leader Kim Jong Un over the size of his “nuclear button” was part of an effort “to keep Kim on his toes,” the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations said Sunday.

Ambassador Nikki Haley defended Trump’s bombastic approach to North Korea — including a tweet last week where he taunted Kim that “I too have a Nuclear Button, but it is a much bigger & more powerful one than his, and my Button works!”

“I think that he always has to keep Kim on his toes. It’s very important that we don’t ever let him get so arrogant that he doesn’t realize the reality of what would happen if he started a nuclear war,” Haley said on ABC’s “This Week.”

Foreign policy experts, including some Republicans, have criticized Trump’s comments as reckless, but Haley said they were necessary.

“We’re not going to let them go and dramatize the fact that they have a button right on their desk and they can destroy America. We want to always remind them: ‘We can destroy you, too,’ ” she said.

“It is a serious situation, and he can’t sit there and imply that he’s going to destroy the United States without us reminding him of the facts and the reality that if you go there, it’s not us that’s going to be destroyed, it’s you.”

Haley said there had been no shift in the administration’s North Korea policy, after Trump said Saturday he’d “absolutely” be willing to talk to Kim.