Fox & Friends guest Jim Hanson praised President Donald Trump’s tweet that threatened to use a “Nuclear Button” to launch weapons at North Korea and credited it for forcing the North Korean government to use “a diplomatic hotline that hadn’t been used in two years” to negotiate with South Korea, adding, “I think that speaks for itself.”
In fact, according to Reuters, North Korea agreed to official negotiations “hours after the United States and South Korea delayed a military exercise amid a standoff over the North’s nuclear and missile programs.” Furthermore, as The New York Times reported, Trump’s tweet “generated a mix of scorn and alarm among lawmakers, diplomats and national security experts who called it juvenile and frightening for a president handling a foreign policy challenge with world-wrecking consequences.”
Hanson is perhaps best known for his time as the vice president of the Center for Security Policy, which the Southern Poverty Law Center deemed “a conspiracy-oriented mouthpiece for the growing anti-Muslim movement in the United States.” Hanson also regularly appears on Fox News to push Islamophobic misinformation, including talking with Fox’s Tucker Carlson about how “liberal guilt” is forcing Germany to atone for the Holocaust by tolerating refugee violence. From the January 5 edition of Fox News’ Fox & Friends: