Hawaii: An employee accidentally pressed the button.

WH: It was a state exercise.

It's you, asshole. And your kneejerk blaming is not reassuring.

Fact that nobody knew it was false and Trump just continued to golf. It's his My Pet Goat Moment.

have hit the launch button.

If he hadn't been golfing things might have been much worse.

A state level civil defense screwup cant trigger anything federally other then a "Wtf are they doing?" Alerts dont travel upwards as states have absolutely no way to detect a launch. If this were a real thing, our missiles would already be in the air before the state alert would have even gone out.

no accountability

as an exercise just to see what would happen?

She thought it was over...and it wasn’t funny talking her down from this idiotic event.

I remember the similar 1971 EBS scare - not fun, and even though we were a hair's breadth away from a SAC base, it was still far less likely than an attack on Hawaii today.

Trump - "is that part of the US?"

Hawaii Gov. David Ige says it was

human error

that caused an alert to go out a few hours ago to television, radio and cell phones in Hawaii: "BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND TO HAWAII. SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. THIS IS NOT A DRILL."

The alert went out shortly after 8 a.m. Hawaii time. The Hawaii Office of Emergency Management announced that it was a false alarm around ten minutes later, and a followup alert was sent to residents around 45 minutes later: "There is no missile threat or danger to the state of Hawaii. Repeat. False alarm."

Link to tweet

Now anything could be a drill...or use...This is not a drill, we promise. Kiss your ass goodbye!?

Trump didn't need to act presidential if those duties bored him too much, he just needed to look like a regular person and express some empathy towards his fellow Americans.