Seems that very few of you alarmists know anything about "The Football", nuclear codes, NORAD, "fail-safes", nor the chain of command and control. The president can't do anything, nada, zilch, until the military gives him a verified threat assessment of a clear and present danger. It's the military which will inform Trump of an actual attack, and then, and only then does the football come into play. The president is the last ditch safety, who keeps the military from initiating a nuclear launch on their own authority. It's one of the checks and balances for how the civilian authority controls the military. Take your faux news back to your kinder-garden class.