I was in a meeting today at work with two coworkers who are the Crisis Management planning team and we were working on creating an exercise for our business to go through to practice different crisis scenarios. Last year was a fire. This year is an IT outage.
In the middle of the meeting, one of them gasped and uttered, “oh my god, what!?” Or something to that effect. I glanced at his screen and saw the news headline about Trump’s threat to wipe out an entire civilization tonight if they didn’t do what he wanted.
I didn’t say anything, though I understood his chagrin. Why was he checking the news amidst our meeting? But as I consider this, I can’t think of anything more relevant. We are working to help our business prepare for crisis. We have a hypothetical IT crisis we’re talking about, and we have a very real one happening in real time. The guy who has the nuclear codes is unhinged and publicly threatening war crimes, genocide, as we speak.
And his Easter Sunday Tweet:
This is insane.
How are so many elected officials and military leaders who have sworn an oath to uphold the constitution allowing this to continue????
How do we stop this?
