Sebastian Gorka, deputy assistant to President Donald Trump, said Wednesday that America is no longer just a world superpower, but is now a "hyper-power."
"Fox & Friends" co-host Steve Doocy read two tweets that had just moments ago been posted by Trump to his personal Twitter account.
"My first order as President was to renovate and modernize our nuclear arsenal. It is now far stronger and more power than ever before…" the first tweet read.
He continued his thought in a second tweet that said, "... Hopefully we will never have to use this power, but there will never be a time that we are not the most powerful nation in the world!"
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"All right, so what's he saying there?" Doocy asked Gorka.
"He's saying, 'Don't test America, and don't test Donald J. Trump,'" Gorka said. "We are not just a superpower. We were a superpower. We are now a hyper-power."
"Nobody in the world, especially not North Korea, comes close to challenging our military capabilities," Gorka continued. "Whether they're conventional, whether they're nuclear, whether they're special forces. So the message is very clear: Don't test this White House, Pyongyang."
Later in the segment he reminded the Fox hosts that "we are a hyper-power" and that "North Korea is a very, very insignificant threat in terms of scale."
Co-host Brian Kilmeade jumped in later in the segment to ask Gorka what he thought about the reactions of members of Congress after Trump's "fire and fury" comments, which included sharp criticism from top Democrats and Republican Sen. John McCain (R., Ariz.).
"You're shaking your head," Kilmeade said. "What's your reaction to American lawmakers turning against the president's words?"
Gorka said that whether it was the seven-fold increase in leaks from the last administration or these type of statements from lawmakers, he is saddened with the lack of support for the president.
"During the Cuban Missile Crisis, we stood behind JFK," Gorka said. "This is analogous to the Cuban Missile Crisis. We need to come together."
"If you think that your party politics, your ideology, trumps the national security of America, that's an indictment of you," Gorka added. "And you need to look in the mirror and ask yourself, 'What's more important: my political party or America?'"