DONALD TRUMP really is worst kind of ‘tough guy’.

He is the guy that will send in others to do for him what is is not prepared to do himself.

Reading his tweets about “missiles are coming” and warning “Russia to get ready” you could be forgiven for thinking he was personally flying Air Force One or his Trump jet over Syria and dropping the payload himself.

In his head, sitting in the White House, that is probably how he sees it. Trump as an all American action hero.

But when his fellow young Americans were losing their lives in another far away war he was a student somehow managing to escape the draft throughout the war on supposed medical grounds and then on the ‘luck of the draw’.

Well you know what they say about luck and creating your own.

Now with his fingers dangerously close to the launch codes he is threatening not only Syria but by extension Russia and he wants the UK and France and others to back him up.

Like most people, I do not have any great knowledge of the Syrian conflict and like most people I probably know as much as Donald Trump does about it.

What I do know is that there has been an estimated death toll of more than 350,000 since the war began and probably another 100,000 not documented.

More than five million people have fled and are refugees in neighbouring countries and in Europe.

America and the west have been backing the various rebel forces in the conflict while President Assad enjoys the protection and support of Russia.

If Trump and Theresa May and Emmanuel Macron president of France, want to attack Syrian planes or other hardware they will likely have to risk hitting Russian personnel too as Syria is reported to have moved its arsenal since the threats were tweeted.

Trump seems like a teenager under his duvet with a headset on, plugged into Call of Duty playing war games with others in bedrooms across the world.

The difference is he is in the Oval Office and is conducting the military communication and international diplomacy of the most powerful country in the world through twitter on his mobile phone.

Unlike the millions of Syrians whose lives he is playing with, he never has and never will know the full horrors of war.