Eh, gallows humor from a random nobody is one thing. Joking about basically ending the world as we know it from someone who literally has the power to end the world as we know it is another.
This faux pas is certainly not at the top of my list of criticisms of Reagan, but he did deserve some shit for it.
It’s Schroeder’s war. The classification changes depending on the political context.
It is a war in contexts where not calling it a war would be politically harmful (like denying thousands of wounded Americans benefits). It is not a war in contexts where calling it a war would imply that the president vastly overstepped their constitutional bounds.