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Buying Greenland is so last week. According to a new report, President Donald Trump has even more wacky ideas with potentially disastrous consequences, including nuking hurricanes before they hit the U.S.
The report comes from Axios, who spoke with a White House insider claiming to have knowledge of several hurricane briefings with the President. During several of them, Trump expressed a desire to drop actual nuclear bombs into hurricanes, thinking this would prevent them from hitting mainland. Spoiler alert: it wouldn’t.
For the record, Trump has already denied the report – on Twitter, were else. Speaking of himself in the third person, he claims this is yet another attempt by the fake news media to smear his good reputation, while a WH senior told Axios that his intention should earn him praise, even if the means to turn it into reality is terrible.
“I got it. I got it. Why don't we nuke them?” Trump reportedly said during a hurricane briefing, as per Axios. “They start forming off the coast of Africa, as they're moving across the Atlantic, we drop a bomb inside the eye of the hurricane and it disrupts it. Why can't we do that?”
The briefer told Trump he would look into it and Trump pressed him that this was actually a viable idea. As the insider puts it, the briefer “was knocked back on his heels.” “You could hear a gnat fart in that meeting. People were astonished. After the meeting ended, we thought, ‘What the f**k? What do we do with this?’”
Trump is said to have brought up this idea during other hurricane briefings as well, so if he did, it’s clearly something he believes will work. Only that it won’t, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says on its official webpage. The idea has been around since Eisenhower and could, if carried out, cause “devastating environmental problems” because of the radioactive fallout that would be carried to land areas. Add insult to injury, it won’t even alter the course of the hurricane, so there goes so much trouble for nothing.
“Needless to say, this is not a good idea,” the NOAA writes on the page it set up specifically to debunk this decades-long myth that will simply not die.
For the record, Trump has already denied the report – on Twitter, were else. Speaking of himself in the third person, he claims this is yet another attempt by the fake news media to smear his good reputation, while a WH senior told Axios that his intention should earn him praise, even if the means to turn it into reality is terrible.
“I got it. I got it. Why don't we nuke them?” Trump reportedly said during a hurricane briefing, as per Axios. “They start forming off the coast of Africa, as they're moving across the Atlantic, we drop a bomb inside the eye of the hurricane and it disrupts it. Why can't we do that?”
The briefer told Trump he would look into it and Trump pressed him that this was actually a viable idea. As the insider puts it, the briefer “was knocked back on his heels.” “You could hear a gnat fart in that meeting. People were astonished. After the meeting ended, we thought, ‘What the f**k? What do we do with this?’”
Trump is said to have brought up this idea during other hurricane briefings as well, so if he did, it’s clearly something he believes will work. Only that it won’t, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says on its official webpage. The idea has been around since Eisenhower and could, if carried out, cause “devastating environmental problems” because of the radioactive fallout that would be carried to land areas. Add insult to injury, it won’t even alter the course of the hurricane, so there goes so much trouble for nothing.
“Needless to say, this is not a good idea,” the NOAA writes on the page it set up specifically to debunk this decades-long myth that will simply not die.
The story by Axios that President Trump wanted to blow up large hurricanes with nuclear weapons prior to reaching shore is ridiculous. I never said this. Just more FAKE NEWS!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 26, 2019
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