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Donald Trump, during a briefing on Category 5 Hurricane Dorian, shared this word salad of epic proportions:
“All we know is that it’s possibly the biggest. I’m not sure I’ve even heard of a category 5, I knew it existed. And I’ve seen some category 4s. I don’t even think I’ve heard the term other than I know it it’s there and it’s the ultimate and that’s what we have, unfortunately.”
This is at least the fourth time Trump has said he’s never heard of category 5 hurricanes, most recently in May of this year. This is the fourth Category 5 hurricane to strike the United States during his presidency: Irma, Maria, Michael, Dorian.
President Trump: “I’m not sure that I’ve ever even heard of a Category 5.”
“A category 5 is something that, I don’t know if I’ve ever even heard the term” Here’s a picture of Donald Trump discussing Hurricane Michael And another surveying the damage in Florida Michael was a Category 5 storm pic.twitter.com/UCzxXEbEFy — Andrew Weinstein (@Weinsteinlaw) September 1, 2019
Trump: “I’m not sure that I’ve ever heard of a Category 5.” This is the fourth Category 5 hurricane to strike the United States during his presidency. Irma, Maria, Michael, Dorian. pic.twitter.com/xWLYuQRTBU
Axios is reporting that Donald Trump (above) has suggested on more than one occasion to national security officials that the U.S. bomb hurricanes with nuclear weapons.
During one hurricane briefing at the White House, Trump said, “I got it. I got it. Why don’t we nuke them?” according to one source who was there.
“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 source added, paraphrasing the president’s remarks.
Asked how the briefer reacted, the source recalled he said something to the effect of, “Sir, we’ll look into that.”
Trump replied by asking incredulously how many hurricanes the U.S. could handle and reiterating his suggestion that the government intervene before they make landfall.
The briefer “was knocked back on his heels,” the source in the room added. “You could hear a gnat fart in that meeting. People were astonished. After the meeting ended, we thought, ‘What the f—? What do we do with this?'”
Axios’s Jonathan Swan notes the concept of bombing hurricanes isn’t a ‘Trump original,’ as the question has been raised before going back as far as the Eisenhower administration. Scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have published a fact sheet which addresses the flawed idea. One issue the researchers mention, among many, is radiation fallout. From the fact sheet: “Apart from the fact that this might not even alter the storm, this approach neglects the problem that the released radioactive fallout would fairly quickly move with the tradewinds to affect land areas and cause devastating environmental problems.” The Trumpster denied suggesting such things it on Twitter, so that pretty much confirms he said it. https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1165918301932916736?s=21
Trump is stone cold sober but all his ideas sound like something you come up with when you’re super high:
– we should just nuke the hurricanes – how much would it cost to buy Greenland – hear me out: SPACE FORCE – fuck it let’s order 600 burgers pic.twitter.com/sCfPb5B2oi — Dan Amira (@DanAmira) August 26, 2019
Trump wants to nuke hurricanes. I repeat: the president thinks it’d be a great idea to drop nuclear bombs into hurricanes. #NotTheOnion
Trump: I hear voices and they tell me to buy Greenland and lob nukes at hurricanes Sane People: I am worried that the President is a loon Media: *reports that Sane People are concerned* Trumpers: Why are the media manufacturing this false narrative about Trump’s sanity
Donald Trump, during a briefing on Category 5 Hurricane Dorian, shared this word salad of epic proportions: 