You won’t believe what target President Trump picked for a nuclear strike

Source: https://renewedright.com/you-wont-believe-what-target-president-trump-picked-for-a-nuclear-strike/
Published: Aug 26, 2019
Author: staff
Post Date: 2019-08-26 20:44:43 by BTP Holdings
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You won’t believe what target President Trump picked for a nuclear strike

One of the biggest blockbuster stories of the Trump administration broke over the weekend.

The Fake News Media was jumping for joy.

And you won’t believe what target President Trump picked for a nuclear strike.

On Sunday Axios’ Jonathan Swan reported that in the first year of Trump’s Presidency Trump supposedly asked his advisors if it was possible to bomb the eye of the hurricane to keep it from striking the American coast.

This is not a new idea. Scientists have suggested the strategy as far back as the 1950s.

Axios reports:

Behind the scenes: 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?'”

Trump responded on social media that this story was fake news.

twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1165918301932916736

The Fake News Media ran with this ridiculous story as more evidence Trump was “crazy.”

But given the track record of the so-called “mainstream” media there is little chance the story is true as described.

Is this story fake news?

Poster Comment:

Nuke a hurricane?

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#1: Pinguinite    To: BTP Holdings (#0)

#1) Hurricaines, throughout their 1-2 week life span emit energy to something on the scale of 1 nuclear bomb every 20 minutes, so the energy of a nuke blast might not impress it all that much.

#2) Given that Hurricanes are powered by the heat of the ocean and nuke blasts give off lots of heat, if anything a nuke blast might add to the hurricane strength instead of diminishing it. At least if it went off in the eye.

#3) I could see Trump asking about that, if only academically or jokingly. And I could see the media taking him more seriously than intended, much like his "chosen one" comment.

The truth is somewhere in the middle.

Pinguinite posted on 2019-08-27 02:08:54   Reply   Private Reply

#2: Darkwing    To: BTP Holdings (#0)

Remember when Trump told the world that he could shoot someone on 5th ave, in front of 1,000 people and they would still vote for him. This is just as stupid.

Darkwing posted on 2019-08-27 14:15:49   Reply   Private Reply