Liberal Forum

9 Terrifying Things Donald Trump Has Publicly Said About Nuclear Weapons

On Wednesday, MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough passed on an intriguing piece of gossip: Donald Trump, speaking with a “foreign policy expert,” repeatedly asked “why can’t we use nuclear weapons.”

Scarborough’s claim was thinly sourced.

He didn’t reveal the identity of the expert advising Trump or even where he learned the information.

Information attributed to anonymous sources is inherently suspect.

But one need not rely on anonymous sources to glean Trump’s views on nuclear weapons.

He has broached the subject repeatedly on the campaign trail.

Several of his public comments are similar to Scarborough’s account while others are terrifying in their own way.

1. Trump said he might use nuclear weapons and questioned why we would make them if we wouldn’t use them

2. Trump said he was open to nuking Europe because it’s a “big place”

3. Trump said that “you want to be unpredictable” with nuclear weapons

4. Trump reiterated that it was important to be “unpredictable” with nuclear weapons

5. Trump said he wasn’t that worried about more countries getting nukes since “it’s not like, gee whiz, nobody has them”

6. Trump had no idea what the “nuclear triad” was

7. Trump started talking about nuclear weapons in Pakistan and made no sense at all

8. Trump said he’d be OK with a nuclear arms race in Asia

9. The time he said it didn’t matter if Saudi Arabia acquired nuclear weapons because “it’s going to happen anyway”