October 9, 2024 - 4:45pm
Donald Trump has called for the elimination of all nuclear weapons, including for the US, during an interview today with comedian Andrew Schulz.
The former president told Schulz he had nearly reached a deal with China and Russia while in office to eliminate nuclear weapons within all three countries, which would have eventually applied to other nuclear powers.
“We were close to a deal for getting rid of nuclear weapons. It would be so good,” Trump said. “I’m talking about Russia, ourselves and China. We would then bring everyone else into it.”
The comments came during a discussion of Joe Biden’s handling of relations with Iran, as Trump criticised the White House incumbent’s reluctance to take out Iran’s nuclear capabilities. Nuclear weapons, the Republican candidate said, are “the biggest threat we have in the world today”, adding: “it’s not global warming, where the oceans are rising 1/8 of an inch in the next 500 years.”
Throughout Trump’s initial 2016 campaign and his time in office, his critics frequently cited the risk of nuclear war as a primary reason why he shouldn’t be in office, pointing to his unpredictability as a risk factor. Those fears were amplified when, in 2018, Trump taunted Kim Jong Un on Twitter, writing: “Will someone from his depleted and food starved regime please inform him that I too have a Nuclear Button, but it is a much bigger & more powerful one than his, and my Button works!”
Despite his provocative comments to world leaders, Trump has campaigned as a dove on foreign policy, frequently boasting throughout his 2024 campaign that there were no new wars involving the US during his presidency. Earlier this week, he told conservative commentator Ben Shapiro that his foreign policy was “peace through strength”, adding: “I’m not an isolationist. I helped a lot of countries. I kept countries out of war.”
His dovish streak long predates this campaign cycle. Trump’s rise to power in 2016 coincided with the GOP’s isolationist realignment on foreign policy, and during his initial campaign he became one of the first GOP candidates to openly criticise the war in Iraq, calling it “a big mistake”.
“It only takes one,” Trump said of nuclear weapons during the Wednesday interview. “They have five countries now that have capability, and soon they’ll have more. And we shouldn’t let there be more.”
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SubscribeBeing besties with the Donald is a Sisyphean task.
Is it ever. Even if it’s true, you don’t trash the gut in public. This is the Trump I can’t stand.
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All caps – and unhinged to boot. Good stuff
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Biden opened the border. The buck stops there. El Salvador owes the U.S. nothing. If America is going to welcome my convicts with open arms, I’m going to send them there.
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Britain’s Brexit politician Nigel Farage is a close friend of Donald Trump. We’ll see how that one pans out. Farage is no sycophant, but I suspect Trump doesn’t much care for suck-ups.
I make no comment on Trump’s personality, since I don’t know him except from public appearances and the memoirs of present or former enemies. In other words, I don’t know him at all. His children clearly love him, and that says quite a lot, as even Hilary Clinton recognised.
Al Capone’s children loved him too! Al capone gave to charity. And Trump?
A fool’s errand?
Trump abuses and alienates everyone around them regardless who they are, he can’t help himself, It’s in his nature and he very predictable as a result, almost clock work in a way. True friendship is an impossibility with him. He has an obsessively, paranoid need to dominate everyone around him do to his deep insecurities, to the point of being counter-productive and even self-destructive. An old leopard leopard never changes his spots and the scorpion always stings the tortoise that it’s floating on because that’s what it does, even if it drowns as a result.
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Bid deal. Bukele is taking El Salvador’s side on this issue, and Trump is taking America’s. There is much to admire in what Bukele has achieved, but Americans deserve protection from murderous criminality too.
That was unfair. The blame totally lies with the Biden administration. All one has to do is to apply the asylum laws and none of the bandits would be qualified. Turn the gangs away, deport them and best yet, finish the wall.
If El Salvador is sending its criminals to the US, the US should send them back.