[I]Donald Trump[/I][I] suggested firing nuclear weapons into hurricanes to prevent them hitting the US, reports in Washington claim.
The president is said to have raised the idea of bombing hurricanes with senior Homeland Security and national security officials on numerous occasions, dating back as far as 2017.
āI got it. I got it. Why donāt we nuke them?ā one source told US news website Axios the president had asked during a hurricane briefing at the White House.
The source said the briefer was āknocked back on his heelsā as Mr Trump went on to suggest dropping a nuclear bomb in the eye of an off-shore hurricane would disrupt its formation.[/I]
āPeople were astonished,ā the source added. āAfter the meeting ended, we thought, āWhat the f***? What do we do with this?āā
it gets worse:
During a hurricane briefing, the[COLOR=rgb(184, 49, 47)] US President asked if it were possible to disrupt hurricanes forming off the coast of Africa by dropping a nuclear bomb in the eye of the storm, Axios news site reported.
According to an anonymous source, the news website said meeting attendees left the briefing thinking, āWhat do we do with this?ā
Axios did not say when this conversation took place.
It is reportedly not the first time the president made such a suggestion. In 2017, Mr Trump asked a senior official whether the administration should bomb hurricanes to prevent them making landfall.
Someone trying to stop nature?? Yaani this guy thinks heās smarter than all the humans that came before him? Iād like to drop him into the eye of a hurricaneā¦actually, thatās not a bad idea. We might finally have a solution. Storms and hurricanes will just say āfack it, weāre going to Marsā