Hurricane Donald
Okay, so this is how weird it has gotten.
Trump is having ideas. Really bad ideas. He thinks maybe dropping a nuke into a hurricane to stop it.
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.
Oh dear Lord, he can’t wait to nuke some damn thing. Why not wait until just before it makes landfall?
So if a nuclear power plant goes bad, we should nuke it? That would make it even? They would cancel each other out and it would suddenly become just a pleasant day?
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Asked how the briefer reacted, the source recalled he said something to the effect of, “Sir, we’ll look into that.”
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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.
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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?'”
I dunno. Cry.