US President Trump calls nuclear weapons the biggest existential threat, not climate change
US President Donald Trump has minimized the threat of climate change, stating that ’monster nukes’ from the US and Russia pose the biggest threat to Armageddon.
In an interview with Fox News, Trump discussed the dangers of global nuclear stockpiles and expressed regret over the massive financial expenditure on maintaining the ’big monsters’ that could potentially cause the end of the world.
He stated that the US and Russia have ’by far the most’ warheads but admitted that China could catch up before the end of the decade.
The president told Sunday Morning Futures: ’I watched Biden for years say the existential threat is from the climate. I said “no”.
’The greatest is sitting on shelves in various countries called “nuclear weapons” that are big monsters that can blow your heads off for miles and miles and miles.’
’It’s just bad you have to spend all this money on something that if it’s used, it’s probably the end of the world.’
Last week Trump revealed he is interested in restarting talks with Russia and China to reduce each country’s nuclear stockpile, in the hope of significantly cutting their massive defense budgets.
’There’s no reason for us to be building brand new nuclear weapons, we already have so many,’ he said from the Oval Office.
’You could destroy the world 50 times over, 100 times over. And here we are building new nuclear weapons, and they’re building nuclear weapons. We’re all spending a lot of money we could be spending on other things actually, hopefully much more productive.
’One of the first meetings I want to have is with President Xi of China, President Putin of Russia. And I want to say, “let’s cut our military budget in half.” And we can do that. And I think we’ll be able to.’
His words come ten days after a now-legendary confrontation with Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House, in which Trump accused the Ukrainian president of ’gambling with World War 3’.
The president also urged Iranian leaders to open nuclear talks with the US and threatened the nation with military action if they did not comply.
In a letter to Iranian Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Trump expressed hope that the US and Iran were ’going to negotiate’ because, if they didn’t, his administration ’might have to go in militarily’.
He told Fox News, in an interview filmed on Thursday but scheduled to air over the weekend: ’I’ve written them a letter saying, “I hope you’re going to negotiate because if we have to go in militarily, it’s going to be a terrible thing.”’
Russia currently has the world’s largest nuclear stockpile, with over 5,500 nuclear warheads.
America is the next biggest with 5,044 nuclear weapons, located in the US and five other nations: Turkey, Italy, Belgium, Germany, and the Netherlands.
World Affairs Correspondent
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