Better than anyone · 2016 campaign · № 17
Nobody understood the horror of nuclear more than him
“There is nobody who understands the horror of nuclear more than me.”
- Said
- , Campaign speech, reported live by the Guardian's Ben Jacobs
- Subject
- nuclear weapons
- Topic
- Foreign policy
- Era
- 2016 campaign
What the record showed
NBC News documented his contradictory statements: he called nuclear proliferation the world's biggest problem (March 26, 2016) and said "I will be the last to use nuclear weapons" (April 28, 2016), but also "I can't take anything off the table" (September 26, 2016), suggested Japan, South Korea and Saudi Arabia might acquire their own weapons, and tweeted on December 22, 2016 that the U.S. "must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability."
Sources
- Ben Jacobs: Donald Trump: "There is nobody who understands the horror of nuclear more than me"
- 19 things Donald Trump knows better than anyone else, according to Donald Trump
- Donald Trump Has History of Contradictory Statements on Nuclear Weapons
- Here's What Donald Trump Has Said About Nuclear Weapons