President Trump has warned that “monster” nuclear weapons are the most important risk to humanity and will simply “end the world” tomorrow.
The commander in chief gave the grim warning as he lamented the hazards of stockpiling the nukes amid his push to kickstart arms management talks with Russia and China once more.
“The greatest [threat] 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,” Trump advised Fox Information’ “Sunday Morning Futures.”
Trump went on to lament the amount of cash america, which has the second largest stockpile of nukes on this planet behind Russia, has spent on its nuclear weapon program.
“We spend a lot of money of nuclear weapons — the level of destruction is beyond anything you can imagine,” he mentioned within the wide-raging interview.
“It’s just bad that you have to spend all this money on something that if it’s used, it’s probably the end of the world.”
Trump additionally pushed again in opposition to the world leaders and politicians who’ve spent years claiming local weather change is posing the most important risk to humanity.
“I watched Biden for years say the existential threat is from the climate,” Trump mentioned. “I said ‘no’.”
“They talk about the climate and they talk about the dangers of the climate but they don’t talk about the dangers of a nuclear weapon, which could happen tomorrow.”
It comes after he not too long ago warned that Russia has by far essentially the most nukes on this planet however predicted China, which has the third largest stockpile, will possible catch up inside a decade.
He pressured, too, that he desires to restart nuclear arms management talks with Russia and China and that he finally hopes the 2 nations, in addition to the US, might agree to chop their large protection budgets in half.
“There’s no reason for us to be building brand new nuclear weapons, we already have so many,” Trump mentioned final month. “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.”
He added that he would look to have interaction in nuclear talks with the 2 nations as soon as “we straighten it all out” within the Center East and Ukraine.
