Trump asks why US can't use nukes: MSNBC

[Native]

Source: CNBC

Donald Trump asked a foreign policy expert advising him why the U.S. can't use nuclear weapons, MSNBC's Joe Scarborough said on the air Wednesday, citing an unnamed source who claimed he had spoken with the GOP presidential nominee.

"Several months ago, a foreign policy expert on the international level went to advise Donald Trump. And three times [Trump] asked about the use of nuclear weapons. Three times he asked at one point if we had them why can't we use them," Scarborough said on his "Morning Joe" program.

Scarborough made the Trump comments 52 seconds into an interview with former Director of Central Intelligence and ex-National Security Agency Director Michael Hayden.



Read more: http://www.cnbc.com/2016/08/03/trump-asks-why-us-cant-use-nukes-msnbcs-joe-scarborough-reports.html

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Another article stated that he asked why the U.S. can't use nukes three (3) times in one hour!

[left-of-center2012]

1. Who would Trump nuke?

Lyin' Ted?
Little Marco?
Nato?

[Joe Nation]

5. The Russian Mob

He owes them a lot of money.

[lark]

37. Nah, if anything he'd nuke Brussels

to render NATO useless so Russia could take over Ukraine and forgive all his loans as payment.

[kairos12]

14. Failing businesses, then he would collect insurance on them.

[tclambert]

39. ISIS, of course. You say there are millions of other people in the way? Tough.

See, they are all Muslims and foreigners, so they don't count.

Maybe he'll nuke the Syrian refugees, too, 'cause there might be some ISIS people hiding among them.

[Chemisse]

46. And of all the innocent people in their midst?

"They know about it. Believe me, they know."

[sarae]

51. Probably Judge Curiel

or the Khan family.

[barbtries]

2. horrifying.

nt

[ffr]

27. Agree, that's not funny at all n/t

[bucolic_frolic]

3. Speechless

The press should be all over this. If corroborated should be
public info all over the place.

[jovi]

48. why is the press not all over this?

[jpak]

4. ...

[CRH]

38. LOL, that movie was prescient, ...

The actor riding that nuclear weapon was none other than Slim Pickens. Who could better describe this year's republican nominee?

[Judi Lynn]

49. Outstanding. n/t

[thesquanderer]

6. possibly the single scariest report I've seen yet. (n/t)

[PatSeg]

7. What is really frightening

is he didn't say this on camera just to get media attention. Evidently he really doesn't understand.

[uawchild]

8. Good lord

Three times? Who does this idiot want to use nuclear weapons against?

[smirkymonkey]

12. Probably anybody who dares to not recognize his magnificence.

He doesn't need a good reason, he's a complete psychopath.

We need to do everything in our power to keep those stubby little fingers away from that red button.

[Native]

13. Doesn't matter just as long as it makes him feel good.

[RoadRunner]

9. He said it during the debates!

"What's the point of having nuclear weapons if you don't use them?" Didn't even raise an eyebrow at the time.

[Native]

11. I remember that. I choked on my tea at the time.

[Chemisse]

47. And that's why the GOP has a Trump problem.

They should have spoken out all the times in the past year that Trump said something horrific. Maybe he wouldn't be their nominee right now.

I think it's appropriate that they are being undone by their own political cowardice.

[lonestarnot]

10. Oh boy. Button talk. We already knew he was thinking it during the baby toss.

[benfranklin1776]

15. A real life Greg Stillson

The prospect of a Trump presidency is a bottomless well of horror for any thinking person.

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[Bradical79]

16. Maybe Putin and others shouldn't be helping this guy...

I wonder if this will change some attitudes about a Trump presidency? Bigots and fascists still should have some sort of sense of self preservation, right? This is moving into immediate existential threat territory.

[Native]

17. When WaPo follows with "Dear Donald Trump: Here is why we don’t simply nuke the Islamic State"

you know it's getting serious. Nothing like painting a picture of just how stupid and unhinged this candidate is.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/08/03/dear-donald-trump-here-is-why-we-dont-simply-nuke-the-islamic-state/?postshare=611470236352149&tid=ss_tw

[VWolf]

18. I'm speculating

that Pres Obama knew about this already, and that may have been the impetus for his "unfit for duty" comment.

Again, just speculating.

[Native]

22. I'm waiting for the mole trap in his intelligence briefings to totally end his campaign/career.

He simply cannot keep his mouth closed to save his soul. It is simply a matter of time.

[Bradical79]

19. Aparently, he already said something similar publically

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Co738teWYAA3c13?format=jpg&name=large

We all kind of forgot about under the sheer volume of garbage that comes out of his mouth.

[sarchasm]

20. Trump just put a giant glowing fluorescent target on our heads.

Just asking that question is massively irresponsible. The ultimate yelling "fire!" in a theatre scenario.

[joshcryer]

21. Remember when people poo-poo'd Obama's nobel peace prize?

Because he pushed for non-proliferation?

Yeah, I remember that.

[Fast Walker 52]

23. There is nothing funny about this guy anymore

He's a fucking danger to us all. Fuck the GOP for supporting this psychopath

[sakabatou]

24. "MAD? Why should I care about that?"

[Jerry442]

54. "What, me worry?" NT

[independentpiney]

25. Time for a remake of the Daisy ad

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Though I usually prefer originals and hate colorisation

[Native]

28. You know they are working on it as we type!

This has the potential, and rightly so, to eclipse the Khan story.

[Overseas]

26. K&R. Dangerous ignorance.

[ffr]

29. Time to have a conversation with his supporters

We're all about a political debate between candidates, but Drumpf is asking about why we cannot use nuclear weapons. Since when is that a subject of conversation and under what circumstances would you, as a Drumpf supporter, support a candidate tossing around the idea of using nukes during peacetime?

Roll reverse. How you, as a Drumpf supporter, feel if HRC was the one asking on multiple occasions why we cannot use nukes during peacetime?

Scary. Scary! SCARY!!

Time for the adults in the room to step forward.

[BlueCollar]

31. having a conversation requires

That the parties be intellectually agile enough to engage in a meaningful discussion.

Given that his supporters are educated by FOX news or home schooled by rednecks or fundies I'm pretty sure the opportunities would be rare if not non-existent.

[ffr]

32. There's got to be some way to get through to them!

Turn their power off or turn their fucking TVs off long enough to have the conversation.

But I agree. We're not dealing with rational people.

[The_Casual_Observer]

30. He is being his usual wise ass self.

Acting like Baby Huey.

Every day there is something new with this idiot.

[jeanmarc]

33. Scarborough HAD to keep this to himself.

Maybe it was leaked to him recently, but I doubt it. Hillary is going to beat Trump, but the nation is in peril with even a 30 percent chance of Trump being elected our President. Seriously would rather have a President Cruz. Trump is batshit insane.

[calimary]

34. Jesus, Mary, and Joseph...

"Why can't we use nukes?"

Oh my sweet God...

[SunSeeker]

35. Folks are understandably wondering why Scarborough sat on this news for DAYS.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/08/03/i-have-a-few-questions-for-morning-joe/?hpid=hp_no-name_opinion-card-d%3Ahomepage%2Fstory

[Native]

36. The article says he sat on it for months. What?

[SunSeeker]

41. Trump said it months ago, but Scarborough apparently learned about it a few days ago.

Scarborough learned of the exchange “in the last few days,” according to an MSNBC executive.

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_57a1e47ae4b0693164c347d0

[sarcasmo]

40. Bat Shit

[Lifelong Protester]

42. Because real life

is not a video game....

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

43. Just the place for a Snark!

"Just the place for a Snark!" the Bellman cried,
As he landed his crew with care;
Supporting each man on the top of the tide
By a finger entwined in his hair.

"Just the place for a Snark! I have said it twice:
That alone should encourage the crew.
Just the place for a Snark! I have said it thrice:
What I tell you three times is true."

---

The Hunting of the Snark
Lewis Carroll

[47of74]

44. My fear is that he would make the United States such a threat to humanity...

...that the rest of the world would feel they have no choice but to rise up and destroy the United States. And by rest of the world I even mean our closest neighbors and allies - such as Canada, Mexico, the UK, Australia, Japan, and so on.

[colsohlibgal]

45. He's The Gift That Keeps On Giving

One nation has dropped a nuclear bomb on ordinary citizens.....us, and we did it twice. The second one was not necessary and really neither was the first.

In any event we kind of ceded the moral high ground in this area years ago thanks really to Truman's racist war hawk Secretary of Defense.

So the Donald as usual is acting like a ten year old kid.

If the republicans don't go to the extreme and dump this clown this election might make the McGovern-Nixon 1972 race look like a squeaker by comparison.

[4lbs]

50. Here's the MSNBC Morning Joe clip where Joe the Scar talked about it.

[Thrill]

52. Guess that's what the President meant by

"Woefully unprepared"

[muntrv]

53. He wants to be Major Kong from "Dr. Strangelove?"

http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=major+kong+rides+the+bomb&view=detail&mid=8E9A21A1B4AC387F3E4D8E9A21A1B4AC387F3E4D&FORM=VIRE

[Blue Owl]

55. Trump to nukes: "You're Fired"

n/t

[Native]

56. OMG. I can see and hear it happening. Brilliant.

[raven mad]

57. Knowing tTump?

He'd nuke Alaska - after all, we "don't count"............

[cannabis_flower]

58. While this report is disturbing and not really surprising..

it is also unsubstantiated and unconfirmed.