‘I call it the n-word’ Trump goes off script while discussing nuclear weapons
www.independent.co.uk
Donald Trump has dubbed nuclear weapons the “n-word” as he appears to go off script whilst addressing military leaders. Speaking in Quantico, Virginia on Tuesday (30 September), the US president discussed his decision to move nuclear submarines closer to Russia after Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Security Council, made a veiled threat against the Trump administration in August. He said people need to be careful about throwing around the word nuclear. He said: “I call it the n-word. There are two n-words and you can’t use either of them.” Mr Trump then went on to brag about the US’s nuclear capabilities, saying that whilst he “hopes we never have to think about using them”, America has “newer and better” weapons than anybody else.
  • bacon_pdp@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 days ago

    Fucker still doesn’t realize he removed America’s ability to repair, maintain or build nuclear weapons.

    • Mirshe@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      7 days ago

      Because he doesn’t think in terms of manufacturing. It’s just “I want X, X shows up a month later” with no thought of the actual steps in between. A lot of people don’t think about things like the transitional steps between “I want to make X” and “X now exists” - my own stepfather had to have it explained that the steel tariff would hurt almost EVERYTHING because modern society uses so much steel, because “oh then they’ll just use more steel” like it’s Civ V and your workers just passively produce it.

    • Mirshe@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      7 days ago

      My thought is that he’s on some serious cocktail of drugs to keep him lucid for at least a couple minutes on-camera in spite of whatever neurodegenerative condition he’s got.