This is the same guy who thought about sending “Patriot missiles” into Mexican drug cartel labs. Let’s set aside the fact that – perhaps – bombing some drug labs is an idea worth exploring. You don’t send missiles into an ally’s territory without the joint cooperation of the country you are working with, or it is an act of war. Perhaps Mexico would offer to send their own. Let’s also set aside that Trump wanted to send “Patriot Missiles” because they sound cool and are maybe the only ones Trump has ever heard of, but are used exclusively to shoot down planes and other missiles. Let’s concentrate on the fact that Trump planned to blame another country for the bombing. He believed he could fool the world into thinking that South Korea, Russia, Peru, or Uganda, might blow the places up and not the country on the border with the world’s most powerful military.
But it now appears that the idea – blaming another country – was born out of a plan to nuke North Korea because no one would guess it was us if we blamed those incorrigible Peruvians.
From NBC News:
Behind closed doors in 2017, President Donald Trump discussed the idea of using a nuclear weapon against North Korea and suggested he could blame a U.S. strike against the communist regime on another country, according to a new section of a book that details key events of his administration.
Because no other country has radar and cannot see a missile launched from the Pacific Ocean from a submarine 200 miles off North Korea’s coast?
Trump’s alleged comments, reported for the first time in a new afterword to a book by New York Times Washington correspondent Michael Schmidt, came as tensions between the U.S. and North Korea’s Kim Jong-un escalated, alarming then-White House chief of staff John Kelly.
Why yes, that would alarm John Kelly, a military man, because he knew that Trump had the authority. He had once asked why we have all these nuclear weapons if we don’t use them, not knowing that we have them to ensure they’re never used. If Trump ordered the strike, it would be problematic finding a way to get around it. They would get around it, though. “It appears that none of them are working, sir. Perhaps Obama had all of them rewired, so you would lose any war.”
Kelly tried to use reason to explain to Trump why that would not work, Schmidt continues. “It’d be tough to not have the finger pointed at us,” Kelly told the president. Kelly then tried to point out that there would be economic repercussions, but the argument held Trump’s attention for only so long.
It would be “tough” not to be blamed? It would be impossible, but no one wanted to tell Trump he was about as smart as a fish. Thankfully, talking about losing money is the best way to manipulate Trump in any situation. Additionally, we are lucky that no idea, even “infrastructure week,” could hold Trump’s attention for more than an hour, tops.
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Maybe he thought he could claim hat he was really trying to drop a nuke on a hurricane but it missed and overshot and, just by accident, landed on a Mexican drug boss
OMG I cannot stop laughing.
I guess all that conferencing failed to mention it would trigger a nuclear Holocaust, then a nuclear winter, destroying the human race. Nah. Why bring up bad news to baby huey. If sanity were required for a species, we would fail miserably. Would you bring home pets that shit in their food bowl, destroyed their habitat, and tried to kill each other at every turn? Me thinks not. And we wonder why aliens won’t reveal themselves! Ha. That’s a good one. Would you? Meanwhile the tens of thousands of nukes sleep underground and under water. Waiting for a suicidal leader or just a malignant narcissist. Oops. We have several of those.
Impossible is the word to use when it comes to hiding where that nuke would have come from. Not just satellite imagery, but the radioactive isotopes that would be in blast fallout. They allow to trace the origins of the reactor from which the fissionable material was produced, even to the year it was produced! It’s good Kelly talked him out of this shit, but one more indictment of Kelly who more than once should have put an end to Trump and his Presidency. I am ashamed for my Marine Corps that John Kelly served in it.
I think that is the word I used. But you added much more. Thank you very much.
Interesting that these stories are coming out now, isn’t it? Almost as if someone were laying the groundwork for why any bad thing that is about to happen to this man is deserved…
All of the asinine things the mango moron did during those unfortunate four years–this one is the least surprising.