Democrats are now scaring you about how Trump would be dangerous with Nuclear weapons.
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Every statement Trump makes on any issue is taken out of context. It is cherry picked to show only the statements he makes that sound stupid with out the other statements clarifying what he means. This is what one site reported on his statements.... Here’s what Trump has said during the five times he has talked about nuclear weapons during the campaign so far: “Biggest problem, to me, in the world, is nuclear, and proliferation” Trump said nuclear capability was the “single biggest problem” facing the world in a wide-ranging interview with the New York Times in March. Asked whether the U.S. should be the first to launch a nuke during a confrontation with an enemy, Trump said that should be the “absolute last step.” “Power of weaponry today is beyond anything ever thought of, or even, you know, it’s unthinkable, the power,” he said. “It’s a very scary nuclear world,” he added. “Biggest problem, to me, in the world, is nuclear, and proliferation.” “I don’t want to rule out anything” Trump reiterated the fact that he would be the “last to use nuclear weapons” during an April interview with NBC’s Today show. But he said the option is still on the table. “I don’t want to rule out anything,” he said. “I will be the last to use nuclear weapons. It’s a horror to use nuclear weapons.” “I will not be a happy trigger like some people might be,” he added. “But I will never, ever rule it out.” “We have nuclear arsenals which are in very terrible shape” In the same New York Times interview in March, Trump indicated that Japan and South Korea might need to obtain their own nuclear arsenal to protect themselves from North Korea and China if the U.S. is unable to defend them. “It’s a position that we have to talk about,” he said. “If the United States keeps on its path, its current path of weakness, they’re going to want to have that anyway with or without me discussing it, because I don’t think they feel very secure in what’s going on with our country.” “At some point, we cannot be the policeman of the world. And unfortunately, we have a nuclear world now,” he later added. Trump also said Japan and Korea might need to pay more for their own defense. “You know, when we did these deals, we were a rich country. We’re not a rich country. We were a rich country with a very strong military and tremendous capability in so many ways. We’re not anymore,” he told the newspaper. “We have a military that’s severely depleted. We have nuclear arsenals which are in very terrible shape. They don’t even know if they work.” “Maybe it’s going to have to be time to change” Trump discussed his stance further with CNN in late March, saying the U.S. might need to change its decades-old policy of preventing Japan from getting a nuclear weapon. “Can I be honest are you? Maybe it’s going to have to be time to change, because so many people, you have Pakistan has it, you have China has it. You have so many other countries are now having it,” Trump told CNN’s Anderson Cooper. Trump later appeared to contradict himself, saying he doesn’t “want more nuclear weapons.” “I will have a military that’s so strong and powerful, and so respected, we’re not gonna have to nuke anybody” Trump “wouldn’t be nuking anybody” because he wouldn’t need to, given America’s defense force, he said in an interview with GQ magazine last November. “I will have a military that’s so strong and powerful, and so respected, we’re not gonna have to nuke anybody,” he said, adding that he would be “amazingly calm under pressure.” Still, Trump told the magazine he wouldn’t get rid of the nuclear weapons because “other people have them” and are “unfortunately gaining more and more.” “It is highly, highly, highly, highly unlikely that I would ever be using them,” he added. 1
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Any civilized person would rule out first strike nuclear attacks. Who besides terrorists would vote for someone who would not rule out a first strike attack? A first strike attack would very likely end civilization. Please, give me a scenario where ending civilization is the right decision. Trump is constantly asking, "if we have them, why can't we use them?" He has no knowledge of nuclear grand strategy. I would now like to insert some quotes from Reagan: “We seek the total elimination one day of nuclear weapons from the face of the Earth.” Ronald Reagan, Inaugural Address, 1985 “A nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought. The only value in our two nations possessing nuclear weapons is to make sure they will never be used. But then would it not be better to do away with them entirely?” Ronald Reagan, 1984 State of the Union “It is my fervent goal and hope…that we will some day no longer have to rely on nuclear weapons to deter aggression and assure world peace. To that end the United States is now engaged in a serious and sustained effort to negotiate major reductions in levels of offensive nuclear weapons with the ultimate goal of eliminating these weapons from the face of the earth.” Ronald Reagan, October 20, 1986 “I can’t believe that this world can go on beyond our generation and on down to succeeding generations with this kind of weapon on both sides poised at each other without someday some fool or some maniac or some accident triggering the kind of war that is the end of the line for all of us. And I just think of what a sigh of relief would go up from everyone on this earth if someday–and this is what I have–my hope, way in the back of my head–is that if we start down the road to reduction, maybe one day in doing that, somebody will say, ‘Why not all the way? Let’s get rid of all these things’.” Ronald Reagan, May 16, 1983 “My central arms control objective has been to reduce substantially, and ultimately to eliminate, nuclear weapons and rid the world of the nuclear threat. The prevention of the spread of nuclear explosives to additional countries is an indispensable part of our efforts to meet this objective. I intend to continue my pursuit of this goal with untiring determination and a profound sense of personal commitment.” Ronald Reagan, March 25, 1988 Message to Congress on NPT “Peace is not the absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.” Ronald Reagan, from Reagan’s Secret War by Martin and Annelise Anderson’s 1
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