President Trump warned that “monster” nuclear weapons are the biggest threat to humanity and that tomorrow could easily “end the world.”
The commander gave a harsh warning, lamenting the dangers of stockpiling nuclear weapons in his push to launch talks with Russia and China.
“The great (threat) is a big monster that sits on the shelf of various countries known as ‘nuclear weapons’ and can blow your head off with miles and miles,” Trump told Fox News.
Trump continued to lament the amount the United States, which has the world’s second largest nuclear stockpile behind Russia, spent on its nuclear weapons program.
“We spend a lot of the money on nuclear weapons. The level of destruction exceeds what you can imagine,” he said in an extensive interview.
“If you’re spending all of this money, it’s a bad thing to have to spend everything on what’s probably the end of the world.”
Trump also opposed world leaders and politicians who have spent years arguing that climate change poses the greatest threat to humanity.
“I’ve been watching (former President Joe) Biden for many years and said that the existential threat is the climate,” Trump said. “I said ‘No’.”
“They talk about the climate, they talk about the dangers of the climate, but not about the dangers of nuclear weapons that could happen tomorrow.”
He came after he recently warned that Russia has the world’s most nuclear weapons, but China, which has the third largest stockpile, is likely to catch up within a decade.
He also stressed that he would like to resume talks on nuclear weapons control with Russia and China, and that he hopes that ultimately the US and the US can agree to cut their massive defense budget in half.
“There’s no reason to build brand new nuclear weapons. We already have so many,” Trump said last month. “You can destroy the world more than 50 times more. And here we are building new nuclear weapons, and they are building nuclear weapons.”
He added that the Middle East and Ukraine “we’ve put it all in place” and that he aims to engage in nuclear negotiations with both countries.
