Trump: ‘The Global Warming That We Have To Be Careful Of Is The Nuclear Global Warming’

Republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump holds a plane-side rally at Youngstown-Warren Regional Airport in Vienna, Ohio, Monday, March 14, 2016. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
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In in extensive interview with the New York Times posted Saturday, GOP frontrunner Donald Trump outlined his views on foreign policy and said he would be willing as an “absolute last step” to use a nuclear weapon first in an altercation with another country.

“[I]t’s the biggest problem the world has, nuclear capability,” Trump said. “I think it’s the single biggest problem. When people talk global warming, I say the global warming that we have to be careful of is the nuclear global warming.”

Trump spoke to the New York Times about his vision if he was president over the course of two phone interviews for a total of 100 minutes. He also said he would stop buying oil from Saudi Arabia if the country refused to put troops on the ground to fight the Islamic State, that he would remove U.S. security forces from Japan and South Korea if they didn’t contribute more financially for the protection, and that he would not rule out spying on American allies like Germany’s leader Angela Merkel.

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  1. I read the entire piece and the transcript. It was so juvenile, with a foreign relations strategy that more mirrors something by Bart Simpson, than anyone else.

    I’m surprised Maggie Haberman didn’t break out laughing.

    He’s as well prepared and knowledgeable as Palin. smh

  2. Avatar for sjk sjk says:

    I’ll take what’s behind door number four Monte.

  3. “…and I’m the guy you want with his finger on the button.”

  4. Avatar for mrf mrf says:

    Now we know why evangelicals have flocked to Trump. The crazy billionaire with bad hair who is on his 3rd wife can bring on the end times.

  5. Trump and his entire campaign are people, and running a campaign for people, with the emotional maturity and intellectual abilities of twelve or thirteen year old C average boys. Somewhat mean ones.

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