Trump: I Probably Wouldn’t Use Nukes

In an interview published yesterday by GQ, Donald Trump promised that he’s be much more reasonable and way less crazy once he takes office. Therefore we probably shouldn’t worry all that much about him destroying every living creature on earth with nuclear weapons. From the interview:

If anyone attacks you, you bite back pretty hard, don’t you?
Yes. Yes.

If you were the same kind of president as you are a candidate, it sometimes feels like the first time some country disrespected you, you’d just want to nuke them.
No, no, no. But some of these countries are really taking advantage of us and I would fight for fairness of our country.

But would you be scared to nuke them if you thought it was justified?
I wouldn’t be nuking anybody.

Under any circumstances?
Under… I will have a military that’s so strong and powerful, and so respected, we’re not gonna have to nuke anybody.

So could we get rid of the weapons?
No, no, we wouldn’t get rid of the weapons. Because you have so many people out there. But I would be somebody that would be amazingly calm under pressure.

But if you’re not going to use them, what’s the point in having them?
The fact that other people have them. And unfortunately gaining more and more.

But ultimately you have to be prepared to press the button or there’s no point in having them?
Well, I don’t want to talk about that subject because that’s not a subject that, you know… [restarts his thought] that has to do with that whole… [restarts his thought again] I just don’t want to talk about it. It is highly, highly, highly, highly unlikely that I would ever be using them.

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