Trump Wanted US To Retaliate Militarily Against China For Shooting Storms At America With “Hurricane Gun”

Rolling Stone reports:

Near the beginning of Donald Trump’s time in office, the then-president had a pressing question for his national-security aides and administration officials: Does China have the secret technology — a weapon, even — to create large, man-made hurricanes and then launch them at the United States? And if so, would this constitute an act of war by a foreign power, and could the U.S. retaliate militarily? Then-President Trump repeatedly asked about this, according to two former senior administration officials.

“It was almost too stupid for words,” said a former Trump official intimately familiar with the then-sitting president’s inquiry. “I did not get the sense he was joking at all.” The sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private conversations, tell Rolling Stone that Trump began interrogating national-security officials and other staffers about the alleged weapon during the first year of his presidency, and his question would pop up sporadically until at least 2018.

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Oh.

A hurricane gun.

that seems sane. https://t.co/qc9CJzuLYT

— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) May 10, 2022

Trump asked if China was shooting hurricanes at us and whether we could bomb them in response.

We couldn’t make that up if we tried. https://t.co/09vY9sqwS8

— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) May 10, 2022

“I was present [once] when he asked if China ‘made’ hurricanes to send to us,” said the other former senior official. Trump “He was asking about it around the time, maybe a little before, he asked people about nuking hurricanes.” https://t.co/tffsOQxhIg

— Noah Shachtman (@NoahShachtman) May 10, 2022