Day 948: Self-proclaimed genius Trump wants to nuke hurricanes

Donald Trump loves to brag about his intelligence. He has called himself “like, really smart” and a “very stable genius” on numerous occasions. He continues to make such proclamations even as he’s shown to be woefully deficient about, well, virtually every subject.

According to a Sunday Axios report, there may be a new leader for Trump’s ignorance, and it’s literally where nuclear weapons meet natural disasters.

President Trump has suggested multiple times to senior Homeland Security and national security officials that they explore using nuclear bombs to stop hurricanes from hitting the United States, according to sources who have heard the president’s private remarks and been briefed on a National Security Council memorandum that recorded those comments.

Behind the scenes: During one hurricane briefing at the White House, Trump said, “I got it. I got it. Why don’t we nuke them?” according to one source who was there. “They start forming off the coast of Africa, as they’re moving across the Atlantic, we drop a bomb inside the eye of the hurricane and it disrupts it. Why can’t we do that?” the source added, paraphrasing the president’s remarks.

The briefer “was knocked back on his heels,” the source in the room added. “You could hear a gnat fart in that meeting. People were astonished. After the meeting ended, we thought, ‘What the f — -? What do we do with this?’”

There’s ignorance and then there’s the 1st-grade-like suggestion of dropping nuclear materials into air and water rapidly advancing toward the U.S. and thinking good things will result.

To suggest — on multiple occasions no less — bombing hurricanes shows Trump knows nothing about weather or weapons.

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