Every single time I find myself thinking “This man cannot possibly get any crazier,” something like this comes along and proves me wrong. Every. Single. Time.
A new report out from Rolling Stone now reveals that Donald Trump actually was not just cracking a stupid joke when he questioned his aides over whether China had some sort of “hurricane gun” they were using against the United States.
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 and a third person briefed on the matter.”
The mere notion of Trump’s “hurricane gun” conspiracy theory was so outrageous that one former aide, who was described by the publication as someone “intimately familiar with the then-sitting president’s inquiry,” didn’t have anything nice to say about their former boss’ unhinged, ridiculous ideas.
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“It was almost too stupid for words,” the unidentified former Trump official said. “I did not get the sense he was joking at all.”
Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago golf resort was under threat of serious hurricane damage by Hurricane Irma in 2017, and again by Hurricane Dorian in 2019.
“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,” the publication writes. “This patently boneheaded line of inquiry from Trump, which has not been previously reported, was merely one instance in an administration overflowing with Trump’s rampantly absurd, conspiracy-theory-powered ideas and policy proposals, many of which were ignored or shot down, thus avoiding additional atrocities.”
Back in 2019, while serving as the President of the United States, Donald Trump infamously called on his administration to check whether or not he could stop a literal hurricane in its tracks by detonating a nuclear bomb into the storm, as reported by Axios at the time. This was the very same hurricane that saw the notorious “SharpieGate” scandal when Donald Trump seemingly attempted to edit the course of a hurricane with a Sharpie marker on a poster of the storm’s projected track.
We couldn’t make this up if we tried.
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