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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump in 2015: "My uncle used to tell me about nuclear before nuclear was nuclear."
Trump biographer Tim O'Brien, in Bloomberg today:
Uncle John Taught Trump About Fire and Fury
When the president reflects on nuclear weapons, he likes to remind listeners that he's the nephew of an MIT physicist.
by Timothy L. O'Brien
August 9, 2017, 3:35 PM EDT
https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/view/articles/2017-08-09/uncle-john-taught-trump-about-fire-and-fury
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John had no experience developing nuclear weapons or nuclear policy, but that has never stopped his nephew from invoking his uncle's name when he weighs in on those subjects.
So a brief tour of the president's reminiscences about Uncle John offers a window onto the philosophy, if that's what it is, of the man in possession of the U.S. nuclear codes.
Take, for example, a small portion of Trump's campaign speech on July 19, 2016, when he free-associated about the Obama administration's nuclear deal with Iran:
Possible takeaways: 1) The president needs therapy; 2) Uncle John was smart because he had good genes and Trump is smart because he shares those genes; 3) "Nuclear is powerful"; 4) "Who would have thought?"
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Shortly after Trump announced his presidential bid in 2015, he told the Boston Globe that his uncle was "brilliant" and evidence that the Trump family had "very good genetics."
"My uncle used to tell me about nuclear before nuclear was nuclear," Trump told the Globe. "He would tell me, 'There are things that are happening that could be potentially so bad for the world in terms of weaponry.'"
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leftstreet
(36,111 posts)Those painful word salads of his practically give me hives
Guess I don't have the right 'genes'
Pachamama
(16,887 posts)....thought and that person is the President of the United States.....
Scary
davekriss
(4,626 posts)highplainsdem
(49,025 posts)Perfect example of Goebbels's "big lie."
bdamomma
(63,917 posts)is so scrambled, we have to remove this idiot out of office. He is threat to us and the world.
CatMor
(6,212 posts)Trump was born in 1946 so how could his uncle be telling him about "nuclear before nuclear was nuclear" when it was already around before he was born?
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I'm sorry, but his uncle must have been switched at birth or something because there is NO WAY Trump share the genes of an MIT Nuclear Physicist & Engineer.
lpbk2713
(42,766 posts)And I always laughed at him.
highplainsdem
(49,025 posts)lpbk2713
(42,766 posts)But the voters outdid themselves with this asshole.
Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,771 posts)Just reading that made my eyes bleed.