Do you think Trump would ever drop a nuclear bomb?

[kentuck]

There has been a pattern with his military adventures. Each one gets bigger and the weapons get bigger with each mission.

Posted a few days ago: https://www.democraticunderground.com/10028907559

[RKP5637]

1. Yes!!! n/t

[milestogo]

2. Yes. It would make America great again.

[bighart]

3. I think he is itching to

and looking for any excuse.

I fear he will do it to North Korea soon as a matter of fact.

[Auntie Bush]

13. I agree. N/t

[EX500rider]

4. I think any US President would in the right circumstance...

[zipplewrath]

9. And what would those be?

"The only winning move is not to play"

[bighart]

19. That is so true

Out of the frying pan and on to the surface of the sun.

[Charles Bukowski]

29. Dimwit Donald is literally the only president

in the postwar era I could see using nukes as a 1st strike option.

[Ms. Toad]

40. There are no right circumstances for the use of a nuclear bomb. n/t

[kentuck]

41. Thank you, Ms. Toad.

[barbtries]

5. my theory

and i share it every chance i get: tillerson said you give me the state dept and i'll give you a place you can nuke.

fuck yes i believe he would do that.

[Auntie Bush]

16. Did he really say that?

I hope not or we are in big trouble.

[barbtries]

21. i have no idea.

that's my theory. tillerson wants to let russia have ukraine for the oil, trump has itchy fingers.

but no, i have no idea, it's just my theory. why else a man who has never served the public in his life?

[Auggie]

6. Yes

[WoonTars]

7. Yes. I think he's itching to.

...and the scary part is I'm sure there are some in the military chain of command that would be more than happy to enable him...

[Amishman]

8. I don't think he would strike first, nuclear war is bad for business

I think his greed Trump's his ego

I could see his stupidity and ego pushing another power (NK) into striking first.

[GeorgeGist]

27. He's a dumbass about business.

[Angry Dragon]

10. can he make money off of it?? ................ follow the money

[unblock]

11. probably each president would under certain very narrow circumstances.

the issue with donnie is that the circumstances that would get him to do it are probably quite different from the circumstances that would have gotten obama to do it. and likely a lot broader.

[Rollo]

12. Only if he says he won't.

[yuiyoshida]

14. YES absolutely

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[lunatica]

15. His shrugging response after he drops it will be "Who knew it would be that big?"

[MiniMe]

17. Is the Pope Catholic?

During the campaign, he wanted to know why we had all those bombs if we didn't use them.

[hurple]

18. YES!

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Surprised he hasn't already.

[NickB79]

20. If North Korea used them, I'm sure he'd respond in kind

Pyongyang would be a smoking crater......

[Pachamama]

22. Absolutely

I think he has been having wet dreams since the election about when he gets to launch feb first Nuke...

The 59 Tomahawks and the MOAB was just the foreplay....

[njhoneybadger]

23. tRump was testing the waters with Syria and Afghanistan

The big one is coming

[kentuck]

24. Think about it:

He went to the disastrous raid in Yemen resulting in the death of a dead Navy Seal and civilians to a bombing raid over Mosul that killed a reported 200 civilians to the 59 Tomahawk missiles dropped on the airfield to the Mother of All Bombs dropped on Afghanistan today. The bombs keep getting bigger and bigger.

[njhoneybadger]

36. What if all this Bannon in peril stuff is a big ruse

Bannon has convinced tRump that the fourth turning is what America needs to be Great

[struggle4progress]

25. If anybody anywhere uses one, everybody everywhere gets a very bumpy ride

even if it doesn't unleash a nuclear war

Nobody will say ho-hum

The political and economic consequences of a single blast will be immediate and global

[kentuck]

26. Good thing Congress is on vacation....

...we wouldn't want them to get in the way.

[reflection]

28. Only on days ending in "y". n/t

[rurallib]

30. absolutely

considering his disregard for anyone else, especially brown people, I don't think it would bother him in the least

[mtnsnake]

31. Definitely & it's a toss-up as to where the moron tries to drop it first: N Korea, Mexico, or Canada

He's that fucking crazy.

If he ever faces impeachment, he just might take the entire world down with him.

[nancy1942]

32. I certainly do.

This is the main reason he terrifies me. He is not normal.

[Motley13]

33. Putz said, "why do we have them if we aren't going to use them"

terrifies me

[spanone]

34. in. a. heartbeat.

[Eliot Rosewater]

35. Zero hesitation, we must have someone in the chain willing to disobey order to

save human race.

[janlyn]

37. Yes,

During the campaign I told friends and family what he would do once in office,and unfortunately using
nukes was something I thought he would eventually get around to doing!

[CGK]

38. Yes n/t

[smirkymonkey]

39. Absolutely. If he is not stopped, he will do it.

I have no doubt of it.

[Lint Head]

42. Definitely. He wants to go down in history with a bang. Pun intended. When you think of Truman

you think of the nuclear bomb and it's use. Trump wants that and more. He wants to be the most fantastically huge President that there ever was. Big league!

[kydo]

43. When his approval rating sinks to about 20%. For sure he will. Bet he picks NK.

[The River]

44. No

the adults in the Pentagon won't let that happen.

What's with all the fear?

[PoiBoy]

45. America's new military strategy seems to be...

Kill 'em all.. let God sort 'em out...

How he gets there doesn't seem to matter to him...

[beam me up scottie]

46. If he was allowed to? Absolutely.

But I don't think our military will allow him to nuke another country. I'm no fan of military brass but they're not stupid.

[democratisphere]

47. Only a completely insane individual would do such a thing.

YES!

[sinkingfeeling]

48. Yes. He's ignorant of what that would mean. To him, it's just another toy.

[bathroommonkey76]

49. Of course

Trump is a power hungry maniac who is willing to show the world how bigly his balls are. Plus, all of these military bombings have taken the Russia collusion story out of the headlines.

[madokie]

50. Before the year is out

if by chance we get rid of his sorry ass in the mean time

[Nevernose]

51. They dropped a MOAB today

With a little mushroom cloud and everything.

My guess is that with Trump, the military clearly doesn't have to worry about civilian casualties, and that it was a warning/test of the effects of Pyongyang's bunker system.

There's only one way to escalate from a MOAB, and Trump/generals are like drug addicts: they need a bigger hit every time

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

52. No, he'd drop several nuclear bombs!

Go big or go home.

[jpak]

53. MAGAtons Bigly!!!1111

yup

[napi21]

54. Would the Con? Yes! However I have enough confidence in the Military execs to say I believe

they'd talk him out of it. I think one of the reasons he ordered dropping the MOAB today is because someone told him we had them and when he was told we haven't used any in action he said DO IT! New BIG toy, ya know.

[Champion Jack]

55. yes, he is stupid enough to do it

[slumcamper]

56. what would Gandhi do?

[Leghorn21]

57. Yes. I've been "waiting" for him to use nuclear weapons somewhere, somehow, since

January 20, 12:01 pm, 2017.

for true

[onecaliberal]

58. Yes he wants to really badly.

[JTFrog]

59. Would someone who said "if we have them, why can't we use them" ever drop a nuke? Ya think? nt

[WomenRising2017]

60. Of course he would.

I would like to believe, and hold on to hope, that the military will explain to him why it's not a good idea.

However, when he surrounds himself with morons like Flynn, I don't have much hope.

[VOX]

61. Since I have negative confidence in 45, I'd have to say he just might.

He's self-isolated and detached from reality, and seems to have intense periods of cognitive impairment. He could very well snap if stressed.