Luckily his tiny little finger would have trouble pressing the button.
Donald Trump’s presidential campaign denied a report on Wednesday that the Republican presidential nominee had three times asked a foreign policy adviser why the U.S. could not use its vast nuclear arsenal.
“There is no truth to this,” spokeswoman Hope Hicks told The Hill in an email, as the anecdote from MSNBC anchor Joe Scarborough gained traction on the internet.
According to Scarborough, Trump thrice questioned a pillar of U.S. nuclear policy during an hour-long briefing with an unidentified foreign policy expert at some point in the last several months.
“If we have them, why can’t we use them?” Trump asked, according to the “Morning Joe” host.
The claim plays into the hands of Trump’s critics, who have routinely questioned his fitness for the Oval Office and warned that his many unorthodox foreign policy positions would make the world less safe. Decades of policy in Washington has been focused on reducing the globe's supply of nuclear weapons and preventing them from ever being used, as opposed to wielding them as a threat against the country's adversaries. Cont. (Video)
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