President Donald Trump chastised his predecessor for thinking global warming was the biggest threat facing the U.S., arguing nuclear weapons were a bigger threat “by a factor of about five million.”
“To me, the most important issue is the nuclear issue, because I know President Obama said global warming is our biggest problem, and I would say that no, it’s nuclear warming is our biggest problem by a factor of about five million,” Trump told Fox News’ Sean Hannity.
“The nuclear problem we have to make sure, we have to be very careful,” Trump told Hannity in an interview after meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, Finland. Trump’s interview with Hannity is set to air Monday night.
Indeed, President Barack Obama called global warming the greatest U.S. security threat on multiple occasions. Obama even blamed global warming for contributing to the Syrian civil war and Hurricane Sandy in 2012.
“No challenge – no challenge – poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change,” Obama said in his 2015 State of the Union speech.
Trump has largely abandoned the Obama administration’s policies on global warming, including promising to withdraw from the Paris climate accord as soon as possible. However, the Trump administration has not rescinded an executive order on international climate finance.
Trump met with Putin for several hours on Monday in Helsinki where the two leaders discussed a range of topics, including the 2016 election meddling.
“During today’s meeting, I addressed the issue of Russian interference in our elections. I felt this was a message best delivered in person. Spent a great deal of time talking about it and president Putin may very well want to address it and very strongly,” Trump said after the meeting.
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Trump is the heckler pointing out the obvious…. Socialists suck. They don’t belong on the stage.
Who has the most to lose in a nuclear showdown? Be wary of the guys who have the least to lose.
The trouble with the nuclear threat is it doesn’t address all of the hidden agendas of the anthropological climate change movement. There is no other way that the wealth of the industrial nations will be transferred to the developing nations, force de-industrialization, and the destruction of free enterprise, forcing people out of their cars, expande the power of government, and forcing people to use very expensive green energy.
Very few people including myself can imagine the full consequences of terrorists setting off a nuclear bomb in one of the world’s large cities.
By now, we know that harnessing solar and wind energy is expensive. Financially, all the upside belongs to the guys installing it. Suggestions that we could and should depend on it are reckless.
Trump has put a novel argument out there, that anything parasitic to the American economy is a national security risk.
Actually these days I would think President Trump must be feeling the biggest threat
is the fifth estate and people like leaker Commey who has finally come out of the closet claiming policies don’t matter as much as taking out this President . What a disgusting piece of crap that egomaniac is . Can’t you just see the leaker running for President to … save the country .
Russia spies on the USA … shocking… but they can’t hold a candle to what China does
and the USA are as active in that game as anyone ….just like always .
No nuclear weapons are not the biggest threat it is people like the ring leaders of the domestic spy agencies pretending to protect America . They have been discovered, fired in some cases , but this isn’t over . They will sell out USA interests to refill the swamp .