Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump says he “wouldn’t be nuking anybody” if elected president.
While Trump wouldn’t get rid of America’s nuclear arsenal, he says it is “highly unlikely” he would launch a nuclear attack against any U.S. adversaries regardless of their actions toward him.
During a recent Q&A with GQ Magazine, interviewer Chris Heath told the bombastic billionaire, “it sometimes feels like the first time some country disrespected you, you’d just want to nuke them.”
“No, no, no,” Trump, who’s fourth in the Washington Examiner’s presidential power rankings, responded.
“Some of these countries are really taking advantage of us and I would fight for fairness of our country, [but] I wouldn’t be nuking anybody,” he added, after being pressed by Heath.
Trump then dodged a question when asked whether he’d stand firm in refusing to use nuclear force “under any circumstances.”
“I will have a military that’s so strong and powerful, and so respected, we’re not gonna have to nuke anybody,” he said.
Trump continued, “We wouldn’t get rid of the [nuclear] weapons because you have so many people out there. But I would be somebody that would be amazingly calm under pressure.”
According to the GOP front-runner, “the fact that other people have [nuclear weapons]” and are “gaining more and more” deters him from wanting to eradicate the country’s nuclear arsenal.
Still, he noted, “it is highly, highly, highly, highly unlikely that I would ever be using them.”
