Former President Donald Trump employed an odd euphemism for the word “nuclear” when talking about Russia’s attitude toward being a nuclear power.
Trump, who appeared Monday on Fox Business to talk about how he would pressure Russia to stop its war on Ukraine, said Russian President Vladimir Putin constantly used the “N-word” when they were both world leaders.
“But I listened to him constantly using the N-word,” Trump said. “That’s the N-word. And he’s constantly using it, the ‘nuclear’ word. And we never talk, we say, ‘Oh, he’s a nuclear power,’ but we’re a greater nuclear power.”
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Trump said if he were still president, he would threaten Putin by sending nuclear submarines to Russia’s coast to pressure Putin’s forces out of Ukraine. He also said he hoped he would never have to use nuclear weapons because “it would be the tragedy of all tragedies.”
Trump, a strong contender for the 2024 presidential election, told the Washington Examiner on Tuesday he was “surprised” by Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, insisting that he believed Russian forces massing on Ukraine’s border were simply “a tough way to negotiate but a smart way to negotiate.” Trump also claimed he has been “very, very tough on Putin,” despite saying he “got along with him very well.”
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President Joe Biden is expected to visit Poland as part of his Ukraine-focused trip to Europe on Saturday. Biden will discuss how the United States “is responding to the humanitarian and human rights crisis that Russia’s unjustified and unprovoked war on Ukraine has created,” according to the White House.
