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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,986 posts)
Tue May 10, 2022, 08:03 PM May 2022

TFG Kept Asking if China Was Shooting Us With a 'Hurricane Gun'

Near the beginning of Donald Trump’s time in office, the then-president had a pressing question for his national-security aides and administration officials: Does China have the secret technology — a weapon, even — to create large, man-made hurricanes and then launch them at the United States? And if so, would this constitute an act of war by a foreign power, and could the U.S. retaliate militarily? Then-President Trump repeatedly asked about this, according to two former senior administration officials and a third person briefed on the matter.

“It was almost too stupid for words,” said a former Trump official intimately familiar with the then-sitting president’s inquiry. “I did not get the sense he was joking at all.”

The sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private conversations, tell Rolling Stone that Trump began interrogating national-security officials and other staffers about the alleged weapon during the first year of his presidency, and his question would pop up sporadically until at least 2018. Two of the sources recalled that as Trump got deeper into the second year in his term, he started to drop the topic, and occasionally joked about it.

In certain circles within the upper ranks of Trumpland, the then-leader of the free world’s query became such a mockable occurrence that it became known among some as the “Hurricane Gun” thing.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/trump-kept-asking-china-shooting-195723086.html

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TFG Kept Asking if China Was Shooting Us With a 'Hurricane Gun' (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 2022 OP
Does he think it works like this? DBoon May 2022 #1
Did you get that through a FOIA request? iemanja May 2022 #3
Idiocracy, the Documentary: Jan. 20, 2017-Jan. 20, 2021. marmar May 2022 #2
Almost fell out of my chair laughing at that first sentence rurallib May 2022 #4
I honestly went and made myself a snack before I read this underpants May 2022 #7
That boy's about as sharp as a sack of wet mice. Probatim May 2022 #5
This is who 1/3 of America wants back in the White House. maxsolomon May 2022 #6

rurallib

(62,415 posts)
4. Almost fell out of my chair laughing at that first sentence
Tue May 10, 2022, 08:26 PM
May 2022

I had never heard this one before. Sounds like the very height of stupidity

underpants

(182,803 posts)
7. I honestly went and made myself a snack before I read this
Tue May 10, 2022, 09:16 PM
May 2022

Holy smokes what a read. I’d have to guess he got this idea for the same place the Q people did.

maxsolomon

(33,345 posts)
6. This is who 1/3 of America wants back in the White House.
Tue May 10, 2022, 08:35 PM
May 2022

An amphetamine-addled clown.

And as we've seen, 99% of the GQP will be fine with it. Power is its own reward.

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