One staffer in the briefing gave the evergreen my-boss-is-dumb response to Trump's hurricane proposal: “Sir, we’ll look into that.”
It makes sense that the president doesn’t like heavy winds. Photo: AFP Contributor/AFP/Getty Images The president’s understanding of the natural world isn’t particularly deep. He thinks that noise from wind turbines causes cancer. He’s called climate change a hoax and thinks that cold weather in the winter disproves global warming.
“I got it. I got it. Why don’t we nuke them?” [Trump said] according to one source who was there. “They start forming off the coast of Africa, as they’re moving across the Atlantic, we drop a bomb inside the eye of the hurricane and it disrupts it. Why can’t we do that?” the source added, paraphrasing the president’s remarks.
A 2017 National Security Council memo details a second chat on the efficacy of fighting the weather: In a meeting, Trump asked if his administration could bomb hurricanes so that they wouldn’t hit U.S. shoreline. Not mentioned, according to the report, is the political fallout of a successful hurricane attack: Rerouting a storm to cause a humanitarian catastrophe in another North Atlantic country sounds like a new chapter in Anthropocenic disaster.
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