President Trump Reportedly Had A Couple Questions Regarding Blowing Up A Hurricane With A Nuclear Weapon

According to sources who have heard the president’s private remarks and have been briefed on a National Security Council (NSC) memorandum, the suggestions were made during briefings on hurricanes.

“I got it. I got it. Why don’t we nuke them?” Trump said at one such White House briefing, a source who was there told Axios.

“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.

The source told Axios that the briefer responded with something to the effect of “Sir, we’ll look into that.”
Another senior administration official told Axios, “His goal — to keep a catastrophic hurricane from hitting the mainland — is not bad. His objective is not bad.”

The idea of using nuclear weapons to disrupt hurricanes has been floated before.

A National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration fact sheet about tropic cyclones address the concept and points out that it would be unlikely to work and most likely cause more harm than good.

“Apart from the fact that this might not even alter the storm, this approach neglects the problem that the released radioactive fallout would fairly quickly move with the tradewinds to affect land areas and cause devastating environmental problems,” the sheet reads.

“Needless to say, this is not a good idea.”

Goddamn it. I love this idea so much. Have you seen the damage that hurricanes are doing these days? They are absolutely crushing coastal areas. You see them things starting to form and you drop a little nuclear bomb on it like youre the salt bae of nuclear weapons. Not like one of the big ones or nothing. Just a small one. A sprinkle. The baby bomb with a nuclear payload. Nothing to see. No major fallout. Just no more wind. Love it.

Sure, YP would be sad because he wouldn’t be able to play with his precious little sharks but so what. Plus, can you imagine the pageviews? If I was up late and saw the first footage of the nuclear blast in the middle of the Atlantic, that blog alone would secure my bonus for the year.

Mr. President, drop a nuclear bomb on anything bigger than a tropical depression, please.

PS. That last line is so perfect. Needless to say, this is not a good idea.