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Miles Archer

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30. His first term query, "If we have nukes, why can't we use them?"

Reply to Doodley (Reply #20)

Fri May 8, 2026, 04:36 PM

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Trump asks why US can’t use nukes: MSNBC
Published Wed, Aug 3 2016
8:05 AM EDTUpdated Wed, Aug 3 20163:01 PM EDT

Matthew J. Belvedere
@Matt_Belvedere

https://www.cnbc.com/2016/08/03/trump-asks-why-us-cant-use-nukes-msnbcs-joe-scarborough-reports.html

Trump asked a foreign policy expert advising him why the U.S. can’t use nuclear weapons, MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough said on the air Wednesday, citing an unnamed source who claimed he had spoken with the GOP presidential nominee.

“Several months ago, a foreign policy expert on the international level went to advise Donald Trump. And three times [Trump] asked about the use of nuclear weapons. Three times he asked at one point if we had them why can’t we use them,” Scarborough said on his “Morning Joe” program.

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