Donald Trump once asked aides if China could use a ‘Hurricane Gun’ on the US, report says
- Former aides say Trump asked if the US could retaliate militarily if such a Chinese weapon existed
- Trump has also previously suggested that the US nuke hurricanes in order to disrupt their path
Former US president Donald Trump once fixated on the idea that China had a weapon that could fire human-made hurricanes at the US, according to a Rolling Stone article published on Tuesday.
The outlet spoke to two senior Trump administration officials and his former press secretary Stephanie Grisham about his interest in the matter.
The two sources, who spoke to Rolling Stone under the condition of anonymity, said Trump began asking his aides about the supposed Chinese weapon during the first year of his presidency and that the issue kept resurfacing until the second year.
Some staffers later mockingly referred to Trump’s idea as the “Hurricane Gun” theory, per the outlet.
According to the officials, Trump also asked if the US could retaliate militarily if such a weapon existed, per Rolling Stone.
“I was present once when he asked if China ‘made’ hurricanes to send to us,” one of the former officials told the outlet, adding that Trump “wanted to know if the technology existed”.
