Hi,
I am very concerned about this. Is it possible for Trump to somehow take control of nuclear bombs and set them off.
What are the different safe guards that are in place to prevent this?
Hopefully, I am just being paranoid.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/08/11/donald-tr...
What do you mean take control? He already has control of the entire nuclear arsenal of the US. He's had it since he was inaugurated in 2017 and he'll have it for another two and a half months.
But more importantly - yes, you're being paranoid; it's very unlikely that it comes to that.
In practice? I expect the US Military would suddenly become very slow and inefficient for about the length of time it would take to 25th him out of there or for whichever Secret Service Agent with an incurable fatal illness is currently assigned to the "other traditional duties of the Praetorian Guard."
More than a half of them didn't (assuming you're addressing the American people), I find this comment needlessly inflammatory.
So, yeah — by this standard, all Americans are lunatics, because we allowed the system to put the angry orange cheetoh in power.
No. not more than half of them. No more than about 30 percent did anything at all to prevent it. A similar number actively tried to make it happen, the reminder were spread amongst 'don't care', 'sounds like too much work' and 'fuck all y'all'. It was very slightly better but pretty similar results this week (and we won't even mention the Senate...). So an opinion that the median American is some combination of vicious, stupid, lazy, dangerous or crazy may be inflammatory, but it is certainly evidence-based.
Given that Trump has just fired the Secretary of Defense, without cause, we might start thinking what his end game is going to look like.