Reporter Asks Trump in Front of Xi, ‘Why Did You Change Your Nuclear Plans?’

Reporter Asks Trump in Front of Xi, ‘Why Did You Change Your Nuclear Plans?’

Michael Luciano Oct 29th, 2025, 11:04 pm

A reporter asked President Donald Trump about a sudden announcement the president made about nuclear weapons shortly before meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping .

Xi was sitting across from Trump when the reporter asked the question.

Not long before meeting with Xi in Busan, South Korea, Trump fired off a post on Truth Social regarding the U.S. nuclear arsenal. In it, he announced that the U.S. would begin restesting nuclear weapons, and boasted that the U.S. had the most in the world:

The United States has more Nuclear Weapons than any other country. This was accomplished, including a complete update and renovation of existing weapons, during my First