President Trump has boldly reasserted his wild claim about America’s capacity to create a global nuclear catastrophe.
The 79-year-old was speaking to reporters at the White House on Wednesday when he mentioned the results of his “tremendous” meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping last week.
“My doctrine would be denuclearization because we have enough nuclear,” Trump said, before bragging that the U.S. has the most nuclear weapons of any country, with Russia second and China third.
He noted that China are “way behind” but would be equal to Russia within five years because “they working overtime on nuclear weapons.”
Trump then added, “We could blow up the world 150 times, and there’s no need for this.” The president said he had spoken to Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Puti

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