On Friday morning, the entire panel on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" expressed dismay at an anecdote in an upcoming book from Puerto Rico's former governor that Donald Trump glibly talked about using nukes during a conversation in 2017.
In Ricardo Rosselló's book The Reformer’s Dilemma, the former governor described "surveying damage done to the island after Hurricane Maria with the former president when Trump commented, 'But I tell you what … If nuclear war happens, we won’t be second in line pressing the button.'"
Reacting to the report, the Washington Post's Eugene Robinson pointed out that presidents "have the nuclear suitcase trailing you around, and you can push the button and I think, when we talk about this, I think people need to realize, that you know, you're entrusting this vast power to one of these two men. Now you could argue that, well, both have successfully managed not to get us into nuclear wars during their presidential terms. Nonetheless, it does focus you on the stability and frankly the sanity of the two candidates."
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Using that as a leaping-off point, MSNBC political analyst Elise Jordan contributed, "This is a continuation of Trump's fascination with nuclear power. He's long fancied himself to be some nuclear specialist because he had an uncle who was some kind of scientist at MIT, and he's talked about it since the '80s and he's bragged — you know he's scared countless journalists in the run-up to the election."
"He seems to have a little bit of understanding that it causes widespread decimation and destruction, but he still just really doesn't grasp that," she continued. "And it shows his fundamental instability and that he is crazy which is what voters judge him on versus Biden and his age."
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