Trump Asked Advisers If China Was Hitting US With ‘Hurricane Gun’

According to a new report from Rolling Stone, in the early days of his presidency, Donald Trump openly asked his advisers if China was manipulating weather to create storms in the United States, and also wondered if we should attack China to get them to stop this imaginary assault. People in the White House, according to the sources who spoke to Rolling Stone, began to refer to this as the "hurricane gun" incident, but didn't bother to come public with their claims until now. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins discusses this.

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According to a new report that came out yesterday from rolling stone, where their reporters spoke with sources. They say, who of course spoke on the condition of anonymity, but had connections to the white house. They may have even been in the white house in the early days of the Trump administration. They said that Donald Trump openly asked his military advisors and as security advisors, if China had developed a weather weapon to create storms and send them over to the United States an incident by the way that these staffers came to refer to as the hurricane gun incident, because Donald Trump genuinely believed, they said that China was manipulating what, not just manipulating the weather, but manipulating it. And then somehow sending it to the United States. I have to read this. Uh, this is from one former Trump official says it was almost too stupid. For words, I did not get the sense that he was joking at all in certain circles within the upper ranks of Trump land, the then leader of the free world's query became such a remarkable occurrence that it became known among some as the hurricane gun thing.

Here's another quote I was present, uh, when he asked if China made hurricanes to send to us, uh, Trump wanted to know if the technology existed, one guy in the room responded not to the best of my knowledge, sir. I kept it together until I got back to my office. I, I, I do not know where the president would've heard about that. He was asking about it around the time, maybe a little before he asked about Ning hurricanes. And I'm sure we all remember that, right? The reports came out. This is actually, while Donald Trump was president, you know, that he wanted to nuke the hurricanes, cuz he thought maybe if we disrupted the weather system enough with a bomb a no, they might be able to break it up and we wouldn't have to deal with a hurricane. But um, even if you did that, I mean, you know, China would just send another one right there behind it, right?

If they have the technology to do that as somebody that has lived my entire life along the Gulf coast here, um, hurricanes are a very real threat, right? Every hurricane season, usually for us in this area, you know, typically between August and October, that's our busy season with hurricanes. Things are scary, right? One gets into the Gulf of Mexico. We don't know where it's gonna go. I know they have their predictions, their predictions shift every two hours. So everybody along the Gulf coast, from Texas to the Florida keys, we're just kind of sitting there hoping it's not us and praying for those who do get it. But those hurricanes that we worry about, including by the way, the ones that go up the Eastern seaboard, they're not coming from China.

Okay. China's over there. The hurricanes are coming from over there. So that's, I, I, I don't, I don't know how a hurricane gun would work, but I'm assuming they'd probably have to do it over water, which would be the Pacific ocean, not the Atlantic ocean where our hurricanes come from that usually come off. You know, the, the Cape of Africa, the winds there create these currents and all of that. The, the circulation, it, it's actually very easy to follow. If you're in this area, we know all about it, but they're not coming from China.