Donald Trump Wants To Build A Nuclear Reactor On The Moon

During his final days in office, Donald Trump signed a series of executive orders that expanded research into nuclear reactors for various space-related projects. Some of them aren't actually that bad, but one of the orders set up the process to put a nuclear reactor on the moon by the year 2027. Humans haven't been to the moon in decades, and Trump thought we could have a functioning reactor up there in just 6 years. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins discusses the absurdity of this plan.

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While Donald Trump was working to overturn the results of the 2020 election during his last few weeks in office, he was also doing other work and that other work involved passing and signing executive orders to test out nuclear reactors on the moon. Donald Trump it's no secret has always been a little bit obsessed without her space. I mean, he created the space force. He talked about colonizing the moon, possibly sending man to Mars. And in his final days in office, he signed an executive order, uh, basically giving the green light for by the year 2027. So we're only five years away. Testing out nuclear energy on the moon. Now keep in mind folks, we have not sent a human being to the moon in decades, decades, since we have sent anybody to the surface of the moon and Donald Trump had given us at the time, basically six years to have full blown nuclear energy working on the moon, or at least working enough to test it a little far fetched.

Right? Well, I gotta say there's a couple other executive orders that he did that actually aren't that bad. In fact, uh, even Biden is like, you know what? Let's go with these. Those are the executive orders, directing NASA to basically develop smaller nuclear reactors that could be used in the future to either power satellites or power rocket ships. That's not bad. I, I will 100% say I'm not completely opposed to that. But then there is another thing that he authorized that I am deeply opposed to because he also wanted to create even smaller nuclear reactors that could be put in shipping containers, zipping along us highways that could be put on trains, these little bitty nuclear reactors, because yes, we all definitely want nuclear bombs rolling around the countryside at any given day, nothing bad ever happens with 18 wheelers or trains in the United States. Right? I don't see how that could possibly go wrong. I'm of course being facetious. We all see how that could definitely go wrong. But this all gets back to Donald Trump's obsession, not without her space, but with nuclear capabilities, right? This is the guy who according to reports had suggested. What if we Nu the hurricanes before they come on shore, the United States wouldn't that destroy them? What if we had nuclear capabilities? And we just used them on some of the bad guys overseas, he once asked, you know, what, if we just nuked them, why can't we nuke them was the quote. And now he's like, what if we put

Nuclear power on the moon? What if we've got nuclear trains, nuclear trucks, nuclear satellites, nuclear space, ships, everything with this guy is nuclear. And for the life of me, I cannot understand why now again, nuclear rocket ships, you know, with small nuclear reactors, if it can be done safely to where they don't turn into giant nuclear bombs, hurdling through space, I think that's worth looking into, but I also think that we have enough problems here on earth that we shouldn't even be talking about energy sources on the moon yet. But you know, who wants to go to the moon? Who wants to go to the Mars billionaires here in the United States? Not just people like Elon Musk, but you have other billionaires, uh, people like PayPal, founder, rod Martin, who believe that there's mining opportunities out there in space. It could be a gold mine, possibly.