On Thursday President Donald Trump spoke about his intent to accomplish global denuclearization. This is a topic he has been interested in for some time now, referencing this goal as one from his first term in office. Trump’s anti-nuclear comments closely follow French President Emmanuel Macron’s national address in which the Parisian ‘Sun King’ lauded his country’s nuclear weapons and indicated his intent to expand the arsenal. A candidate for Canada’s prime ministership recently expressed her intent to enlist French and British nuclear weapons as component of Canada’s military ‘protection’ against the United States.
“It would be great if everybody would get rid of their nuclear weapons,” Trump said, replying to a reporter in his Oval Office. “It would be great if we could all denuclearize.”
🇺🇸 “The power of nuclear weapons is crazy – the denuclearisation would be incredible”
— Concerned Citizen (@BGatesIsaPyscho) March 7, 2025
Trump revealing he desires to denuclearise all Nuclear warhead armed Countries & started the process with both Russia & China. pic.twitter.com/chzxqpCnnO
“And I was very far along the process with Russia, despite the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax, which didn’t make it easier, it was a total hoax, total rigged hoax by some bad people, but despite that I was very close to having a program with Russia – denuclearization – and we’re going to get China,” Trump said. “I spoke to President Xi about it. And he would have been very happy to have gone along with it. But bad things happened like an election that was rigged happened, and so we had to come back four years later.”
Trump reiterated that denuclearization would be “incredible.”
During his 2024 campaign Trump said that his goal is complete and total denuclearization, not just nuclear arms reduction. This is the same phrasing the President used Thursday.
🚨 TRUMP: “I TRIED TO GET RID OF ALL NUCLEAR WEAPONS”
— Lauren Lee (@sheislaurenlee) October 9, 2024
Why isn’t this trending everywhere?! This should be the main talking point of every show, every day until the election.
TRUMP TRIED TO COMPLETELY DENUCLEARIZE THE WORLD. 🤯
“We were very close to a deal. Denuclearization.… pic.twitter.com/9J3LqbCWSi
“…the power of nuclear weapons is crazy,” Trump said Thursday, indicating he is aware of the true scale of nuclear and thermonuclear bombs.
Only days after assuming the Presidency, Trump spoke at the World Economic Forum where he discussed his goal of global nuclear arms reduction.
Trump’s statements from late January came on the heels of a dangerous autumn characterized by near-world-ending conventional missile exchanges and nuclear proliferation from both sides.
The U.S. has 1,770 deployed warheads while Russia has 1,710. China possesses about 500 nuclear warheads with plans to expand that to 1,000.
“According to a recent nongovernmental estimate, Russia has around 1,710 deployed nuclear warheads based on a triad of strategic delivery vehicles roughly consisting of 326 intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), 12 ballistic-missile submarines (SSBNs) with 192 submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs), and 58 strategic bombers,” the Congressional Research Service said. “Russia has not exchanged official data with the United States about the structure of its strategic nuclear forces since 2023. Russian officials have stated, however, that Russia continues to abide by New START limits, thus maintaining rough parity with U.S. strategic nuclear forces. According to one nongovernmental estimate, the United States has around 1,770 deployed nuclear warheads.”
Nuclear stockpiles have been reduced previously, showing that Trump’s goal is very possible to accomplish.
In the late 20th century stockpiles were vastly larger. At its peak in 1986 the USSR had over 40,000 warheads. The U.S. had its largest amounts in the mid-1960s with over 30,000 warheads.
“Russia and the U.S. were previously bound to an arms control pact called New START that required them to reduce their deployed strategic nuclear warheads, but Moscow suspended its participation in 2023 due to Washington’s military support for Ukraine. Russia has nevertheless said that it will continue to abide by the limits set out in the treaty, and President Putin has repeatedly stressed that the use of nuclear weapons is a ‘last resort’,” RT said.
The AP recently described Macron as the Parisian ‘Sun King’ following the French leader discussing his nuclear arsenal, a power he often brags about. Fascinatingly, nuclear weapons produce temperatures greater than the surface of the sun while thermonuclear weapons also produce a process called nuclear fusion, the same process that takes place inside of stars.
“Macron reinforced his image of the imperial French ‘Sun King’ and his bid to become the dominant voice on Ukraine and European security,” The AP said in February.
Those who survived actual nuclear explosions have detailed the most horrific accounts of the aftermath.
Democrat President Harry Truman laughed during his speech announcing the dropping of the first atomic bomb used against civilians. Truman’s jovial outburst happened at 2:28 into the video.
Nearly 80 years after Truman appeared to enjoy nuking civilians, President Trump lashed out at Ukrainian Dictator Vladimir Zelensky for “gambling with World War Three.”
