THE INSIDER: Blast from the past for Trump
Nuclear Donald is behaving almost as menacingly as Nuclear Ronald once did
Nuclear Donald is behaving almost as menacingly as Nuclear Ronald once did. US President Donald Trump has said he will go it alone to restrain North Korea’s nuclear weapons programme if China doesn’t help. "If they do, that will be very good for China, and if they don’t, it won’t be good for anyone," he was quoted as saying in an interview published in the Financial Times. Trump is not saying he’ll drop the bomb on North Korea, although some who doubt his sanity think he is quite capable of doing so. Maybe he should just do a real-life recording of Ronald Reagan’s leaked sound check ahead of a radio address on August 11 1984, when the then US president threatened — jokingly, of course — to bomb the former Soviet Union, now modern-day Russia. "My fellow Americans, I’m pleased to tell you today that I’ve signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes," Reagan said when testing the sound recorder. Trump could make a Reagan-like recording for North ...
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