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Whistleblower explains the real reason Trump wants to use a nuclear weapon
A President Who Treats the Bomb Like a Status SymbolMiles Taylor, a former Department of Homeland Security deputy chief of staff in Trump’s first term, says he watched Trump talk about nuclear weapons “like they were presidential toys,” and argues the fixation is not new. The reporting ties Trump’s recent Iran threats to the same old pattern: escalation as performance, violence as leverage, and apocalyptic risk treated as a personal mood.The Power Is Not the RhetoricThe central fact is not Trump’s language. It is Trump’s office. The president holds actual institutional power over war…
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