Former President Donald Trump stated that he was far more concerned about the possibility of nuclear war than global warming in an interview with Sean Hannity Thursday morning.The presumptive Republican presidential nominee sat down with the Fox News host to discuss the election and his recent guilty verdict in a New York court over hush money payments to Stormy Daniels, but he also discussed what a hypothetical second Trump term would look like, particularly on foreign policy.Trump, who has consistently downplayed the potential impact of global warming in the past, brought up the comparison when discussing President Joe Biden’s rhetoric on climate change.He said: “I love this country. I don’t want to see this country get into a nuclear war and be so badly damaged. What we say won’t matter, this place won’t matter, nothing will matter because practically nothing is going to be here any more. The level of power in weaponry, that’s real weaponry. That’s worse than the weaponry we were talking about a little while ago.”This is obliteration, maybe world obliteration, and we have a man is not capable of discussing it. The only global warming that matters to me is nuclear global warming. Because that’s the real deal.”He [Biden] said it’s an existential threat. And he doesn’t know why! What is it, it’s weather. And in a certain way, and in a very powerful way, I’m an environmentalist. I want clean air, I want clean water. But this is not an existential threat.”Tomorrow, we could have a war that could be so devastating that you could never recover from it. Nobody can, the whole world won’t be able to recover from it. And he’s talking about something happening 400 years from now.”Newsweek contacted Donald Trump’s office for comment via email.During the 2024 campaign trail, Trump has been especially critical of Biden’s foreign policy, and has claimed that the Russia-Ukraine conflict would not have started if he had won a second term in 2020. He has also suggested that he would be able to settle the conflict within 24 hours if he were made president again.More than two years of war in Ukraine have intensified concerns about a potential nuclear confrontation between Russia and NATO countries that support Kyiv. High-ranking Russian officials have hinted at the possibility of nuclear conflict, and Poland has volunteered to host NATO nuclear weapons following Moscow’s transfer of tactical nuclear arms to Belarus, a key Kremlin ally.CNN reported in March that the Biden administration had put plans in place in the event that Russia used nuclear weapons in Ukraine.In an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper in 2022 said he didn’t believe Russian President Vladimir Putin would use nuclear weapons.The U.S. and Russia have the the largest nuclear arsenals of any other nuclear-capable countries.During Trump’s presidency, the U.S. withdrew from the Paris Climate Agreement, removing international standards for carbon emissions and clean energy investment. Biden reentered the U.S. into the agreement in the early days of his administration.Biden has repeatedly highlighted climate change as one of his top long-term priorities, with significant investments in clean-energy technology and higher targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.Do you have a story we should be covering? Do you have any questions about nuclear weapons or climate change? Contact [email protected]
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