Trump defends that he never proposed

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Donald Trump has once again denied that he suggested using nuclear weapons to stop hurricanes, after Axios revealed that he had raised that idea several times at a meeting of the National Security Council. However, according to the news portal Axios , Trump's suggestion to bomb hurricanes is transcribed in minutes of the Council session. President Trump tweeted Tuesday: "The Fake News is still trying the absurd story that I wanted to use nuclear weapons to blow up hurricanes before they reach shore. It's ridiculous, it's never happened." "I stand by every word of the article." Jonathan Swan, the Axios journalist who wrote the article, tweeted this on Monday.

Discover more stories on Business Insider Spain . The president of the United States, Donald Trump, has denied an article that told how the American president had proposed using nuclear weapons to stop hurricanes. But the news portal, Axios , counters that there are minutes from a National Security Council meeting that show that he did make this proposal. "I just returned to Washington from France  Middle East Phone Number List  after the successful G7 summit, and I find that the fake news is trying to continue perpetuating the absurd story that I wanted to use nuclear weapons to blow up hurricanes before they reach the coast," the US president tweeted this Tuesday. "This is ridiculous, it has never happened." Read more: Trump would have suggested using nuclear bombs to prevent hurricanes from reaching the United States Despite Trump's denial, Axios — the first portal to publish the information — said that the president's suggestion to bomb hurricanes appears transcribed in minutes of the National Security Council.



He does admit that the document did not mention the idea of ​​using nuclear bombs, but the American president did propose, at least, bombing hurricanes. Axios published this Monday that the president even suggested on several occasions to National Security Council officials to bomb these atmospheric phenomena with nuclear weapons, according to sources close to the meeting. "It's not that anyone found the idea of ​​bombing hurricanes scandalous. They simply collected the president's exact comments," a source the portal does not identify tells Axios . A senior official declined to comment to Axios : "We do not comment on private conversations the president may or may not have had with his national security team." A satellite image shows the eye of Hurricane Irma, which reached.