Dear Donald, Here's a Primer For When You're Ready to Talk U.S. Nukes

During an interview with the Washington Post editorial board earlier this week, Frederick Ryan, the newspaper’s publisher, asked Donald Trump if he would consider using “battlefield” or “tactical” nuclear weapons against ISIS. The Republican presidential frontrunner replied, “I don’t want to start the process of nuclear,” before urging the Post‘s editorial board to “remember…I’m a counter-puncher. Rubio hit me. Bush hit me. When I said low energy, he’s a low-energy individual, he hit me first.”

Trump gave an off-topic response to what was really something of a trick question—one that Trump flunked “bigly.” Ryan’s question about the advisability of using tactical or battlefield nuclear weapons against ISIS operated on the premise that the U.S. actually has battlefield or tactical nuclear weapons that it could use against the group. You’d think that as both a really smart person and a self-proclaimed nuclear weapons enthusiast—the power, the devastation, is, in fact, very important to Trump—his exacting intellect would have sliced through Ryan’s misdirection.

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