The US president insists Washington has already decimated Tehran in a “very conventional way”
Donald Trump has lashed out at a reporter who asked whether his threats to destroy Iranian power plants, bridges, and the entire civilization meant he was ready to use a nuclear weapon, dismissing the question as “stupid.”
The exchange took place at the White House on Thursday, where a journalist recalled Trump’s April 7 warning that “a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again” if Tehran did not accept his terms, a remark widely condemned as apocalyptic and potentially genocidal.
“Why would a stupid question like that be asked? Why would I use a nuclear weapon when we’ve totally, in a very conventional way, decimated them without it? No, I wouldn’t use it,” Trump said, adding that a “nuclear weapon should never be allowed to be used by anybody.”
.@POTUS to Jim Acosta’s girlfriend (@ElizLanders) when she asks one of the dumbest questions ever — if he’d use a nuclear weapon on Iran:”Why would a stupid question like that be asked?… No, I wouldn’t use it. A nuclear weapon should never be allowed to be used by anybody.” pic.twitter.com/U235920fwD
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) April 23, 2026
The US president used the occasion to once again boast about the scale of US military damage inflicted on Iran, while suggesting that any rearmament by Tehran during the ceasefire could be knocked out in “about one day” if necessary. He also said he could make a deal immediately, but wanted one that was “everlasting.”
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