Trump claims nuclear war is a greater threat to the world than climate crisis

Donald Trump has downplayed the threat of the climate crisis in his latest interview with Fox News, insisting that international unrestand the danger of nuclear war are of far greater concern, declaring: “The only global warming that matters to me is nuclear global warming.”

The Republican presidential candidate and convicted felon sat down with the conservative network’s anchor Sean Hannity to lambast Joe Biden for emphasising environmentalism over the threat of nuclear war.

“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 won’t matter. This place won’t matter, nothing will matter because practically nothing is going to be here anymore,” Trump told Hannity, outlining his nightmarish vision of man-made apocalypse.

“The level of power, the level of power with the weapons and weaponry – that’s real weaponry, that’s worse than the weaponry we were talking about a little while ago – this is the ultimate… This is obliteration. Maybe world obliteration.”

He continued: “And we have a man that is not capable of even discussing it. He talked the other night about… that nuclear doesn’t matter so much. What matters is, think of this, global warming.

“The only global warming that matters to me is nuclear global warming because that’s the real deal. He said it’s an existential threat. He loves the words ‘existential threat’. That global warming is an existential threat.

“And he doesn’t know why. What is it? It’s weather… and I’m all for that, you know what, in a certain way, in a very powerful way, I’m an environmentalist. I want clean air, I want clean water. But this is not the existential threat.”

Trump concluded: “Tomorrow, we could have a war