Trump's Rebuke of Gabbard Signals an Uneasy Moment
The president's relationship with his director of national
intelligence has become more tense as he considers striking Iran.
Earlier this month, Tulsi Gabbard, his director of national
intelligence, had posted a three-and-half-minute video to social media describing her visit to Hiroshima, Japan, and outlining the horrors
caused by the detonation of a nuclear weapon there 80 years ago.
Speaking directly to the camera, Ms. Gabbard warned that the threat of
nuclear war remained. "As we stand here today, closer to the brink of
nuclear annihilation than ever before," she said, "political elites
and warmongers are carelessly fomenting fear and tension between
nuclear powers."
Mr. Trump berated Ms. Gabbard for the video, according to two people
briefed on the conversation. He said that her discussion of nuclear annihilation would scare people and that officials should not talk
about it.
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After the video was posted, the president also told Ms. Gabbard that
he was disappointed in her, and wished she had used better judgment,
according to one of the two people briefed on the conversation.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/us/politics/trump-tulsi-gabbard-iran.html
discussion of nuclear annihilation would scare people
Putin's nuke rhetoric is well known in the press...go talk to him.
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