President Donald Trump has floated the idea of using nuclear bombs to weaken hurricanes before they reach U.S. land, according to an Axios report on Sunday, prompting many on social media to note that it sounds a whole lot like a plotline from the “Sharknado” sci-fi comedy film series. .
“Our president wants to implement policy ideas he got from watching ‘Sharknado 3,’ this is not a drill,” Susan Simpson wrote. And she’s right.
On Friday, an unnamed individual who attended a White House briefing about hurricanes told Axios that the president asked during the meeting, “Why don’t we nuke them?”
“They start forming off the coast of Africa, as they’re moving across the Atlantic, we drop a bomb inside the eye of the hurricane and it disrupts it.