60 Percent of Americans
Don't Trust Trump with His Big Nuclear Button
Sixty percent of Americans do not trust President Donald Trump
with his authority over the nation's nuclear arsenal—the world's largest and
most sophisticated—and, according to the new ABC News/Wall
Street Journal poll out Tuesday, more than half worry he might
order a nuclear strike "without justification."
As ABC reports: "Distrust fuels anxiety of
a baseless attack. Among those who don't trust Trump with the nuclear button,
88 percent are concerned the president might spark a nuclear attack without
justification, and 55 percent are "very" concerned about it.
Those translate to 52 and 33 percent of all adults, respectively."
Those translate to 52 and 33 percent of all adults, respectively."
Last month, as Common Dreams reported, Trump bragged that "his" nuclear button was "much bigger & more powerful" than that of North Korea's.
The new poll out Tuesday surveyed a national sample of 1,005
adults and was conducted in both English and Spanish by landline and cell phone
last week between January 15 and 18, 2018.
Results have a margin of sampling error of 3.5 points.
Results have a margin of sampling error of 3.5 points.