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On Aug. 25, 2019, Axios reported that President Trump has suggested multiple times to senior Homeland Security and national security officials that they explore using nuclear bombs to stop hurricanes from hitting the United States. Citing sources who have heard the president's private remarks and been briefed on a National Security Council memorandum that recorded those comments, Axios described two of those occasions in detail: Reacting to the report, Trump declared it to be fake news, suggesting the claim that he wanted to blow up large hurricanes with nuclear weapons prior to reaching shore was ridiculous. In response, Axios reporter Jonathan Swan, who reported the story with Margaret Talev, tweeted that he stood by what he wrote, reiterating Axios' sourcing: Snopes cannot independently verify the claims of anonymous sources cited in the Axios story, or claims contained within documents we have not seen. As such, we rank the claim Unproven. This rating could change if corroborating information becomes public.
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