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On 19 July 2016, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump appeared at Sun City’s Magnolia Hall in South Carolina to deliver a noontime speech. The event was an otherwise unremarkable campaign stop, save for one portion of Trump's speech (transcribed below) in which he apparently started out attempting to criticize the nuclear deal that the Obama administration negotiated with Iran but veered into a minute-and-a-half long sentence that spanned his uncle's academic qualifications, his own education, Democrats' denying Republicans' credentials, the power of nuclear technology, the number of American prisoners freed by Iran in conjunction with the nuclear deal, and the adeptness of Persian negotiators (particularly women), before circling back to how the Iranians killed us in the nuclear deal: The one thing that puzzles us the most about this sprawling statement is this: Donald Trump's late uncle, Dr. John Trump, was indeed a renowned professor at MIT, and among his many notable contributions to science were developing methods for treating cancer through radiation and studying how to radiate deep tumors without harming nearby healthy tissue. But what did he reveal to his nephew about nuclear 35 years ago that it would have been surprising for anyone to think of? My uncle used to tell me about nuclear before nuclear was nuclear and He would tell me, ‘There are things that are happening that could be potentially so bad for the world in terms of weaponry,' Donald Trump has claimed, even though the U.S. had already developed and used nuclear weapons before he was born (1946). Could anyone have really been unaware or doubtful that nuclear is powerful in the 1980s, when Dr. Trump supposedly informed his nephew of that fact?
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