Trump, Testing Nukes, Terrifyingly

ONCE AGAIN I was reading headlines on a television news channel, Scripps, whith the volume down, while simultaneously listening to NPR. Once again a horrifying headline scrolled past at the bottom of the flatscreen, and once again I deliberately did not turn up the volume, because the announcer was talking about something else, and anyway, I needed no elaboration. Maybe I should turn the TV off altogether; the headlines are becoming too horrifying. this one said "Trump threatens to test nukes". I assume that at some point soon I will hear more about this latest Trump insanity. My first question is; against precisely whom is the threat directed? China? Russia? Both? As well as Trump claims to have gotten along with the Chinese head of state this week, this hardly seems like a time to issue a nuclear test threat direced at China. Not long ago Vladimir Putin made a vague threat to use nuclear weapons against Ukraine, if The United States and Europe continue to supply Zelenskyy and Ukraine enough money and weapons to defeat Russia, which they appear to be doing. More likely Trump was thinking about Russia. He and Putin have evolved into a strange sort of love hate relationship, their bromance insufficient to overcome deep longstanding subjects of disagreement between the two countries, such as, which of the two, if either, is going to be the dominant superpower on Earth during the remainder of this century, and how precisely will they and other countries work together to ameliorate climate change, to prevent nuclear war, and how to divide up the mineral resources of the planet without having wars over them. The main problem with Trump threatening to test nuclear weapons is that it highlights the somber, sobering, horrifying reality that Donald Trump, of all people, is in charge of the world's second largest and most deadly nuclear aresnal in teh world. The United States last tested a nuclear weaponry late in the administration of George Bush the first,by which time it had long since becoe evident and obvious that nuclear weapons always work, and really, never need to be "tested". When Clinton was president, or maybe it was shortly after he had left office, he made the remark that, arguably, that nobody is or could ever possibly be "qualified" to be president of the U.S., that there is no such thing as being qualified or prepared for the overwhelming job that the American presidency is. Accordingly, it is not hard to see that Donald Trump is perhpas qualified to be a ruthless, totalitarian dictator, but not qualified to be the president of the United States, or any democratic organization or country,becuase of his inherent cruelty and obsession with having total control. There are other reasons as well. Every time Trump garbles a sentence or a whole paragrpah it is painfully evident that he is intellectually unqualified due to his medicore intellect. His moral character, as we all know, is deplorable. The founders, perhaps naively, assumed that only intelligent well bred well educated men of high moral character would be elevated to the presidency. Oh, ho wrong they were,and it seems to be getting worse. Maybe I was hoping that nobody would tell Trump that the United States has several hundred nuclear weapons. Now that he seems to know, dystopian thoughts, of a madman, a psychotic tyrant, with absolute unopposed power, alone having the power to unleash nuclear war upon the world. Its a plot that can and often has made for a good,tense, exciting science fiction novel,but now that we are confronted with this surreal set of circumstances for real, in real life, I for one can and must say: it aint all its cracked up to be.