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Trump firings cause chaos at US nuclear weapons agency

newsMay 19, 2026221,920

President Trump removed senior officials at the National Nuclear Security Administration, creating leadership gaps that disrupted day-to-day operations. Multiple departures left key NNSA posts vacant and forced delays in weapons life-extension programs and security upgrades. Because the NNSA oversees warhead maintenance and nuclear material security, the staffing void raised concrete safety and readiness concerns for the U.S. nuclear arsenal and could complicate deterrence planning.

Aaron Rupar
@atrupar.com

Trump on high gas prices: "This is peanuts. I appreciate everybody putting up with it for a little while. But I don't even think about. What I think about is you can't let Iran have a nuclear weapon."

100621d ago
Kelly239

This is peanuts, when it's not your own money.

Ltl247

He should definitely keep telling us all how little he thinks about the prices we're having to pay for his mistakes.

vonpinto.bsky.social35

His arrogance is OOZING!! So callous!! So out-of-touch!! So entitled!!

Oeishik 🐸33

It is NOT PEANUTS for regular people! youtu.be/V9ToYXdAbQw

Chris⚖️Justice29

No skin off his back, as he robs the treasury. Trump regime can't control Iran's weapons program. It's another con job.

Rhon🌻✌️☮️📎🦋👂🙉28

He had never pumped a gallon of gas in his life.

Middlerage24

TONE DEAF. Tell us more about your Ballroom & your $1.8 Billion IRS payoff you POS!

Lisa Pierce20

But they were 'obliterated' last year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

CALI GIRL15

Proof this man has never pumped gas or paid for a tank of gas in his entire life. I knew these heartless billionaires never cared about the rest of us but this is a little over the top.

🗽🌊 KJ 🌊🗽14

My rage is so incandescent I'm surprised I haven't spontaneously combusted. Shut this motherfucker up.

Saint Sherman - The Ultimate Patriot13

It's been 75 days of losing this 2 week war and counting. 1 Chinese ship is allowed to pass the strait again today. Gas will be $6 next month.

Steve11

Billionaire who keeps cheating the American people to get even more billions says your high gas prices are peanuts. 🙄 Translation: "He doesn't give a shit about you."

JJDiane 🐝10

I think about the fact that they didn’t and don’t have any and now I can’t afford to go anywhere this summer.

Dee9

Which they didn’t have before. AND our gas prices weren’t thru the ceiling. But you were saying…?

web_rant9

Gas prices are "peanuts" when you're playing the market for millions. bsky.app/profile/atru...

teamevozilla.bsky.social8

Let him walk from DC to Mar-a-Lago if he thinks its peanuts.

Independent Voter7

Peanuts? The price of a tank of gas has doubled for me in the past 3 months. What does Trump care anyway? He’s never had to pay for shit in his life.

Pere Jes7

What I think about is perhaps we shouldn't let the deranged man presiding over our country have access to a nuclear weapon either.

Judy Weston6

Peanuts to a THIEF who pilfered BILLIONS from the American people to line his personal coffers.

Roy Batty6

I am so happy for the Republican rural constituent base of giant truck driving people driving hundreds of miles a day

🦋🇨🇦Sarrah🇨🇦🦋6

And still 40% of the country believe he is a living god. There is no fixing that. It’s a cult of stupid. You absolutely cannot fix stupid. 🤦‍♀️

Joel Klebanoff 🇨🇦6

Trump: I don’t even think about it because American taxpayers cover all of my expenses. 🤡

Tigh Cosi5

Performing ‘The Emperor’s New Clothes’ as Marie Antoinette. He’s displaying quite the range

spotted-coach7.bsky.social5

Peanuts. He doesn’t pay for gas.

Renee Clark5

He doesn't care about the taxpayers who fund his travel expenses.

Dr. Tea, Cake, & Revolution.5

Entertaining a delightful and oddly American fantasy in which a huge, corrupt, fascist regime is brought crashing down by the single word: “Peanuts.”

Max the Silent5

He’s really doubling down on not giving a shit about anyone else in all this lol

Catherine4

U.S. citizens are paying for his gas. Why would he have to think about it?

Angelique Huisman4

He doesn’t give a shit that the entire world is paying for his ego-war.

Wes Walser4

Of course you don't think about it. Your orange ass gets chauffeured everywhere you go. I'd bet my life that you've never pumped a gallon of gas ever.

ProudBlue💙4

Quote tweaked just a bit: “…I don't even think..”

Inthemountains4

eat a bag a dicks you fat POS.

Alicia4

We can’t F-ing afford peanuts, a-hole!

Lea Leander 4

If Fort Knox were my personal piggybank, I wouldn't think about it either. But then I don't give a two shits about Iran having a nuclear weapon.

golfgate.bsky.social3

well he just accelerated their pursuit of one

Steph K3

Say that to the red hats in the back, they didn't hear you the first 10 times you said it. The rest of us heard it the first time you said you.

We Need The Senate3

I want to hear him spell out how he is going to make sure the Iranians don’t obtain a nuclear weapon. Intermittent bombing and assassinations forever? Invasion and occupation?

Gaius Faelis Juvenalis3

really beating that gong to death isn't he, I feel like I'm listening to one sentence from Reagans missile gap speech, over, and over, and over...

🇺🇸💙🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦Kygrannyof12🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦💙🇺🇸3

Of course he doesn't think about it, he gets free transportation on the taxpayers' dime so why should he care

The Frankenmuppet🇨🇦2

Iran not only didn't have nuclear weapons before Donald ripped up Obamas nuclear deal, the United Nations were allowed to pull up on-site and investigate Iran if they even thought they were enriching uranium to weapons grade levels. Then Donald ripped it all up because his fail ego couldn't take it

Jade Jurek2

Which, prior to Trump, they weren’t.

henrysmom59.bsky.social2

Says the man who’s never been to a grocery store or gas station in his sad little life.

Lordgreystoke612

What the orange idiot clearly does not get is that republicans have been “worried” about Iran get a nuclear device for TWENTY YEARS. Guess what. They still DONT have one. Trump got played for the fool by Israel and now AGAIN he doesnt care about the negative impact its have on Americans.

jcs77.bsky.social2

Of course he doesn't "think" about it. He doesn't fill up the tank of the Beast. Hasn't filled up a gas tank for decades if he ever did. As for the nuclear weapon excuse, it's lost it's integrity. Ppl have stopped buying that excuse. He needs to move on to the future but I'm not holding my breath.

Earl Verdant2

When the cars in his presidential motorcade need gas, he isn't paying for it. Taxpayers are, but that is nothing compared to what we are paying at the pump. Just one more shining example of how he doesn't give a crap about any of us.

nycgeo2

He doesn’t buy gas. His voters do.

Paul2

If only there were some agreement previously in place that prevented Iran from constructing nuclear weapons that would have prevented the need for this unauthorized war in the first place

Nathaniel Gardner2

There was no nuclear weapon.

Epstein files or bust 🇺🇦2

He’s a dumb guy, but we’re the fucking idiots entertaining his bullshit.

Charlie Mas2

What he doesn't mention is that his war has done nothing to impede Iran's progress towards a nuclear weapon. What he doesn't mention is that a war was the exactly wrong way to achieve that goal. What he doesn't mention is that he is cut off from diplomacy because he's a notorious liar and cheat.

SayNoToFascism2

Why stop bombing if they still have nuclear capability? If they don’t have nuclear capability, then what are we negotiating? If you want a deal where they promise not to develop nuclear capability, then why rip up the JCPOA? Help me out MAGA.

georgiabluedevil.bsky.social2

I am more worried that he has access to them. Not that Iran was about to.

Jade 🪶2

The only thing that’s peaNUTS is how anyone still believes anything coming out of that lie-hole.

Stuart Hemingway2

Talking of peanuts brings back memories of normality when Jimmy Carter was President.

Spence Reynaldo2

It's "peanuts" when you make billions grifting and stealing from American taxpayers. When you work an honest job and pay your bills like a non-Trump, it is very much not "peanuts."

Assholes do vex us2

They didn't have one and weren't especially close. There was a treaty in place to prevent such a circumstance that Trump exited. Fuck this asshole.

Rege
@rjserinko.bsky.social

He really thinks the nuclear weapon talking point is PR gold.

62421d ago
julesp1.bsky.social18

47 years the Republicans have been using that. Scare those old white people in their gated communities

Stevens9

Everything they do, they try and normalize. In other words, "just get used to it" is the m.o. Unsurprising, coming from an ajudicated rapist, sexual predator, misogynyst, etc.

August West6

"I want to negotiate the same non-nuclear agreement like the one I tore up in my first term because it had Obama's name behind it, and I could not handle that."

Some Guy in Kent6

He’s just a phenomenally stupid individual. Speaks as if nuclear weapons are a finite resource to be guarded from Iran The science is well understood at this point, any sufficiently advanced nation can enrich uranium, the US can’t bomb them all It’s all so painfully stupid

mf TOM HANK6

And the irony of course is that Iran and all other non-nuclear states now view obtaining a nuclear arsenal as essential to their survival

Sean Kelly5

It *does* slap if you're stupid. If you find yourself in the conservative-leaning corners of the Web you'll find the dipshits who want to cosplay as reluctant realpolitik types going "this pain at the pump is the price of our solemn duty to protect the world" etc.

PencilSketchy4

"No other President has ever taken steps to stop our enemies from acquiring or deploying nuclear weapons. That's why the United States has been under constant nuclear bombardment since 1944."

David Bailey3

Really wish that literally anyone would push back by pointing out that almost the first thing Trump did after getting sworn in 9 years ago was to tear up a deal Obama negotiated that would have guaranteed a nuclear-free Iran much more effectively than Trump's current floundering around ever will.

allison levin3

if that really had been his priority he wouldn't have torn up the agreement we had.

Lea3

8 months ago, he was claiming he had decimated Iran's nuclear program, then got furious that officials were saying he set them back maybe 6 months. Any sane person knows the guy is a bullshitter by his own words, no "fake news" needed.

calamity jim2

It's part of his never-left-the-80s mind. They used to talk constantly about how terrible it would be if those crazy rug merchant terrorists managed to get nukes.

tripeee.bsky.social2

Just another Dumb MAGA talking point on repeat. In meantime, GOP Congress dismantling democracy in background.

tclark36.bsky.social2

@gregsargent.bsky.social and @davidfaris.bsky.social mentioned just yesterday how Trump bungled into giving Iran a better "nuclear" weapon that you can actually use.. shutting down the Strait of Hormuz. newrepublic.com/article/2105...

The laws of physics will be enforced2

He should have thought about that before ripping up the JCPOA

dechentsomo.bsky.social2

But North Korea can have one. And Pakistan and…

IckyTree2

He thinks the goal of war is to kill people. And nukes kill, like, everyone, right? So what could be more important?

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