Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said the United States should have its own Iron Dome system, similar to what Israel has, to defend against incoming missiles.
Trump made the remarks on Monday night during a conversation with X owner Elon Musk on X Spaces while talking about some of the top threats facing the U.S. and the world.
During the conversation, Trump said that the possibility of a nuclear war was a much more serious threat to the future of humanity than climate change — a claim often regurgitated by Democrats and the media.
“I think people underrate the risk of World War III,” Musk said. “When looking at the risk of global thermonuclear warfare, it’s game over for humanity. And you know, it’s something that people have I think, after the end of the Cold War, people have become complacent about, but they actually have forgotten that there are currently a lot of nuclear missiles that are targeting parameters for the United States.”