Donald Trump has threateningly reminded Russia that the US has the most nuclear weapons in the world.
Trump, speaking at a rally in Quantico, Virginia on Tuesday, was discussing the use of nuclear warheads, when he boasted to Moscow about America’s nuclear capabilities.
He said: ‘Frankly if it does get to it, we have more [nuclear weapons] than anyone else. We have better, we have newer [weapons]’, the US president bragged.
‘But it’s something we don’t ever want to even have to think about.’
Trump also admitted that ‘we were a little bit threatened by Russia recently’ and said the US sent a nuclear submarine after Russian Deputy Chairman of the Security Council Dmitry Medvedev made a veiled threat against his administration back in August.
‘Based on [Medvedev’s] mention of nuclear… I moved a submarine or two over to the coast of Russia – just to be careful, because we can’t let people throw around that word’, Trump said.
The President’s remarks come after Putin’s ally told Trump last month to remember that Moscow possessed Soviet-era nuclear strike capabilities of last resort.
Trump, in a Truth Social post, had singled out Medvedev for sharp criticism after he said that Trump’s threat of hitting Russia and buyers of its oil with punitive tariffs was ‘a game of ultimatums’ and a step closer towards a war between Russia and the US.
‘Tell Medvedev, the failed former President of Russia, who thinks he’s still President, to watch his words. He’s entering very dangerous territory!,’ Trump wrote at the time.
President Donald Trump speaks to a gathering of top U.S. military commanders at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2025, in Quantico
Trump said he had sent nuclear submarines to the coast of Russia. File photo: Handout photo released by the Colombian National Navy shows a view of a US nuclear submarine during military exercises 70 nautical miles (130 kilometers) off Cartagena, Colombia, on February 28, 2022
Medvedev responded by saying that Trump’s statement showed that Russia should continue on its current policy course.
‘If some words from the former president of Russia trigger such a nervous reaction from the high-and-mighty president of the United States, then Russia is doing everything right and will continue to proceed along its own path,’ Medvedev said in a post on Telegram.
Trump should remember, he said, ‘how dangerous the fabled ‘Dead Hand’ can be,’ a reference to a secretive semi-automated Russian command system designed to launch Moscow’s nuclear missiles if its leadership had been taken out in a decapitating strike by a foe.
Medvedev has emerged as one of the Kremlin’s most outspoken anti-Western hawks since Russia sent tens of thousands of troops into Ukraine in 2022.
Kremlin critics deride him as an irresponsible loose canon, though some Western diplomats say his statements give a flavour of thinking in senior Kremlin policy-making circles.
Trump also rebuked Medvedev in July, accusing him of throwing around the ‘N (nuclear) word’ after the Russian official criticised US strikes on Iran and said ‘a number of countries’ were ready to supply Iran with nuclear warheads.
‘I guess that’s why Putin’s ‘THE BOSS”, Trump said at the time.
