Majority distrusts Trump with nuclear authority (POLL)

Source: abc

Six in 10 Americans don’t trust Donald Trump to handle his nuclear authority responsibly, and just more than half in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll are concerned he might launch a nuclear attack without justification.

Those results follow the president’s heated rhetoric toward Kim Jong Un, which have included threats of “fire and fury” and boasts by Trump that he has a “much bigger” nuclear button than the North Korean leader’s.

They also accompany a range of other U.S. public doubts about Trump in this poll, produced for ABC by Langer Research Associates, including an even split in opinion on whether or not he’s mentally stable.

Just 38 percent in the national survey trust Trump to act responsibly in handling his authority to order a nuclear attack on another country, a figure much like his overall job approval rating, 36 percent -– the lowest on record after a president’s first year in office in data back 72 years.



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