Trump bragged about new US nuclear weapons, Woodward tape shows

Donald Trump sat for 20 interviews with Bob Woodward for the three books the Washington Post reporter wrote on his presidency. Photograph: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images

In a taped conversation with Bob Woodward, Donald Trump boasted about US nuclear weapons development.

“I have built a weapon system that nobody’s ever had in this country before,” the then president told the veteran Washington Post reporter. “We have stuff that you haven’t even seen or heard about. We have stuff that Putin and Xi have never heard about before.”