In an attempt to rescue record low presidential approval ratings, the Trump administration dropped the “mother of all bombs” on Thursday, the largest non-nuclear weapon in the US military arsenal.

“The assault on my approval ratings will go on no longer,” Trump said during his press briefing. “This tremendous weapon will help in our fight against these very unfair ratings.”

The “Mother Of All Bombs”

This is the first usage of the MOAB in combat, formally known as the GBU-43/B Massive Ordinance Air Blast. The enormous bomb weighs approximately 21,000 pounds and has a blast radius of over a mile. It explodes in the air before impact, creating pressure waves that can collapse tunnels and caves — and allegedly elevate approval ratings.

“After I launched those Tomahawk cruise missiles at Iraq — I mean Syria — we saw a huge jump in my approval ratings,” Trump said. “I called [National Security Advisor] McMaster while eating some very beautiful chocolate cake and told him, ‘Hey, what else have you military folks got?’”

President Trump’s ratings saw a brief jump last week after he launched 59 cruise missiles at the Syrian Shayrat airbase in response to chemical weapons attacks perpetrated by the Syrian government.

The missile strike, which was priced at roughly $60 million, boosted Trump’s ratings from 40.4% to a peak of 41.6%.

“Did anyone ever see Barack Obama use a MOAB?” Trump said to reporters. “He had 8 years to do so, it only took me 8 weeks.”

Donald Trump’s current approval ratings | via FiveThirtyEight

It is still too early to tell if the administration’s plans to increase their ratings will be successful, but polling experts like Dave Millan of Gallup believe we should see some boost in the following days as MOAB becomes the trending topic across the social media landscape.

“It’s kind of hard to precisely measure how much of a bump comes from which particular kind of ordinance,” Millan said, developer of the Gallup Presidential Approval Ratings Poll. “The Tomahawk missile weighs about 3,000 pounds but inflicts relatively little damage, while the MOAB is a massive weapon that really shows off America’s military muscle. The people should love this.”