Former Vice President Walter Mondale (D) in a recent interview told a reporter he was “right to be scared” over President Trump Donald John TrumpBubba Wallace to be driver of Michael Jordan, Denny Hamlin NASCAR team Graham: GOP will confirm Trump's Supreme Court nominee before the election Southwest Airlines, unions call for six-month extension of government aid MORE’s rhetoric regarding nuclear weapons.

A reporter with MinnPost told Mondale that a report that Trump once questioned the point of having nuclear weapons if you can’t use them “kept me awake at night.”

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“And now he’s president and you still can’t sleep. And now you’d like to get under the bed,” Mondale responded. “You’re right to be scared. You’ve gotta be scared. I don’t know why you wouldn’t be scared.”

The reporter's question stems from an anecdote reported by MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” in August 2016.

"Several months ago, a foreign policy expert on the international level went to advise Donald Trump,” host Joe Scarborough said at the time. “And three times [Trump] asked about the use of nuclear weapons. Three times he asked at one point if we had them why can't we use them.”