(CNN) As summer turns to fall and the East Coast prepares for the heart of hurricane season, it's nice to know that President Donald Trump has a plan for how to combat these terrifying natural disasters: USING LETHAL FORCE!!!

In the latest "Wait, is this an Onion headline or is this reality" moment of a presidency chock full of them, Axios reported in late August that the President has repeatedly raised the possibility of dropping nuclear weapons into hurricanes to dissolve them before they ever endanger land.

"They start forming off the coast of Africa, as they're moving across the Atlantic, we drop a bomb inside the eye of the hurricane and it disrupts it. Why can't we do that?," Trump reportedly asked aides during one hurricane briefing. The response to the idea was, uh, muted, according to Axios. "You could hear a gnat fart in that meeting," one source in the room told Axios. "People were astonished."

Trump, for his part, denied the story -- using his customary third person. "The story by Axios that President Trump wanted to blow up large hurricanes with nuclear weapons prior to reaching shore is ridiculous," he tweeted amid the G7 meetings in France. "I never said this. Just more FAKE NEWS!" ( Axios reporter Jonathan Swan , who wrote the story, responded this way to Trump's tweet: "I stand by every word in the story. He said this in at least two meetings during the first year and a bit of the presidency, and one of the conversations was memorialized.")

Let's just say, hypothetically, Trump did float the idea of nuking hurricanes because, knowing him, he almost certainly did. Might it actually work?

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