If anything, Trump taking office should move us farther away from midnight. Obama was being unnecessarily provocative toward Russia (which remains the only nation with the nuclear stockpile to wipe us off the map) while Trump has a better relationship with Putin. The scientists are just being petulant.
Closer to midnight?
Or maybe the fact that our President has a lifelong history of being relentlessly vindictive against anyone who opposes or offends him in the slightest… that might be seen as a risky thing to combine with nuclear weapons?
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