Republican Congressman Tim Walberg suggested dropping a nuclear bomb on Gaza ‘like Nagasaki and Hiroshima’ in order to ‘get it over quick’. His comments have been widely condemned and his office insists it was ‘metaphorical’.
“It should be like Nagasaki and Hiroshima,” Walberg is heard saying in a video that was uploaded to X, the former Twitter. Move on from it quickly.”
In response to a query concerning US intentions to construct a floating pier off Gaza’s shore in order to provide aid, Walberg added that the US “shouldn’t be spending a dime on humanitarian aid.”
Walberg, a conservative Republican, seemingly made the comments at a town hall event earlier this week, and he has since been slammed by fellow politicians.
Michigan Sen. Darrin Camilleri wrote on X that Walberg had been “endorsing and calling for a complete genocide in Gaza.”
Rep. Dan Kildee added that Walberg’s comments were “horrific” and “shocking.”
“It is an indefensible position to argue against humanitarian aid for the people of Gaza while also calling for the wholesale massacre of the Palestinian people,” he wrote on X.
In an attempt to retract his remarks, Walberg stated in a statement that was published on X that “I used a metaphor to convey the need for both Israel and Ukraine to win their wars as swiftly as possible, without putting American troops in harm’s way.”
