I swear, it never ends. I figured we had learned all there was to learn about the horrible things Donald Trump did while in office, but nope, we discover new atrocities almost daily.

And today we learned that Trump wanted to use nuclear weapons. And not just on hurricanes. I know, it shouldn’t be a surprise. But, it should be, shouldn’t it? That ANYONE would so cavalierly want to use such a horrific weapon to eviscerate a country, including all the innocent people who would surely die? And all the people who would survive, but live horrific lives of burns and cancer, and the inability to have children. Ugh, this man.

On Thursday we learned that Trump discussed the idea of using a nuclear weapon against North Korea while he was newly in office in 2017, and suggested he could blame the attack on another country, according to a new book on Trump’s time in office.

The discussion came during a period of heightened tension between the United States and North Korea, and seriously alarmed then-Chief of Staff John Kelly, the afterword of the book detailed. The new portion was part of the New York Times’ Michael Schmidt’s book “Donald Trump v. the United States,” which will go on sale in paperback on Tuesday.

The new section of the book includes a more extensive look at Kelly, who served as Trump’s chief of staff from July 2017 to January 2019, after serving spending the first 6 months of Trump’s presidency as Secretary of Homeland Security.

During the beginning of Kelly’s two-year stint as CoS, Trump warned that North Korea would be “met with fire and fury and frankly power, the likes of which this world has never seen before,” which most Americans remember watching. Trump also delivered an address to the United Nations general assembly that same year, where he claimed he would destroy North Korea if it did not stop its military threats.

President Trump vows America will respond to North Korean threats with "fire & fury" in a warning to the rogue nation pic.twitter.com/UaE2rPkZ6f

— FOX & friends (@foxandfriends) August 9, 2017

Trump also used tweets to goad the hermit kingdom, even claiming at one point that he had a “larger nuclear button” than leader Kim Jong Un. However, Kelly was more concerned about Trump’s conversations that happened in private.

North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un just stated that the “Nuclear Button is on his desk at all times.” Will someone from his depleted and food starved regime please inform him that I too have a Nuclear Button, but it is a much bigger & more powerful one than his, and my Button works!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 3, 2018

“What scared Kelly even more than the tweets was the fact that behind closed doors in the Oval Office, Trump continued to talk as if he wanted to go to war,” the new afterword claimed, according to NBC who got a copy of the book. “He cavalierly discussed the idea of using a nuclear weapon against North Korea, saying that if he took such an action, the administration could blame someone else for it to absolve itself of responsibility.”

Kelly tried to discourage Trump from using a nuclear weapon against North Korea, by focusing on the fact that people would still know it was the U.S. if such an attack occurred. Other military leaders also attempted to dissuade Trump, even citing the innocent civilian toll, which did not sway Trump at all, which is simply horrifying. Discussions about the economic consequences of such an action temporarily swayed Trump, but he quickly reverted back to the idea of war with North Korea multiple times.

Schmidt also claimed that White House aides were worried that Trump would have conversations on unclassified phones, when it was a well-known fact that North Korea sought a spy on the White House. However, there has been no evidence that North Korea was successful in that attempt.

Eventually Kelly convinced Trump that he would be the “greatest salesman in the world” if he was able to establish a diplomatic relationship with North Korea, rather than just be seen as a military threat. And that’s the route Trump took, with photoshoots and all.