Remember nuggets from “inside her campaign” like she didn't know Africa was a continent, that made it into the headlines. Same with Trump and “insiders” who are making hay with “he asked three times about the use of nuclear weapons”.
I think it is when politicians on the right side of the aisle are resonating with the middle class voters the “progressives” get mad with fear, and everything is allowed.
Oh, and as to the "nuclear weapons" thing, I've conjectured that Trump likely said something along the lines of "If we're not going to use them, why do we have them?".
But I don't think he was advocating their use. I think he was questioning the spend, as in "Why did we bother spending billions on weapons we're never going to use?"