{"id":542312,"date":"2026-04-21T05:32:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T05:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/542312\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T05:32:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T05:32:13","slug":"trump-blocked-from-accessing-nuclear-codes-by-head-of-us-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/542312\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump ‘blocked from accessing nuclear codes’ by head of US military"},"content":{"rendered":"

US President Donald Trump is alleged to have received push-back from a senior military person in a meeting at the White House during an attempt to access his country’s nuclear codes<\/p>\n

23:04, 20 Apr 2026Updated 23:12, 20 Apr 2026<\/p>\n

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US President Donald Trump and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Dan Caine (file image)(Image: Daniel Heuer\/Bloomberg via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

US President Donald Trump was blocked access to his country’s nuclear codes by a senior US military chief, according to bombshell reports.<\/p>\n

Retired CIA analyst Larry Johnson said on popular YouTube<\/a> show Judging Freedom that during an emergency meeting on Saturday, Trump tried to access the nuclear codes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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US President Donald Trump (file image)(Image: Allison Robbert\/For The Washington Post via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

“One report coming out of that meeting at the White House<\/a> is that Trump wanted to… use the nuclear codes<\/a> and General Dan Caine stood up and said ‘No’.”<\/p>\n

“He invoked his privileged as the head of the military, so to speak. It was apparently quite a blow-up.”<\/p>\n

“There’s some very bizarre things going on in DC.”<\/p>\n

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US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dan Caine (file image)(Image: SAUL LOEB \/ AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

The claims have not been confirmed and it is unclear what the nuclear codes would be used for should they be accessed.<\/p>\n

But it comes following reports that Donald Trump<\/a> was barred from the Situation Room by military advisors during a critical Iran rescue operation.<\/p>\n

The US President was reportedly shut out of discussions amid concerns about his furious temperament.<\/p>\n

Top administration officials believed his volatility could compromise the operation.<\/p>\n

Following the downing of a US aircraft by Iranian forces earlier this month, Trump allegedly spent hours yelling at staff in the West Wing after being haunted by memories of the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis.<\/p>\n

The US has been at war with Iran since February 28 when joint US-Israeli strikes were carried out on several key Iranian targets.<\/p>\n

Iran responded by targeting sites across the Middle East, plunging the region into chaos, and closing the critical Strait of Hormuz trade route.<\/p>\n

A short-term ceasefire has been struck, but no long-term peace solution has been confirmed.<\/p>\n

Iran, although not officially recognised as a nuclear-armed state, is understood to have uranium enrichment capabilities that could enable nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n

Again, it is unclear if or what the US nuclear codes would be used for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US President Donald Trump is alleged to have received push-back from a senior military person in a meeting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":542313,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[141,49,585,632,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-542312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-donald-trump","tag-headlines","tag-iran","tag-middle-east","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}