Trump accuses Russia of stealing hypersonic missile technology from Obama administration

US President Donald Trump.

"All I do is tell the world we have the most powerful weapon, but I don't even say what kind of weapon. I hope we never have to use it. We have a supersonic missile that is five times faster than a normal missile. And Russia stole that information from the Obama administration and they created their own missile," Trump said.

The US leader also announced that the US has developed an even faster missile. "We now have the greatest weapon that man has ever created. We have revitalized our military and taken it to a level that no one thought was possible. And I say we have created the most powerful weapon known to man. That's right," the US President affirmed.

At the same time, according to Mr. Trump, this weapon is so advanced that Russia and China will be "jealous" of the United States.

"They don't know what we have, but they know that this is something that nobody has ever heard of," Mr. Trump concluded.

American Monitaur missile.

Earlier, the Washington Post quoted an excerpt from the book "Rage" by journalist Bob Woodward, in which the US President declared that the US had a nuclear weapons system that Moscow and Beijing had never even heard of. The article said that in 2017, Mr. Trump spoke of an "unprecedented" weapons system, reflecting the degree of the US's proximity to war with the DPRK. After this announcement, several unnamed sources confirmed that the US had new secret weapons systems and said they were surprised that Mr. Trump made it public, according to the book's author.

Mr Trump, speaking to supporters in Michigan, later claimed again that neither Russia nor China had weapons like the United States.