He wanted to use a nuke and was talked out of it a couple of times. He did get to use largest conventional weapon the US had on Afghanistan. It was the first time it was deployed - I wonder if he was talked down from using a nuke www.newyorker.com/news/news-de...www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/01...

Trump Drops the Mother of All Bombs on Afghanistan

America’s biggest non-nuclear bomb was used on one of the smallest militias in the world. That decision revealed the Trump Administration’s revised chain of command.