Trump touts US nuclear arsenal amid standoff with North Korea

[riversedge]

Source: CNN




Updated 8:59 AM ET, Wed August 9, 2017


Bridgewater, New Jersey (CNN)A day after an incendiary rebuke of North Korea, President Donald Trump touted US nuclear capabilities on Twitter, potentially further escalating a growing standoff with Pyongyang.

"My first order as President was to renovate and modernize our nuclear arsenal. It is now far stronger and more powerful than ever before," Trump wrote just before 8 a.m. ET from his golf resort here. "Hopefully we will never have to use this power, but there will never be a time that we are not the most powerful nation in the world!"

Trump was apparently referring to a Pentagon review of US policy on the use of nuclear weapons that began earlier this year, but it is unclear to what extent, if any, the US nuclear arsenal has been modernized since he took office.


But the statement came amid bipartisan concern over Trump's scaled-up rhetoric about North Korea, which came to a head Tuesday afternoon....................

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/09/politics/donald-trump-nuclear-arsenal/index.html

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The ball was in Trumps court after NK made the comment about possibly hitting Guam--and what does Trump do?? Tweets out crap about nuclear weapons. damn





No way has the US. 'renovated and modernized' our nuclear program in 7 months. Trump made a stupid error and looks foolish to the world once again!




Donald J. Trump‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump

Link to tweet

Replying to @realDonaldTrump

Your First Order as President should be to RESIGN!!!
54 replies 189 retweets 2,053 likes
Impeach Donald Trump‏ @Impeach_D_Trump 1h1 hour ago

You've been President for 7 Months. There is no way they could have greatly 'modernized' our Nuclear weapons that fast... Keep Lying...

[Eugene]

1. Is the nuclear arsenal materially different from the one he inherited on Jan. 20?

Anything coming online now would have been in the pipeline from Obama initiatives.

[Botany]

2. Under all US Presidents from Nixon on we have worked to reduce the #s of nukes ....

.... both ours and the other sides too.

We have more then enough to kill the world's population many times
over. Under President Obama world wide we had a great reduction in the
#s of nukes. Besides they are very expensive for their upkeep too.

Trump knows nothing about which he speaks.


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Donald Trump asked a foreign policy expert advising him why the U.S. can't use nuclear weapons, MSNBC's Joe Scarborough said on the air Wednesday, citing an unnamed source who claimed he had spoken with the GOP presidential nominee.

"Several months ago, a foreign policy expert on the international level went to advise Donald Trump. And three times [Trump] asked about the use of nuclear weapons. Three times he asked at one point if we had them why can't we use them," Scarborough said on his "Morning Joe" program.

Scarborough made the Trump comments 52 seconds into an interview with former Director of Central Intelligence and ex-National Security Agency Director Michael Hayden.

https://www.cnbc.com/2016/08/03/trump-asks-why-us-cant-use-nukes-msnbcs-joe-scarborough-reports.html

[CanonRay]

3. He going to run his mouth right into a war

that will kill millions.

[AtheistCrusader]

4. Wow, can't even tell the truth about his first order.

"Trump’s busy first week — or eight days — started hours after he was inaugurated, when he signed a vague order granting federal agencies the power to minimize “the economic burden” of Obamacare."

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/trump-falls-short-campaign-promises-busy-week-article-1.2958256

[Bernardo de La Paz]

5. Trump (Republicon) lies, again. Obama gave the order for a 30 year program.

Trump has claimed many things were his first order.

His first order was on health (don't) care official neglect and abuse: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/21/upshot/what-does-the-order-against-the-health-law-actually-do.html