Trump Today: President announces he's pulling U.S. from arms treaty during campaign-style speech to

[UpInArms]

Source: Marketwatch

President Donald Trump used a speech to the National Rifle Association to announce he’s revoking U.S. support for a treaty regulating the global arms trade, as he also hailed first-quarter economic growth figures and took another swipe at Joe Biden.

U.S. OUT OF U.N. TREATY

During a wide-ranging, campaign-style speech to the National Rifle Association’s annual meeting, Trump told the gun group’s members the U.S. would quit the Arms Trade Treaty, which was signed by President Barack Obama but never ratified by the Senate.

“We’re taking our signature back,” Trump told attendees of the meeting in Indianapolis. He said he would soon notify the United Nations that the U.S. would withdraw from the treaty, which regulates trade in conventional arms, from small arms to tanks and aircraft. The NRA has argued the treaty threatens gun rights in the U.S.

It was the latest instance of Trump quitting an international treaty, with some other notable examples being the Iran nuclear deal and the Paris climate agreement.

Read more: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/trump-today-president-trumpets-gdp-as-he-says-hed-easily-beat-biden-2019-04-26?mod=mw_theo_homepage

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WTF?

[elleng]

1. War is next.

[LiberalArkie]

2. War is beneficial to most congress critters due to their stock portfolios.

[elleng]

3. Zacly

[at140]

4. War with Iran?

Putin is acting as intermediary between US & NoKo so war is unlikely with those. China is flourishing due to hundreds of Billions trade surplus with us so unlikely to begin a war. The current sanctions on major Iran oil buyers such as China & India & others, is making Iran desperate & angry. So this step by Trump could be a precursor to war with Iran. That is what Trump's buddy Netantahu wants as well.

[The Mouth]

11. Or Venezuela

Lots of oil there, closer, and he'd DARE the Russians or Chinese to intervene.

[pazzyanne]

5. He has been heading that way since he first took office.

A look at who he associates with on the world stage says a lot about who he is. Kim and Russia are forming a new alliance - why? If we are not scared yet, we are asleep at the wheel. Repeating what we already know, tRump has got to go, the sooner the better!

[muriel_volestrangler]

13. I think it's about profits for the NRA gun manufacturer backers

He is paying them for the NRA spending in the election. There are hundreds of thousands of criminals and terrorists around the world looking to buy guns, and the NRA's controllers want to sell them.

[Turbineguy]

6. So the 2nd Amendment will include

bearing nucular weapons?

[onethatcares]

7. well, yeah!

can't have the gubbermint having more weapons than its citizens.

soon they'll pass a law to require teachers to carry them in the classroom in Floriduh.

It's the Murican way.

[mpcamb]

8. Is anybody following the Russian money trail to the NRA? Why are they even around?

Their whole executive branch should be behind bars.

[Thomas Hurt]

9. invade Mexico, start building ovens...

[Freethinker65]

10. $$$$ to be made by selling guns to both sides- the good and the bad people

[Evolve Dammit]

12. Newt Gingrich said it well about 15 years ago. The "Long War" will last about 50 years, during

which time the US's chief export will be weapons and security systems (C-Span program rough quote). The MIC runs this place, the same one Eisenhower warned us almost 60 years ago. Sorry; the "congressional military industrial complex." They need the Congressional facilitators.

[Eugene]

14. Nothing must interfere with the sale of those beautiful weapons!

I used to think this kind of stupidity was superhuman. Now I dread what these people will come up with next.

[Karadeniz]

15. Trump is dangerous.

[B Stieg]

16. Like a Russian hooker...

the pResident is peeing all over anything Obama.

[PSPS]

17. "Pulling?" Just another lie. The treaty was "never ratified by the Senate."