Why can't I blow stuff up? I'm the president. |
President Donald Trump said he wanted what amounted to a nearly tenfold increase in the U.S. nuclear arsenal during a gathering this past summer of the nation’s highest ranking national security leaders, according to three officials who were in the room.
Trump’s comments, the officials said, came in response to a briefing slide he was shown that charted the steady reduction of U.S. nuclear weapons since the late 1960s. Trump indicated he wanted a bigger stockpile, not the bottom position on that downward-sloping curve.
According to the officials present, Trump’s advisers, among them the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, were surprised. Officials briefly explained the legal and practical impediments to a nuclear buildup and how the current military posture is stronger than it was at the height of the build-up. In interviews, they told NBC News that no such expansion is planned.
The July 20 meeting was described as a lengthy and sometimes tense review of worldwide U.S. forces and operations. It was soon after the meeting broke up that officials who remained behind heard Tillerson say that Trump is a “moron.”
H-o-l-y shit!
You combine this knowledge with the knowledge that Trump is itching to attack North Korea, and you have the stuff of absolute nightmares.
This is why you do not elect a crazy person to be president of the United States.
The people who helped elect Donald Trump should be considered traitors to their country and treated as such.
Ignorance can no longer be used as an excuse.
They KNEW who he was, and they cast a vote to put him in the most powerful position on the planet anyhow.
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