America Gave Trump The Bomb...

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by: Colorado Pols

A mushroom cloud.

And as Politico’s Madeline Conway reports, President-elect Donald Trump just figured what that means:

In a series of impromptu statements about nuclear weapons, Donald Trump is threatening to upend longstanding U.S. nonproliferation policy, even as his advisers contradict him and muddy his intentions.

The president-elect had alarmed and perplexed some experts and others in Washington when he pronounced, without offering more details, via Twitter on Thursday that the U.S. “must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes.”

He further escalated his call on Friday, telling the MSNBC program “Morning Joe” that he is fine with the country taking part in an “arms race” if it puts the U.S. in a stronger position against foreign adversaries…

Trump’s advisors rush to contradict him, but the damage is done:

After the remark was reported on MSNBC, though, incoming Trump press secretary Sean Spicer pushed back and insisted that the remarks came from a “private conversation” with “Morning Joe” host Mika Brzezinski. While he told the “Today” Show’s Matt Lauer that “there is not going to be” an arms race, he told CNN that Trump is not going to “take anything off the table,” either.

The problem with Sean Spicer’s contradictory assurance that there will not be an “arms race” is pretty simple: Trump’s remarks about “greatly expanding” the nation’s “nuclear capability” could be all it takes to start one. There’s really nothing more we can say about this latest extremely irresponsible statement from the President-elect of the United States–since it’s hardly the first thing he has said that has shocked not just America, but the whole world. Upending decades of longstanding policy of working to reduce the threat of a nuclear war, not increase it, is just the latest jaw-dropper.

But if this kind of talk from our incoming President doesn’t frighten you, we honestly don’t know what can.

6 thoughts on “America Gave Trump The Bomb…”

Zappatero says:

December 23, 2016 at 10:21 am

Make McConnell, Ryan, Gardner, their media, their high-profile supporters that are saying this is all OK own this freak.

And that means MIchael Bennet has to forget the bipartisan bullshit that he hides behind and he needs to become partisan. Like now.

This kinda thing can start WWIII, and if Bennet needs a full-time staffer to craft responses to every Trump tweet, then hire one.

Trump will have very little accountability on this…….until they impeach him……..and we have to make R's own that, too. (Because they've been trying to make up for Nixon since Nixon.)

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skeptical citizen says:

December 23, 2016 at 10:23 am

Will the Tweeter-elect still be permitted to Tweet wildly after the inauguration?

I understand that the President's cell phone use must be restricted due to security concerns.

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1. marklane1351 says:
  
  December 25, 2016 at 1:27 pm
  
  A private conversation occurs in private. It is not broadcast over the airwaves or on tv
  
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JohnInDenver says:

December 23, 2016 at 12:16 pm

Can you imagine the reactions from his nominees for various foreign policy and national security posts? Do you suppose their confirmation hearings will look into how they propose to conduct business in the world of Trump's twittering? Can we be certain they will consider any nondisclosure agreement Trump wants them to sign not binding on requests for testimony or statements on their resignation?

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notaskinnycook says:

December 24, 2016 at 9:45 am

It wouldn't surprise me if more than one of those designees backs out, now that they see how belligerent his foreign policy ideas are.

And someone definitely needs to pry the damned Blackberry out of his iron grip.

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1. Duke Cox says:
  
  December 24, 2016 at 1:39 pm
  
  Reducing his ability to blare his bombast will not reduce his insanity, skinny. He is a power drunk megalomaniac bent on proving to all the world that he has a bigger penis/bank account than all those smart people who have put him down for years. He is…the Trump
  
  The refrain I keep hearing from the growing number of Trump supporters who are increasingly suffering from buyers remorse is…
  
  "I didn't really think he would do it…" or, "He said he was going to, but isn't now…"
  
  I want to send a personal thank you to the Trump voters who visited this pestilence upon us. You remind me of just how stupid humans can be…
  
  Is winning really the only thing that matters, PissAnt?
  
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