DONALD J. TRUMP NEVER MAKES A MISTAKE: JUST ASK HIM!

……Trump and his Sec. of State, Rex Tillerson

  

Three advisers have confirmed that Trump said he wanted a “10 fold increase in nuclear devices”.

 

The following are three Tweets from our president with an explanation as to the real truth in the president’s Tweet.

 

·       My first order as President was to renovate and modernize our nuclear arsenal. It is now far stronger and more powerful than ever before....

 

This is both the truth and a bare-faced lie.  It is true it was one of the president’s first orders, but the order was actually a request for a review on the status of the current US Nuclear Arsenal.  That review is still in process, therefore, we are not, “now far stronger and more powerful than ever before”.

 

·       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!

 

There is nothing to support that the United States will, or will not, remain as the strongest and most powerful nation in the world.  However, under the poor leadership of this president, anything is possible.

 

·        Fake @NBCNews made up a story that I wanted a "tenfold" increase in our U.S. nuclear arsenal. Pure fiction, made up to demean. NBC = CNN!

 

Once again, another Trump presidential  bare-faced lie.

 

It has been well reported that last Summer, President Donald Trump said he wanted a nearly tenfold increase in the US nuclear arsenal.  This was said during a gathering of the nation’s highest-ranking national security leaders, and this is according to statements from three officials who were in the room.

 

All this came about because Trump was shown a slide that charted the steady reduction of US 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, among Trump’s advisers, were the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.  Officials had briefly explained the legal and practical issues regarding a nuclear buildup.  In addition, how the current US military is stronger today than it was at the height of the buildup. In following interviews, they told NBC News that no such nuclear expansion is/was planned.

 

This was the meeting that we are now aware that the Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, called the president a “Moron”.  This Tillerson statement on Trump also came after Trump’s bizarre speech to the 2017 Boy Scout’s Jamboree.  The Trump speech covered everything from politics; of course his wonderful and record setting 2016 election; (which it wasn’t), and a group of what the press has since come to call; “29 cringe-worthy Trump statements and miss-statements.”

 

So, why would the Sec. of State call his boss a “Moron”?  (And BTW:  just what does the word “Moron” mean?

 

Let’s take this last pert first.  Here’s the origin of the word “Moron” which was originally a medical term: "Moron" was coined in 1910 by psychologist Henry H. Goddard from the Ancient Greek word “moros”, which meant "dull" and this was used to describe a person with a mental age of between 8 and 12. It was once applied to people with an IQ of 51–70.  This is one degree superior to "imbecile" (IQ of 26–50) and superior in two degrees to "idiot" (IQ of 0–25). The word moron, along with others including, "idiotic", "imbecilic", "stupid", and "feeble-minded", were formerly descriptors in the psychological community, but they are now seldom used by psychologists.  Moron is used more commonly as an insult than as a psychological term.

OK, so now we fully understand what the Sec. of State had called his boss.

 

Well, it must then be understood that the comment could have been made because Rex Tillerson was at one time an Eagle Scout and he was a former president of the Boy Scouts of America.  That’s not to mention that Rex’s father, was also a former president of the Boy Scouts.  Tillerson was seen shaking his head while listening to the president’s speech to the Boy Scouts.

 

But getting back to Trump and the US Nuclear Arsenal.  You must remember that this is the presidential candidate that did not understand what is referred to as the US Nuclear Triad.

 

Hell, even I knew that the US Nuclear Triad was the ability of the United States to attack its foreign enemies from three different operations.  That includes our ground based nuclear missiles, the nuclear submarine based missiles and with stealth bombers and their airborne delivered nuclear bombs/missiles.

 

Senator Bob Corker’s comments that “what the president does and says could initiate the start of World War III”, that is very true.  Trump’s comments towards the young ambitious leader such as Kim Jong Un of North Korea, they could un-lease a nuclear confrontation with a country where it’s leader has continually convinced its people that it could actually win a nuclear confrontation with the United States.

 

In addition, Trump’s additional feelings against the Iranian Nuclear deal sets him poised to set off a fresh confrontation with Iran by not certifying that Tehran is in compliance with the 2015 nuclear deal.

 

The reality is that any increase in America’s nuclear arsenal would not only break with decades of a US nuclear doctrine, it would also violate the international disarmament treaties signed by every president since Ronald Reagan.  Trump needs to understand that he is the US president, not a dictator.

 

Nonproliferation experts have also warned that such a move to increase the arsenal would set off another global arms race.

…Here is a file photo of an inert Minuteman 3 missile in a training launch tube at Minot Air Force Base, N.D.  The process of the president issuing a nuclear attack is rehearsed 3 times, every 24 hours.  It only takes 7-10 minutes to launch the first ICBM.

 

“If Trump were to increase the nuclear numbers, the Russians would match him, and the Chinese” would ramp up their nuclear ambitions, Joe Cirincione, a nuclear expert and an MSNBC contributor, said, referring to the president.

 

“There hasn’t been a military mission that’s required a nuclear weapon in 71 years,” Cirincione said.  

 

But it must be understood that in one of Trump’s first session to be brought up to speed on our military readiness, Trump had asked his advisers three times:  “Why do we have so many nuclear devices if we can’t use them?”  The president obviously hasn’t been curious enough to read up and understand the concept of “nuclear deterrent”.   The one man in the world that could easily start WWIII, and there’s no system in place to stop him, if he were to push the button.

 

Here is what those attending said occurred at the meeting where Trump wanted to increase the US nuclear arsenal:

 

Officials present said that Trump’s comments on a significantly increased arsenal came in response to a briefing slide that outlined America’s nuclear stockpile over the past 70 years.

 

“The president referenced the highest number on the chart, about 32,000 in the late 1960s, and he told his team he wanted the US to have that many now.” 

 

The Pentagon is currently undergoing the long-planned posture review. Modernizing the arsenal is a step presidents continuously take that doesn’t put the U.S. in violation of treaty obligations, Cirincione said.

 

“You don’t get in trouble for modernizing," he said. "You do get in trouble if you do one of two things: if you increase the numbers. The strategic weapons are treaty limited. Two, if you build a new type of weapon that is prohibited by a treaty."

 

It’s unclear if it was the Pentagon briefing or the Boy Scout’s speech that prompted Tillerson to call the president a “moron” after the meeting broke up.  But the officials who attended the two-hour session said the meeting included a number of tense exchanges.

 

But once again, the president has lied when he called out NBC as offering “Fake News” that he had wanted a “10 fold increase in nuclear devices”.  Three sources confirmed that it was something that Trump commented on during the meeting.

 

Did he later change is mind after hearing his advisors?  Possibly. 

 

But why not just admit that he changed his mind after receiving more info?

 

Oh that’s right.  Trump would then have to admit that he made a mistake, and Donald J. Trump never lies and never make a mistake.  Just ask him.

 

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