Not yet in office, and he's already fomenting a new nuclear arms race

[bigtree]

ThinkProgress ‏@thinkprogress 59m59 minutes ago
Trump appears to subtweet Putin as both express desire to beef up nuclear capabilities http://thkpr.gs/5d95c32a08e0

[niyad]

1. hey, drumpfy, how many nukes do you think we need? we already have the largest arsenal in

the entire freaking world!!

[hatrack]

20. 2nd-largest, actually - though we're hot on Russia's tail

More than "enough", though . . .



Nine countries in the world possess a total of 15,375 nuclear weapons. The United States and Russia account for 93 percent of them. Since their peak in the mid-1980’s, global arsenals have shrunk by over two-thirds. More countries have given up weapons and programs in the past 30 years than have tried to acquire them. The direction is positive, but when you are fleeing a forest fire it is not just direction but speed that matters. Ploughshares Fund is committed to reducing nuclear threats before it is too late.

http://www.ploughshares.org/world-nuclear-stockpile-report

[skylucy]

2. Holy Sh** I thought he would wait til he took office before he started

working on bringing about a nuclear holocaust. Guess not.

[forgotmylogin]

3. He's even giving Obama "suggestions"

He was pressuring Obama to veto a bill.

Obama don't need your help, Chee-toh.

[mopinko]

8. yeah, somebody should tell him we have one president at a time.

i know obama has mentioned it a few times, but...

[forgotmylogin]

9. Just because Obama gave you the courtesy of some one-on-one on the job training

does not mean you're so brilliant that you've surpassed the teacher, dumbhead.

[mopinko]

11. no shit.

ps, maybe you should put your old user name in your sig, unless you are enjoying your new identity.

[forgotmylogin]

17. Not sure if I even remember it exactly.

I posted back during the W era, and lurked mostly during Obama's term so anything I wrote is probably way buried. I suspect it might have been a smush of my real name, which I'd prefer not to use going forward.

[mopinko]

23. ok then. well welcome to the addictive part of du.

mouthing off!!!

[Cha]

19. Yeah, I wonder which asshole advisor is whispering that in

in his ear?

[MrScorpio]

4. Looks like we should all look forward to being outlived by glow in the dark cock-a-roaches.

[Eliot Rosewater]

5. I responded about this in another thread, but am now realizing

these comments are surely tied to some government contract he will execute where somehow in the process his financial world will be enriched.

Obviously he is a dangerous and unstable person and should not be allowed access to a single handgun let alone thousands of nuclear weapons, but follow the money, always.

[lunatica]

14. Yup. Just follow the money and you'll find the Trump brood at the end of that trail

[Wellstone ruled]

6. Trump has zero clue.

What he has done so far today is,one,help his friend in Russia,major Uranium producer,two,help his friend and Exxon,Uranium interests .

Con Job is clueless.

[CrispyQ]

7. I'm still stunned that this vulgar man-child is going to be president.

[tclambert]

10. It's a very Christmas-y message.

During this season of peace and goodwill, it's important to ring those jingle bells and rattle those sabers.

[n2doc]

12. He obviously has no clue

Maybe someone could tweet him some relevant facts, like the number and variety of nukes we have, and maybe more importantly, the trillions of dollars we have already spent or are planning to spend in its upkeep and modernization.

[silverweb]

13. Sure. It's good for business.

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]Arms manufacturers will love this. It'll be good for the construction industry, too. Think about all those home bunkers people will start having built again, just like back in the "good old days" of the Cold War.

[spanone]

15. the end of timers must love this mentally insane person

[yuiyoshida]

16. I am starting to believe he is a hateful and stupid man...

and his MAKING AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, means, he wants to fill pockets with as much money as he can get away with.

[Cha]

18. Yes compare Trump and Putin statements on nukes, both delivered within last 24 hours

https://twitter.com/sarahkendzior/status/811980543130636288/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

[hatrack]

21. Oops!

.

[forgotmylogin]

22. I'm starting to suspect...

That DT is freshly immersed in this new world of politics, and possibly not cognizant of a good part of existing political and world history that one gets from non-business college courses and experience in elected office. As he learns stuff, his ego believes that he is the first person to have these sorts of ideas and he posts stuff like this, completely oblivious that a good part of everyone else is decades ahead of his understanding.

It's like coming in on page 10 of a thread and going "Hey I know what we should do! (posts duplicate idea about something brought up on page 3, discussed on page 4-6 and moved away from on page 7, fully believing nobody has thought of this yet)

I think he's just begun the reactionary 70s-80s Cold War phase of thinking. A good part of the world knows what's up with nukes and is standing just past the "come to its senses" finish line waiting for the Don to catch up.

(I suspect he also does not realize that the Cold War was with his best buddy Russia...))

[AmericanActivist]

24. "A man you can bait with a Tweet cannot be trusted with nuclear codes" HRC nm