Trump put Putin on hold to ask aides to explain nuclear arms treaty with Russia

[babylonsister]

http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/318733-trump-denounced-arms-reduction-treaty-in-putin-call-report

Trump denounced arms-reduction treaty in Putin call: report
By Katie Bo Williams - 02/09/17 12:55 PM EST


In his January call with Russian President Vladimir Putin, President Trump condemned a 2010 nuclear arms-reduction treaty as a bad deal for the U.S., Reuters reported Thursday.

Asked by Putin about the possibility of extending the treaty capping U.S. and Russian deployment of nuclear warheads — known as New START — Trump reportedly paused to ask his aides what the treaty was, two U.S. officials and one former U.S. official briefed on the call told Reuters.

He then told Putin it was one of a number of bad deals negotiated by former President Barack Obama and that it favored Russia, before launching into a conversation about his own popularity, according to the sources.

The official White House summary of the Jan. 28 call does not mention any discussion of the agreement.

more, and jeebus...

http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/318733-trump-denounced-arms-reduction-treaty-in-putin-call-report

[chelsea0011]

1. Our world issues now depend on a 30 second update from aides

[babylonsister]

3. Aides who don't know what they're talking about either. nt

[annabanana]

2. H oly CR ap!

I thought this would be The Onion!

This shit is NOT going to help me sleep at night, I can tell you that right now.

[babylonsister]

4. I know; we are so screwed. nt

[fleur-de-lisa]

5. Pootie Poot no likey put on hold . . .

How long until he turns on the Dumpster? He doesn't need him anyway, what with President Bannon in the White House.

[liberalla]

6. SHIT

[KittyWampus]

7. You were supposed to wake me up from this nightmare.

[wordpix]

8. as they scrambled to call Obama's people who were fired/left

when Dump arrived

[GusBob]

9. Add it to the SNL skit

They are going to have to lengthen the show

[logosoco]

11. That was my first thought!

it would be so funny. Then I realized how much like an SNL skit this was , but this was real and it didn't seem as funny.

[fleur-de-lisa]

15. Yep. SNL practically doesn't have to write anything anymore.

Just let Alec Baldwin put on his angry anus face and repeat VERBATIM what Dumpy said. Voila, new sketch!

[C_U_L8R]

10. What a bozo

Trump is clueless

[Peacetrain]

12. so incredibly scary how out of touch with reality he is

and not even curious on how to do a good job..

[gratuitous]

13. It's not like we didn't know this

All through the campaign, President Trump betrayed an incredible dearth of knowledge about practically everything to do with the job he was applying for. There were plenty of people who pointed it out, and said it probably wasn't a good idea to hand the Oval Office to a blustering, blithering idiot. The popular media dismissed those concerns as so much elitist egghead palaver.

Well, now what? Is it okay to be concerned now that we know the President is appallingly ignorant and being played by the Russians like a fucking Stradivarius? At least Hillary Clinton knew what START is. But her e-mails . . .

[HipChick]

14. Why is anyone shocked? He did not come over an intelligent candidate..

[pansypoo53219]

16. who in the hell needs briefing. pfft.