Trump continued to forcefully threaten North Korea today, saying that the U.S. nuclear arsenal is
“far stronger and more powerful than ever before.”
Yesterday he warned that North Korea’s nuclear provocations would be
“met with fire and fury and frankly power, the likes of which this world has never seen before.”
He continued with the bombast in a pair of tweets he just issued saying that his administration was working to
“renovate and modernize our nuclear arsenal…
It is 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!”
The suggestion that the nuclear arsenal has been modernized ALREADY under his presidency is a bold lie. The process will take years.
According the the Washington Post, one week after he took office,
Trump issued an executive order directing the Defense Department to launch a Nuclear Posture Review, a major undertaking that will set his administration’s nuclear policy. The Pentagon has said the review, which officially began in April, is expected to be completed by the end of the year. Full modernization of the arsenal could then take many years.
The last such review was conducted in 2010 under the Obama administration. The new review is expected to guide the Defense Department as it builds new nuclear-capable submarines, bombers and intercontinental ballistic missiles in coming years.
White House adviser (and evil Bond villain) Sebastian Gorka said this morning television on Fox & Friends that the word battle with North Korea
“is analogous to the Cuban missile crisis. Don’t test this White House.”
He’s saying, ‘Don’t test America, and don’t test Donald J. Trump,’
We are not just a superpower. We were a superpower. We are not a hyperpower. Nobody in the world, especially not North Korea, comes close to challenging our military capabilities, whether they’re conventional, whether they’re nuclear, or whether they’re special forces. So this message is very clear: Don’t test this White House.”
Got it. Don’t test this White House or Donald Trump.
Earlier today, Trump retweeted links to two segments from the show recounting his pledge to respond to continuing North Korea threats as well as another about the U.S. moving two Air Force B-1B bombers to Guam, which North Korea threatened yesterday.
If this doesn’t make you nervous, you aren’t paying attention.
(Photo, YouTube; via Washington Post)
