Donald Trump began his day sending more saber-rattling and bluster directed at North Korea as he tweeted to the world that his "first order as President was to renovate and modernize our nuclear arsenal. It is now far stronger and more powerful than ever before..."
The problem is that every executive order given by the president is made public.
Not only has Trump not taken any action on the U.S. nuclear arsenal, but it's actually President Obama who began the years-long process of updating our nuclear weaponry.
You can't "renovate and modernize" nuclear weapons in 6 months.
And we all know it.
Well, all but one of us.
Trump's empty boasts come in the aftermath of news reports saying North Korea had developed technology sufficient to arm a miniturized nuclear device on an intercontinental ballistic missile.
In a knee-jerk reaction, Trump told the world he was ready to unleash “fire and fury” on North Korea should they continue their current path.
This blind, boastful approach may work in a board room, but it's an amateur approach to world diplomacy.
My first order as President was to renovate and modernize our nuclear arsenal. It is now far stronger and more powerful than ever before....— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 9, 2017
...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!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 9, 2017
The Twitterverse was quick to fact-check the president:
If you think the entire US strategic arsenal has been renovated in 8 months, you might be a Trump supporter.— Angry WH Staffer (@AngrierWHStaff) August 9, 2017
His first order, actually, was "aimed at reversing the Affordable Care Act." https://t.co/cry0OdbaGW https://t.co/6dfWbWsXwr— David Gura (@davidgura) August 9, 2017
During his first 100 days, President Trump took no executive action(s) on the U.S. nuclear arsenal: https://t.co/GMkyhmZS8J. https://t.co/L9IuRG5v6x— David Gura (@davidgura) August 9, 2017
On a more serious note, Trump did not modernize our nuclear arsenal. Obama authorized that process to begin, and it takes decades.— Eric Geller (@ericgeller) August 9, 2017
You don't modernize a nuclear arsenal in a matter of months. It was Obama who began this work. https://t.co/eUg6xtrKRP https://t.co/rOZ7GqzRTQ— Josh Greenman (@joshgreenman) August 9, 2017
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