Washington Post: In a day of tweets, Trump suggests major change on national security issues
Before lunchtime Thursday, President-elect Donald Trump said he would expand the U.S. nuclear arsenal, upending a reduction course set by presidents of both parties over the past four decades, and called for the United States to veto a pending U.N. resolution that criticized Israel’s settlements policy.
The policy prescriptions, communicated in morning tweets, followed calls since last month’s election to reconsider the arms-length U.S. relationship with Taiwan and to let China keep an underwater U.S. vessel seized by its navy. Trump declared within hours of this week’s Berlin terrorist attack that it was part of a global Islamic State campaign to “slaughter Christians” and later said it reaffirmed the wisdom of his plans to bar Muslim immigrants.
Late Thursday, Trump suggested in another tweet that the U.S. military’s years-in-the-making plans for a new stealth fighter, Lockheed Martin’s F-35, might be reconsidered, saying he had “asked Boeing to price-out a comparable F-18 Super Hornet!”
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Update: One President at a time? For Trump, no qualms in contradicting Obama (CNN).
WNU Editor: President - Elect Trump is busy and engaged .... President Obama is vacationing in Hawaii ....the optics are obvious .... and the current White House is communicating their displeasure.
"....President Obama is vacationing Hawaii..." With the magnitude of threats we face, existential threats on multiple fronts from foreign powers not limited to ISIS, an economy that is in the toilet, a broke military which includes an old nuclear arsenal that we aren't even sure if it would work if we need it, crumbling infrastructure, a massive national debt, and this only scratches the surface of the challenges the US faces why is POTUS on vacation?!!? Mr. Trump, for all his flaws and they are many, at least has the appearance of a serious man who understands the nature of the problems faced by the nation. The current ridiculous POTUS should at least do us the dignity and himself the honorable thing by resigning from his position NOW!!
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