Mediaite reports:
Donald Trump is not backing down from his nuclear rhetoric. On Wednesday the President of the United States tweeted a pointed warning to North Korea, saying that the U.S. nuclear arsenal had been overhauled under his watched and that U.S. capabilities were “far stronger and more powerful than ever before.”
The tweets are a remarkable doubling down of the hostile rhetoric the president deployed yesterday from his working vacation in Bedminster, New Jersey. After news broke that North Korea had developed necessary technology to outfit a nuclear device on an intercontinental ballistic missile, Trump warned that he was prepared to rain “fire and fury” on the regime should they continue the escalation.
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
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
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
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