President Trump said the other day:
“My first order as President was to renovate and modernize our nuclear arsenal. It is now far stronger and more powerful than ever before.”
If it is, it's not due to anything Donald Trump has done. The effort began under the Obama administration (once again, Trump is taking credit for what others have done). According to Politifact:
"A week after taking office, Trump issued a presidential memorandum on "rebuilding the U.S. Armed Forces."
One sentence in this memo directs the defense secretary to initiate a new Nuclear Posture Review to ensure that the United States nuclear deterrent is modern, robust, flexible, resilient, ready, and appropriately tailored to deter 21st-century threats and reassure our allies." The review effort kicked off in April 2017, according to news reports."
Nothing has changed in our nuclear arsenal - Trump's order simply called for a report to be written. No one, not even the great Donald Trump, can upgrade a nation's nuclear program in 6 months; it takes years and a lot of money to do that.
In addition, Politifact noted the following:
"However, this wasn’t Trump’s first order as president — more than a dozen earlier executive orders and memoranda are listed on the White House website.
More importantly, asking for a Nuclear Posture Review is not unusual; it’s expected. The Defense Department’s web page for the Nuclear Posture Review describes it as "legislatively mandated.""
It is scary to see how easily Trump lies. Sometimes he lies about his lies, denying that he said something that was captured on video - and he has a crew of sycophants like Sarah Huckleberry Sanders to cover his back.
How are we supposed to trust a president who can't speak the truth?
Here is the link to the Politifact article:
http://tinyurl.com/y85bbujb
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