# Trump Tweets Apparent Call for More U.S. Nuclear Weapons **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 22, 2016, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tweets-apparent-call-for-more-u-s-nuclear-weapons/775411 "2016-12-22T23:57:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2016, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tweets-apparent-call-for-more-u-s-nuclear-weapons/775411/21 "2016-12-23T02:38:42Z")
> [@Fuji](#): > > You’ve got to be fucking kidding me. In your mind, this qualifies as a reasoned response? Are we in GD all of a sudden? The guy doesn’t need a reasoned response in the Pit. As for the OP, as said above this was in response to Putin. What’s Trump supposed to say? OK, you build more, I’m gonna cut our arsenal? ---
**Author:** ![Fuji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a9a28c/32.png) [@Fuji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fuji)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2016, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tweets-apparent-call-for-more-u-s-nuclear-weapons/775411/22 "2016-12-23T02:55:03Z")
> [@aldiboronti](#): > > Are we in GD all of a sudden? The guy doesn’t need a reasoned response in the Pit. > > As for the OP, as said above this was in response to Putin. What’s Trump supposed to say? OK, you build more, I’m gonna cut our arsenal? All righty then, fuckface. In response to your query, I’d vote for some unnamed third option such as, “How about Trump’s not even talking about nuclear strategy on his oh-I’m-sure-it-could-never-be-hacked favorite media outlet?” ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2016, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tweets-apparent-call-for-more-u-s-nuclear-weapons/775411/23 "2016-12-23T03:01:35Z")
> [@Disgruntled\_Penguin](#): > > Probably the most interesting conversation I had with with a Trump supporter before the election was with a young cow-orker who was a Trump supporter. > > It was pretty enlightening. He was of Mexican descent so it opens with him asking me if I honestly felt like Trump was racist against Mexicans and I said honestly, no I didn’t. > > I asked him why he supported Trump and he turned out to be a one issue voter. He wanted Trump because “He’d give America it’s balls back.” > > I went down my long laundry list on why I did not support Trump and he agreed with almost every point I made sometimes taking a while to get there( silently - I didn’t push ) and a couple of times he just shook his head but after each point he repeated “but we need Trump, America needs to get it’s balls back.” > > Cool story bro I know but it explains why I’m not shocked at all to see others may be excited to see this as good as it is a step in a direction that they can see as America getting it’s balls back. Anyone who is depending on that sack of shit to GIVE them back their balls, never had them to begin with. ---
**Author:** ![Fuji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a9a28c/32.png) [@Fuji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fuji)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2016, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tweets-apparent-call-for-more-u-s-nuclear-weapons/775411/24 "2016-12-23T03:11:36Z")
> [@HeweyLogan](#): > > If you were the diplomat/pres what what would you do? No idea. However, I’ve a pretty good chance of improving things on Trump’s proposal by merely following the “Not-Post-on-Twitter-Before-Talking-to-the-DoD” strategy. Just a hunch, there though, admittedly. > [@](#): > > Then again I don’t hate Trump. Me either. Waiting to see what happens after Jan 20, but for now, not very optimistic. And yes - even though I don’t live Stateside anymore, it’s still my business, 'cause this shit is global. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2016, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tweets-apparent-call-for-more-u-s-nuclear-weapons/775411/25 "2016-12-23T03:13:11Z")
> [@Bayard](#): > > I don’t think there should ever be a “tweet stage” in discussions about nuclear arms… …or any other substantive issue for that matter. Unfortunately we now have a 4-year old boy as president, someone with no self control and less judgment than a jar of peanut butter. And for all the people who keep saying, " He hasn’t DONE anything yet!" tweeting this kind of incendiary bullshit counts as “doing something.” ---
**Author:** ![MindsEye\_Watering](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindseye_watering/32/3619_2.png) [@MindsEye\_Watering](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MindsEye_Watering)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2016, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tweets-apparent-call-for-more-u-s-nuclear-weapons/775411/26 "2016-12-23T03:24:00Z")
> [@Bayard](#): > > I don’t think there should ever be a “tweet stage” in discussions about nuclear arms. Full disclosure: I fucking hate Trump. But I don’t think it’s my pure partisan hate that makes me say I’d rather the President think things through a little better before spouting off about FUCKING NUKES! THIS. ---
**Author:** ![MindsEye\_Watering](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindseye_watering/32/3619_2.png) [@MindsEye\_Watering](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MindsEye_Watering)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2016, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tweets-apparent-call-for-more-u-s-nuclear-weapons/775411/27 "2016-12-23T03:29:11Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > I don’t hate him either. Rather, I find him disgusting for all the reasons you just listed plus a few others. I also find the fools who voted for him disgusting. Trump’s a complete buffoon and an incompetent sadly elected by other buffoons who voted out of fears they imagined. As I’ve said before: The most profoundly stupid and uninformed voters in America put the most spectacularly unqualified candidate into the world’s most powerful office. What could go wrong? ---
**Author:** ![steronz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steronz/32/11765_2.png) [@steronz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steronz)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2016, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tweets-apparent-call-for-more-u-s-nuclear-weapons/775411/28 "2016-12-23T03:29:23Z")
Jesus fucking christ. ---
**Author:** ![MindsEye\_Watering](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindseye_watering/32/3619_2.png) [@MindsEye\_Watering](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MindsEye_Watering)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2016, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tweets-apparent-call-for-more-u-s-nuclear-weapons/775411/29 "2016-12-23T03:34:23Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > And for all the people who keep saying, " He hasn’t DONE anything yet!" tweeting this kind of incendiary bullshit counts as “doing something.” He’s certainly setting the tone of his presidency, isn’t he? When he really IS the president is all of his Tweet diarrhea going to stop? ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2016, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tweets-apparent-call-for-more-u-s-nuclear-weapons/775411/30 "2016-12-23T03:35:52Z")
> [@MindsEye\_Watering](#): > > He’s certainly setting the tone of his presidency, isn’t he? > > When he really IS the president is all of his Tweet diarrhea going to stop? Not a chance. ---
**Author:** ![Disgruntled\_Penguin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@Disgruntled\_Penguin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Disgruntled_Penguin)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2016, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tweets-apparent-call-for-more-u-s-nuclear-weapons/775411/31 "2016-12-23T03:40:33Z")
> [@SteveG1](#): > > Anyone who is depending on that sack of shit to GIVE them back their balls, never had them to begin with. Maybe but I found it refreshing to talk to a Trump supporter who didn’t just buy his bullshit whole cloth. Like I said, it was refreshing. There’s someone trying to be a critical thinker. He is young. He has time to grow into it. ---
**Author:** ![MindsEye\_Watering](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindseye_watering/32/3619_2.png) [@MindsEye\_Watering](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MindsEye_Watering)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2016, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tweets-apparent-call-for-more-u-s-nuclear-weapons/775411/32 "2016-12-23T03:43:10Z")
> [@MindsEye\_Watering](#): > > He’s certainly setting the tone of his presidency, isn’t he? > > When he really IS the president is all of his Tweet diarrhea going to stop? How can he **not** know, at this point, that ANY communication about ANY subject from The President Of The United States, regardless of medium, is IMPORTANT and can have global and potentially dire consequences? MOST ESPECIALLY about nukes/Weapons of Mass Destruction. Jesus. Nuclear weapons? ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2016, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tweets-apparent-call-for-more-u-s-nuclear-weapons/775411/33 "2016-12-23T03:48:23Z")
On the plausible theory I’ve seen from others that Trump’s tweets are mainly distractions, what significant but under-reported developments in the Trump transition and/or Trump legal troubles were there today? Did somebody else accuse him of sexual assault? Did one of his kids promise somebody an ambassadorship? ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2016, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tweets-apparent-call-for-more-u-s-nuclear-weapons/775411/34 "2016-12-23T03:54:19Z")
> [@Disgruntled\_Penguin](#): > > Maybe but I found it refreshing to talk to a Trump supporter who didn’t just buy his bullshit whole cloth. Like I said, it was refreshing. There’s someone trying to be a critical thinker. He is young. He has time to grow into it. _Maybe_ he has time to grow into it. If he’s not vaporized. ---
**Author:** ![Disgruntled\_Penguin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@Disgruntled\_Penguin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Disgruntled_Penguin)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2016, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tweets-apparent-call-for-more-u-s-nuclear-weapons/775411/35 "2016-12-23T03:57:03Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > _Maybe_ he has time to grow into it. If he’s not vaporized. Maybe. He might even have time to grow out of using hyperbole too. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2016, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tweets-apparent-call-for-more-u-s-nuclear-weapons/775411/36 "2016-12-23T03:59:24Z")
**[Trump]** We’re going to make new nukes. They are going to be the best nukes anyone has ever made. We’ll have the greatest nukes, ever. These nukes are going to be so great that the other nukes are going to be jealous. These nukes are going to be so great AND shiny. Our shiny nukes are going to be the shiniest nukes ever. With these great shiny nukes we will win every war ever, since history was invented. We will win so much war that war will get tired of winning. [/Trump] ---
**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2016, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tweets-apparent-call-for-more-u-s-nuclear-weapons/775411/37 "2016-12-23T04:01:50Z")
> [@MindsEye\_Watering](#): > > As I’ve said before: > > The most profoundly stupid and uninformed voters in America put the most spectacularly unqualified candidate into the world’s most powerful office. > > What could go wrong? And of course the most intelligent and informed voters chose otherwise? It must be such a grand feeling, basking in your own intellect and knowing how superior you are to those who think differently. God forbid you could actually be mistaken in some of your opinions. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2016, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tweets-apparent-call-for-more-u-s-nuclear-weapons/775411/38 "2016-12-23T04:02:59Z")
Does anyone even know what prompted this? I mean, with most of his tweets, it’s because someone said something about him or something happened that he felt he had to tweet about. Was this just some random thought that transited the space between his ears? ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2016, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tweets-apparent-call-for-more-u-s-nuclear-weapons/775411/39 "2016-12-23T04:06:14Z")
Cheeto tweeted that the F35 is too expensive and he wants Boeing to price out a Sopwith Camel I think it was, to replace it. Should save us billions. I’d love to see Twitter ban that mofo. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2016, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tweets-apparent-call-for-more-u-s-nuclear-weapons/775411/40 "2016-12-23T04:29:07Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > … > I’d love to see Twitter ban that mofo. So would I. It would be just like the Farting Hitler video, but bigger, better and more shiny. It would be bigly yuge. And the Twitterverse would rejoice. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tweets-apparent-call-for-more-u-s-nuclear-weapons/775411.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tweets-apparent-call-for-more-u-s-nuclear-weapons/775411.md?page=3)