# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![Crybaby\_Boobie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crybaby_boobie/32/545_2.png) [@Crybaby\_Boobie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crybaby_Boobie)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2016, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tweets-apparent-call-for-more-u-s-nuclear-weapons/775411/61 "2016-12-23T17:00:39Z")
> [@Sterling\_Archer](#): > > If Donald were to tweet classified info, we have to impeach right? Anyone else think that is only a matter of time? He’d have to read it or hear about it first, so I wouldn’t hold my breath. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2016, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tweets-apparent-call-for-more-u-s-nuclear-weapons/775411/62 "2016-12-23T17:20:07Z")
> [@HeweyLogan](#): > > Maybe even a… DEATHSTAR!!! > > Whoaaaaaaaaa > > It was in response to Putin talking about Russia expanding its own nuclear arsenal. That’s very stupid of Putin. It is unwise to copy stupid things. ---
**Author:** ![hotflungwok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/edb3f5/32.png) [@hotflungwok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hotflungwok)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2016, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tweets-apparent-call-for-more-u-s-nuclear-weapons/775411/63 "2016-12-23T17:51:41Z")
Does Trump own or hold share in any businesses that specialize in making large underground self-contained vault-like structures? I’m asking for a friend. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2016, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tweets-apparent-call-for-more-u-s-nuclear-weapons/775411/64 "2016-12-23T18:21:33Z")
> [@Sterling\_Archer](#): > > If Donald were to tweet classified info, we have to impeach right? Anyone else think that is only a matter of time? No. The Republicans would excuse him if he sold Alaska back to the Russians for $10 and a promise to let him build hotels in Moscow. The Republicans have sold the country out at this point. They are willingly in cahoots with a hostile foreign government, all because it benefits their party and power. ---
**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, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tweets-apparent-call-for-more-u-s-nuclear-weapons/775411/65 "2016-12-23T19:38:01Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > The Republicans have sold the country out at this point. They are willingly in cahoots with a hostile foreign government, all because it benefits their party and power. [Trump receives ‘very nice’ Christmas letter from Putin](http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/23/politics/trump-putin-christmas-letter-russian-relations/index.html) > [@](#): > > A very nice letter from Vladimir Putin; his thoughts are so correct," Trump said in a statement. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2016, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tweets-apparent-call-for-more-u-s-nuclear-weapons/775411/66 "2016-12-23T19:55:22Z")
> [@Sterling\_Archer](#): > > I don’t even know what the tweet is supposed to mean. Can we just what Trump even is trying to communicate here without getting all partisan? Probably hopeless right? Ok. “Until the world comes to its senses regarding nukes” – what does that mean in Donald’s brain? Until they just accept that the US is the only country that should have nukes? That’s the only way I can parse it, but it’s the opposite of what he said before: that MORE countries should have nukes. [Good NY Times attempt to parse it here. (Three possibilities are suggested for each word or phrase).](http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/12/22/world/americas/trump-nuclear-tweet.html) Of all the dangerously stupid things this idiot has said he will do, expanding and accelerating US nuclear capability – and so re-igniting the global nuclear weapons race and threat of horrific war – is the most dangerously stupid (so far). ---
**Author:** ![Donpeyote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a4c791/32.png) [@Donpeyote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Donpeyote)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2016, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tweets-apparent-call-for-more-u-s-nuclear-weapons/775411/67 "2016-12-23T19:56:52Z")
We need to keep up with the Russians & Chinese (At a minimum ) ---
**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, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tweets-apparent-call-for-more-u-s-nuclear-weapons/775411/68 "2016-12-23T20:08:44Z")
> [@MindsEye\_Watering](#): > > [Trump receives ‘very nice’ Christmas letter from Putin](http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/23/politics/trump-putin-christmas-letter-russian-relations/index.html) See, Putin already has Trump eating out of his hand. Good job Pooty, right on schedule. The deed to the White house is in the mail. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2016, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tweets-apparent-call-for-more-u-s-nuclear-weapons/775411/69 "2016-12-23T20:11:50Z")
> [@Donpeyote](#): > > We need to keep up with the Russians & Chinese (At a minimum ) Yes, if you’re talking about the economy, infrastructure, investment in education and research. But if you’ve talking about getting more nuclear weapons so we can destroy the entire world 5 times instead of 4 times? No. This is just fucking insane. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2016, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tweets-apparent-call-for-more-u-s-nuclear-weapons/775411/70 "2016-12-23T20:12:39Z")
That letter from Putin to Trump seems designed to flatter him while saying little of substance. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2016, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tweets-apparent-call-for-more-u-s-nuclear-weapons/775411/71 "2016-12-23T20:17:34Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > That letter from Putin to Trump seems designed to flatter him while saying little of substance. It’s political puppet theater. Putin is putting on the surgical rubber glove and lubing it just so before shoving his arm up Trump’s ass. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2016, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tweets-apparent-call-for-more-u-s-nuclear-weapons/775411/72 "2016-12-23T20:17:47Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#): > > [Good NY Times attempt to parse it here. (Three possibilities are suggested for each word or phrase).](http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/12/22/world/americas/trump-nuclear-tweet.html) > > Of all the dangerously stupid things this idiot has said he will do, expanding and accelerating US nuclear capability – and so re-igniting the global nuclear weapons race and threat of horrific war – is the most dangerously stupid (so far). I think it’s a waste of time to even attempt to parse anything that comes out of Trump’s mouth-hole. It is simply whatever half-assed idea happened to form in his tiny child-like brain. He’ll have forgotten it 10 minutes later. There is literally NO THOUGHT WHATSOEVER put into these little teenaged twitter-fests. In a few months, his blather will simply be ignored, at least by the adults in other countries. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2016, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tweets-apparent-call-for-more-u-s-nuclear-weapons/775411/73 "2016-12-23T20:18:49Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > That letter from Putin to Trump seems designed to flatter him while saying little of substance. And this is \*exactly \*how you influence the Trump-boy ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2016, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tweets-apparent-call-for-more-u-s-nuclear-weapons/775411/74 "2016-12-23T20:24:59Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > I think it’s a waste of time to even attempt to parse anything that comes out of Trump’s mouth-hole. > > It is simply whatever half-assed idea happened to form in his tiny child-like brain. He’ll have forgotten it 10 minutes later. There is literally NO THOUGHT WHATSOEVER put into these little teenaged twitter-fests. > > In a few months, his blather will simply be ignored, at least by the adults in other countries. …is what I’m saying. Except that it shouldn’t be ignored, but called out for exactly what it is - imbecilic twaddle. Otherwise we continue to burn news cycles listening to the tortured non-explanations by his surrogates who don’t know any better than to just hide their faces in shame. ---
**Author:** ![Donpeyote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a4c791/32.png) [@Donpeyote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Donpeyote)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2016, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tweets-apparent-call-for-more-u-s-nuclear-weapons/775411/75 "2016-12-23T20:26:07Z")
America should not rely on weapons conceived in the 60s and built in the 70s & 80s , if you thin this is insane look at what Russia & the Chinese are doing in ICBM technology … ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2016, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tweets-apparent-call-for-more-u-s-nuclear-weapons/775411/76 "2016-12-23T20:43:30Z")
> [@Donpeyote](#): > > America should not rely on weapons conceived in the 60s and built in the 70s & 80s , if you thin this is insane look at what Russia & the Chinese are doing in ICBM technology … Hypothetical situation: In a nuclear war, is the winner the country with the biggest bombs, the most bombs, the one who fires first, or some combination of the three? ---
**Author:** ![Donpeyote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a4c791/32.png) [@Donpeyote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Donpeyote)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2016, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tweets-apparent-call-for-more-u-s-nuclear-weapons/775411/77 "2016-12-23T20:46:41Z")
The Top Dog sleeps easiest . ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2016, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tweets-apparent-call-for-more-u-s-nuclear-weapons/775411/78 "2016-12-23T20:54:26Z")
The Nobel committee has announced that president-elect trump is this years winner of the “Screw Peace” prize. In a press statement they said that they recognize that awarding this prize to a man who hasn’t even taken office yet is an “unusual step” but added, “Hey, we might not get the chance later.” Previous winners include Adolf Hitler, Henry Kissinger, Osama Bin Laden, and George W. Bush. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2016, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tweets-apparent-call-for-more-u-s-nuclear-weapons/775411/79 "2016-12-23T21:55:07Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > > [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > > > That letter from Putin to Trump seems designed to flatter him while saying little of substance. > > And this is \*exactly \*how you influence the Trump-boy I’m _really_ hoping he’s more clever than he appears. ---
**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, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tweets-apparent-call-for-more-u-s-nuclear-weapons/775411/80 "2016-12-23T22:38:25Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > I’m _really_ hoping he’s more clever than he appears. He could hardly be _less_ clever than he appears, to be sure. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tweets-apparent-call-for-more-u-s-nuclear-weapons/775411.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-tweets-apparent-call-for-more-u-s-nuclear-weapons/775411.md?page=5)