[Just like the photo Trump should not have tweeted as it was, here is another example of how Trump thinks. ]
The circled part reads: “It would take an hour and a half to learn everything there is to learn about missiles… I think I know most of it anyway.”
That was then, and this is now. According to Bob Woodward’s new book,
Peril, Trump’s overall incompetence, combined with his weak emotional control, led Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley to secretly make
“senior military officials in charge of the National Military Command Center” swear an oath to him that they would take no military action or nuclear action from Trump without involving Milley first. This was in the days after the Jan. 6 attempted coup d’etat.
Woodward has previously illustrated Trump’s lack of both sense and intelligence in his 2020 book,
Rage. In that book, Woodward details a conversation he had with then-only-once-impeached President Donald Trump about military secrets that someone like Bob Woodward should not be hearing.
Trump reportedly blabbered,
"I have built a nuclear—a weapons system that nobody's ever had in this country before. We have stuff that Putin and Xi have never heard about before. There's nobody—what we have is incredible."
Woodward says that this turned out to be true, and the military officials he spoke with were “surprised” Trump would reveal such a thing to Bob goddamn Woodward.
As conservatives work around the clock to figure out how to spin the alleged discovery of nuclear secrets illegally hoarded away in Donald Trump’s Mordor lair Mar-A-Lago, many others point to Trump’s history of casually bringing up nukes at every...
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