Trump tweeted this morning about how big and powerful our nuclear arsenal is since he ordered it renovated and modernized, but says he hopes we never have to use it:
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
These twitter musings by POTUS are clearly aimed at N. Korea, as he appears to be building on the threat he made yesterday.
Also I think it’s part of his ‘everything is on the table’ approach to dealing with threats. He may never intend to use nukes, but he doesn’t want the Norks to believe that.
As we pointed out yesterday, Kim Jong Un is already threatening to attack Guam, which is another reason I think Trump is saying these things right now.