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Read the Washington Post, Trump’s bizarre brag about the nuclear arsenal doesn’t square with reality, which noted:
"President Trump tweeted a warning to North Korea on Wednesday morning. Pointing to his executive order to 'renovate and modernize our nuclear arsenal,' he said that arsenal is 'now stronger and more powerful than ever before.'
The contention in these tweets is not based in reality.
Trump, yet again, appears to be overinflating his accomplishments as president. And what's more, judging by these tweets, he doesn't seem to even understand his own nuclear arsenal or its current status.
Experts on these things make clear:
A meaningful advance in less than seven months of the Trump administration is fantasy — there's just no way it's much different than it was when Trump took over.
Trump doesn't appear to have done anything more than order a review of the nuclear arsenal.
Even if we set aside the above, the arsenal simply isn't 'stronger and more powerful than ever before.'
'It’s absurd; this is like — you have to be the biggest hayseed in America to believe this,' said Jeffrey Lewis, a nuclear expert at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies. 'There’s no point at which this statement touches reality.'"
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