NUCLEAR/NATIONAL SECURITY: " 'We must as a nation be more unpredictable,' Donald Trump said during the presidential campaign. 'We have to be unpredictable!'
Mission accomplished. Last week, without warning, Trump announced what sounded like a U-turn in U.S. nuclear weapons policy.
'The United States must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes,' the president-elect wrote on Twitter…
Twitter, moreover, doesn’t provide much room for clarity. Trump’s nuclear tweet was explained — and re-explained — by three different aides. Each of them provided a slightly different interpretation of what their boss really meant."
– “Trump’s drive-by foreign policy,” The Los Angeles Times online, Dec. 25, 2016, Doyle McManus, 12/25/2016