Where is Trumps armada? Apparently, wherever Fox News says it is.

[riversedge]

I have to wonder if Trump reads articles such as this.





Where is Trump’s ‘armada’? Apparently, wherever Fox News says it is.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/where-is-trumps-armada-apparently-wherever-fox-news-says-it-is/2017/04/21/c2350126-2695-11e7-a1b3-faff0034e2de_story.html?hpid=hp_no-name_opinion-card-a%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.36552ea71e63


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President Trump in the East Room of the White House in Washington on Thursday. (Andrew Harnik/Associated Press)


By Dana Milbank Opinion writer April 21 at 12:54 PM








.......Ricks, author of the forthcoming history “Churchill & Orwell,” argues that Trump’s tendency to speak nonsense isn’t necessarily a bad thing when it comes to national security. Mattis and his generals are running foreign policy while the president, in over his head, hangs out in the White House watching TV and getting a nudge from the first lady when it’s time to put his hand over his heart for the national anthem at the Easter Egg Roll.

“We’re now experiencing what a decapitation strike would be against the U.S. government,” he said. “You can have nobody, effectively, at the White House and still run the country. It’s a post-nuclear environment.” Trump may have no clue, but his national security team is “solid,” Ricks argues. “The less the White House knows these days, the better.”

And allies — notably Germany’s Angela Merkel, whose hand Trump was reluctant to shake after a tense meeting — are coming to discount Trump because they recognize he is out of his depth. “Foreigners understand that you can’t stand by anything Trump says,” Ricks argues. Instead, the world is learning to “watch what he does, not what he says — and watch what his underlings do.”


At home as well as abroad, people are coming to recognize this emperor’s state of undress. Gallup this week reported that only 45 percent of Americans think Trump keeps his promises, down from 62 percent in February.

The Carl Vinson’s peregrinations show why

[Thomas Hurt]

1. pfffft, it is perfectly fine to give a sociopath sliding into senility access to nuclear weapons..

(snark)