Trump to Mika: ‘Let It Be an Arms Race: We Will Outlast, Outmatch them All’

Legal Insurrection ^ | Mark Finkelstein

[governsleastgovernsbest]

It was the strangest of settings for some very serious breaking news. There was Mika Brzezinski, cuddled up in her flannels on Morning Joe‘s special Christmas set. In the previous segment, Joe Scarborough had grilled Sean Spicer, whom President-elect Trump yesterday named as his White House spokesman, over Trump’s tweet of yesterday in which he said that the US needed to greatly strengthen its nuclear arsenal.

Spicer repeatedly refused to say that the Trump tweet came in response from a statement by Vladimir Putin, just hours earlier, announcing Russia’s intention to strengthen its own nuclear arsenal.

When the show returned after a break, Spicer was gone, but Mika and Joe announced that during the break Spicer had been on the phone with Trump, that Mika had posed a question about the nuclear tweet, and that in response Trump told her: “let it be an arms race because we will outmatch them at every pass and outlast them all.”

View the video here.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Trump chooses Mika to break some serious news.

Ping to Liberal Media Criticism list.

[headstamp 2]

Is this a real picture?

[txhurl]

And make GLBT pay for it.

[Gaffer]

I’ll say just two words: Star Wars. The nickname given to SDI. It’s what bankrupted the USSR.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Yes. They had moved to a special Christmas set for the interview with Sean Spicer. It was truly strange to see such serious news broken in such a festive setting.

[TheShaz]

At least we found out WHO is “Pajama Boy’s” mother is.
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I love it, nobody expected that kind of response from Trump. “Let it be a arms race, we will win in the end”.
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ZING!

[ScottinVA]

LOL! Though I agree with Trump, that comment will send the libs into a three-foot hover.

[rodguy911]

Its always a mistake to underestimate Trump no matter what the topic. He’s light years ahead of most everyone.

[ScottinVA]

The nickname given to SDI. It’s what bankrupted the USSR.

Yep... retired Soviet generals admitted to that.

[Helicondelta]

The Russians are bankrupt already. But the Chinese military budget will surpass the US in a few years if they keep growing at 6%.

[Gaffer]

Not when they get a decent tariff tax slapped on them. :0)

[dp0622]

YES. Even Russian Generals said it.

Carl Sagan was an idiot for mocking it.

Dead Ted was wrong too.

But I think there’s gonna be a lot of money in military equipment maker stocks :)

I wonder if there’s an ETF for that!

[Right Brother]

[Lion Den Dan]

Its always a mistake to underestimate Trump no matter what the topic. He’s light years ahead of most everyone.==========

But--but-- All the smartest news people and administration people and Hillary say Trump is an incompetent idiot who does not deserve to be President!/s

[RegulatorCountry]

Looks like she’s ready for her Christmas shower.

[Former Proud Canadian]

“let it be an arms race because we will outmatch them at every pass and outlast them all.”

Would you expect any less?

This is a negotiation. He is letting the Russians and the Chinese know what his opening terms are. What else is he supposed to say?

[Kozy]

SDI was the easy thing to point to for the USSR’s collapse. It wasn't. It was Reagan and Casey. At that time the best scientific computer was the DEC VAX. It was so important to the advanced design of weaponry. To fund the arm's race Russia had to drill deeper to get more oil. As you drill deeper the design of the drill heads change. Russia needs the VAX to do the design work. At that time Russia was buying on the black market the VAX’s. Reagan told Casey to make it stop. We knew the VAX’s were entering Russia through Finland. The price didn't matter. Well old Casey flew to Finland and met with the powers to be. He explained our laws and how Reagan was upset that they were supplying USSR with banned equipment. He also showed them the embargo orders that Reagan had signed for Finland. Stop the shipments to Russia of be a Nordic Cuba. The shipments stopped. Russia couldn't design new drill heads and their black gold supply died. They ran out of oil money to fund their economy and Star Wars at the same time.

[Gaffer]

It is the current day equivalent of SDI and Nikita Khruschev’s UN shoe thumping “We will bury you!” As it should be. Negotiating from strength.

[major-pelham]

Nice to set the negotiating environment out there in the open so the Russians, Chinese, but most important of all, we, know what he’s doing.