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?Let It Be an Arms Race,? Trump Says

http://www.wsj.com/articles/let-it-be-an-arms-race-trump-says-1482507844

WASHINGTON?President-elect Donald Trump said Friday that he welcomes an international nuclear arms race, a comment his spokesman later sought to temper and which Russian President Vladimir Putin seemed to dismiss.

Mr. Trump?s remarks came a day after he and Mr. Putin issued competing declarations that their respective countries will ratchet up nuclear weapons capabilities. Addressing the subject Friday, the U.S. president-elect appeared to double down on the warning, saying he welcomes the nuclear competition.

?Let it be an arms race. We will outmatch them at every pass and outlast them all,? Mr. Trump said in a brief, off-camera interview with MSNBC ?Morning Joe? co-host Mika Brzezinski, who reported it on the show Friday morning.

On Thursday, Mr. Trump said in a Twitter message that the U.S. needs to expand its nuclear capabilities, though he provided no explanation what policy changes that implied. The message came after Mr. Putin made a statement that Russia needs to build up its military across the board, including nuclear weapons.

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On Friday in a nationally televised press conference, Mr. Putin said Russia doesn?t want an arms race.

?We will never get dragged into an arms race where we spend resources that we can?t afford,? he said.

Mr. Trump?s newly named White House press secretary, Sean Spicer, played down any danger of nuclear brinkmanship when he was asked about Mr. Trump?s comment on NBC?s ?Today? show Friday morning.

WTF... he is Hitler I'm convinced

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Yeah. He's still ranting about it. This fool is going to fuck around and get this country and our allies tied up in a nuclear war. Damn dummy.

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russia said

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I can't help but think this is also a way for him to put money in the pockets of some of his business buddies.

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russia said

EXACTLY!!! Like does he think every other super power in the world will say "Oh shit the US is stepping up their Nuclear Arsenal, we better chill" 

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I need to start building a bomb shelter

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I told y'all this orange dummy is going to get us KILLED. Watch. It's going to be World War III in this bitch and we're going to suffer the most while he lines his pocket with cash. His supporters are so fucking dumb. He literally called them violent and so forth yesterday. He implied that he fooled them and they were still cheering. Damn dummies.