If you were in a good mood this morning, perhaps anticipating a Super Bowl party,* that feeling might have been ruined when you heard that Trump has ignored most of his generals and decided to start a new nuclear arms race. Trump is the man called an “idiot savant” on nuclear policy by Foreign Policy last year.
Today’s news is not reassuring when we all are worried about Trump’s mental stability — who can forget “ my nuclear button is bigger" and "fire and fury like the world has never seen”.
On Friday, the Trump administration released its
Nuclear Posture Review calling for new, more usable nuclear weapons and more ways to use them, including widening the rules on using them first. Donald Trump would get new nukes that his advisers claim are "low-yield," and that Trump might be more inclined to actually launch. And he would have new excuses to use them, including against large-scale cyberattacks, that previous presidents have rejected. from
Give Trump more nuclear weapons and more ways to use them? Not a good idea, CNN
And, sorry to throw more cold water on what may be left of your good mood, you may have read this from James Doyle, who served as Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox's deputy:
“We got lucky with Watergate—good prosecutors, and tapes!” Doyle says. This time around, the debate is less clear-cut, and the evidence murky. Republicans are making concerted efforts to taint the work, and challenge the motives, of the watchdogs.
And then you may have checked out Trump’s morning Tweets to find that overnight Trump's malignant narcissism and pathological lying disease wasn't cured by the truth fairy.
Meanwhile, some of you may be distracted by Superbowl hype. I’m happy for you. You might even have some relief from thinking Alas, I haven’t been a sports fan since my alma mater, Michigan State was named national football champion two years in a row. Now the school has been besmirched by a scandal, but that's another story (which happens to be here).
*Or going out to see "The Shape of Water" or another popular movie when most people will be at home glued to their television machines.