In about-face, Trump targets ‘uncontrollable’ arms race, decries ‘crazy’ defense budget
President Trump in the last two years has never missed an opportunity to tout his $700 and $716 billion budgets to rebuild the ‘depleted’ U.S. military. He also has vowed to rebuild America’s nuclear arsenal by adding new low-yield weapons. He further has announced his intention to abandon a landmark Cold-War era arms control treaty with the Russians. Now, in a single tweet, the president has signaled he’s rethinking the whole idea of winning an arms race by outspending and outlasting America’s adversaries.