The New York Times Editorial board suggested Thursday that President Donald Trump shouldn’t have nuclear weapons, but used several inaccuracies to make the case.
To start, the article was, at least in part, inspired by a report senior members of the Trump administration have declared “absolutely false.” Trump supposedly requested a ten-fold increase in the size of the nuclear arsenal this past summer during a national security meeting with senior U.S. officials.
“This kind of erroneous reporting is irresponsible,” Secretary of Defense James Mattis said after discrediting the report. TheNYT article does not note that the NBC report is contested and potentially false.
Calling Trump’s command of the nuclear arsenal “troubling,” because the president “can unilaterally order a nuclear strike at any time” (like past American presidents), TheNYT asserts that his nuclear arsenal could “decimate” foreign countries. The word “decimate” indicates “at least a quarter of the population could be killed,” TheNYT states. The word “decimate” traditionally means one in ten or ten percent.
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