Pentagon briefly worried that Trump was declaring war.

[kstewart33]

Source: Political Wire

President Trump’s “abrupt announcement” banning transgender people from the military “seemed to stun military leaders,” even though Trump said in a series of tweets that he consulted with “my generals and military experts,” BuzzFeed reports.

“At the Pentagon, the first of the three tweets raised fears that the president was getting ready to announce strikes on North Korea or some other military action. Many said they were left in suspense for nine minutes, the time between the first and second tweet. Only after the second tweet did military officials receive the news the president was announcing a personnel change on Twitter.”


Read more: https://politicalwire.com/2017/07/26/trump-tweets-briefly-worried-pentagon-declaring-war/

[Skittles]

1. my generals

he sounds like a fucking dictator

[OldHippieChick]

3. A legend in his own mind. eom

[sarcasmo]

12. "Only Abe is more Presidential."

[OldHippieChick]

17. That seems to be the only President he can remember. I would have thought he might mention

Eisenhower or Reagan at least once. But this must be another sign of his altzeimers.

[rzemanfl]

4. He thinks he is a fucking dictator Skittles. n/t

[rzemanfl]

2. 140 characters could get us all killed someday. n/t

[Docreed2003]

7. Seriously....

This fucker is likely to tweet something mid-shit and the world will pay the consequences because he couldn't fit the message into 140 characters!

[Brother Buzz]

8. "A man you can bait with a tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons."

[xor]

11. I just went to his twitter to see what it looked like.

Jesus Christ it's just surreal. It's getting worse every day. I figured by now that would have toned down. :/

[rzemanfl]

18. Who the hell starts a tweet with "Please be advised....?" He must have picked that up

from one of his lawyer's letters.

[Docreed2003]

5. How is it that our media pretty much is ignoring this issue???

I'm not talking about the transgender ban here, which is disgusting and ridiculous in its own right, I'm talking about the fact that our military leaders were waiting on a fucking tweet to see if our "President" was declaring strikes or a war!!!! WTF!!! This isn't normal and it's not ok!

[christx30]

6. This is the United States of America...

And it's friggin' sad that high level military personnel were monitoring Twitter for 9 minutes wondering if we were going to war. I don't know what's worse.. That people think that the president would announce something so important on Twitter, or that I know he would. I'm just in awe of this man's ineptitude.

"Are we going to war?"
"I don't know. Let's look at the president's Twitter account."

Just... ugh.

[Girard442]

16. Were there no brass who said...

"No way we're going to war 'cause of a fucking tweet."

[keithbvadu2]

19. But they were 'Trump's generals'.

[christx30]

23. At least one person had to of said it.

We've come a long way from Roosevelt.
"Yesterday, December 7, 1941 — a date which will live in infamy — the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked 1/21" (yes, I did the math)

[elehhhhna]

26. I hope they're figuring out ways to save our goddamn democracy

Extra judicial or what the fuck ever. They swear an oath to the Constitution not the fuckwit Russian puppet

[Dave Starsky]

9. I figured he might have talked to them.

Oh, what am I saying? He's a fucking coward and an idiot. He prefers to tell people things via Tweet.

[riversedge]

10. WHY WOULD the pentagon even take a trump TWEET seriously of war. Good lord, has the Pentagon gone

off the wall????

[Autumn]

13. I think they are well aware that he's mentally ill and don't trust him.

[jpak]

14. Some commander and chief - keep "your" generals in the dark

asswipe

[no_hypocrisy]

15. Unfortunately the next time may not be a "drill".

[Hekate]

20. Malignant narcissism with a soupon of dementia

[PSPS]

21. "my generals and military experts" means what he sees on fox

[matt819]

22. Nine Minutes

Kind of makes you wonder.

I would guess that his Russian paymasters monitor the tweets on a real time basis. Who knows, maybe an intern does it. As punishment.

Now imagine they had the same reaction as those in the Pentagon. A lot can happen in 9 minutes. Think about it. Sit still for 9 minutes and just think about the tweets, the reaction in the Pentagon, the poor schmuck of an intern stuck with tweet reading. And then think about how long it takes to get bombers into the air. Or bombs. From both sides. Imagine the Pentagon doing something that prompted noticeable military activity in South Korea, or in the nearby oceans. Maybe a phone call from the Pentagon to the White House asking WTF, with the buffoon directing a nuclear strike from the toilet, not knowing or caring what he's done or what the result might be. Or think about Kim Jong-un looking at any military movement across the border and making his own assessment and taking what he believes are defensive actions involving the launching of a missile.

Nine minutes.

[Chemisse]

24. It must be unnerving to serve under the Mad King.

At any time he could do something really, dangerously crazy.

[scipan]

25. just shoot me.

This is really really not normal.