Trump asked for tenfold increase in US nukes in meeting that prompted Tillerson’s ‘moron’ remark: report
"Trump’s advisers, including the joint chiefs of staff and Tillerson, were surprised by the comments and briefly explained the legal and practical hurdles to a nuclear buildup, according to NBC News. They informed the president that current U.S. military posture is stronger than it was in the late 1960s, when the American nuclear arsenal was largest. Trump also complained that his advisors had not yet presented a plan to help U.S. companies obtain mineral rights in Afghanistan, as China had a decade ago. He compared the Afghanistan policy review to the renovation of Manhattan’s 21 Club, which closed for a year in the 1980s and hired a consultant whose only suggestion was to enlarge the kitchen. As the meeting broke up, according to NBC News, Tillerson told officials remaining in the room that the president was a “f*cking moron"."
