President Donald Trump’s new defence design
Asking sailors for technology choices may not be wise for the US president.
By ET Bureau |
Agencies
An anonymous — and supposedly old — farmer from the US state of Georgia is credited with the phrase “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”. But it was popularised by T Bert Lance, director of the Office of Management and Budget, during President Jimmy Carter's administration who, in addition to enunciating that pithy principle was also quoted in 1977 as saying, “That’s the trouble with government: fixing things that aren’t broken and not fixing things that are broken.”
It is a fine adage, and its elaboration has often borne out by history but the current US President Donald Trump has obviously taken it to heart given that he suddenly took a voice vote on board the USS Wasp in Japan this week to decide how new aircraft carriers would launch their planes.
He had concerns about the “over complication” of the Boeing 737 Max8 Manoeuvring Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS) after two crashes earlier this year. But even if he has been steamed up over bureaucratic delays, resorting to such an ad hoc method to decide defence technology choices — asking assembled US sailors “steam or electric” and announcing he will insist on a return to the old system of catapults as they wanted — may not float.
However, Trump may just have coined a new adage with his concluding words on the matter: “We don’t need that extra speed.”
Christine Teigen
Unlike some, Teigen, it seems, knows what exactly enraged the President enough to block her. It was this tweet — “Lollll. No one likes you.” Teigen’s tweet was in response to Trump’s tweet stating, “It’s very sad that Republicans, even some that were carried over the line on my back, do very little to protect their President.” Sharing a screenshot of the message that she has been blocked by Trump, she tweeted, “After 9 years of hating Donald J Trump, telling him ‘lol no one likes you’ was the straw.” Clearly, she hurt his feelings real bad.
(Image: Instagram/chrissyteigen)
It is a fine adage, and its elaboration has often borne out by history but the current US President Donald Trump has obviously taken it to heart given that he suddenly took a voice vote on board the USS Wasp in Japan this week to decide how new aircraft carriers would launch their planes.
He had concerns about the “over complication” of the Boeing 737 Max8 Manoeuvring Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS) after two crashes earlier this year. But even if he has been steamed up over bureaucratic delays, resorting to such an ad hoc method to decide defence technology choices — asking assembled US sailors “steam or electric” and announcing he will insist on a return to the old system of catapults as they wanted — may not float.
However, Trump may just have coined a new adage with his concluding words on the matter: “We don’t need that extra speed.”
Unlike some, Teigen, it seems, knows what exactly enraged the President enough to block her. It was this tweet — “Lollll. No one likes you.” Teigen’s tweet was in response to Trump’s tweet stating, “It’s very sad that Republicans, even some that were carried over the line on my back, do very little to protect their President.” Sharing a screenshot of the message that she has been blocked by Trump, she tweeted, “After 9 years of hating Donald J Trump, telling him ‘lol no one likes you’ was the straw.” Clearly, she hurt his feelings real bad.
(Image: Instagram/chrissyteigen)
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