Maybe it wasn't the false teeth

He didn't have any water on that last speech.  He didn't make that mistake this time.  But he got a glass he could hold with one hand.

Drugs cause dry mouth.  Just sayin'.

President Donald Trump has released a new national security strategy for the US. The strategy outlines plans to preserve US military and economic dominance as key factors of global peace and prosperity.

The document, released Monday, lays out the four “pillars” of US national security as protecting the homeland, promoting American prosperity, preserving “peace through strength” and advancing US influence.

  RT

Pretty sure they mean peace through war.

First on the list of threats to the US, the strategy names “revisionist powers, such as China and Russia,” that seek to “shape a world antithetical to our interests and values.”

Revisionist? Like Make America Great Again?

Next on the list are regional “dictators that spread terror, threaten their neighbors, and pursue weapons of mass destruction” followed by “jihadist terrorists” and transnational criminal organizations.

To protect the US, Trump will “target threats at their source” and “confront threats before they ever reach our borders.”

I.E. bombs and Muslim bans.

While America was engaged in nation-building abroad, its rulers failed to build up and replenish the nation at home.

All that changed with last November's election, he said.

The only building up I've seen here so far is building up the Trump brand.

“With the strategy today, we are declaring that America is in the game and America is going to win,” Trump said.

Yay! Win what?

“Economic security is national security,” he said, promising to cut taxes and roll back regulations.

Indeed. But tax and regulation cuts to companies who pay themselves and move their businesses overseas isn't going to provide any economic security here.

He talked about the importance of complete rebuilding of US infrastructure - roads, bridges, railways, and communications.

Yeah, when's that supposed to happen?

“A nation without borders is not a nation,” the president said.

We have borders. Does he know that?

The White House has described the strategy as “principled realism” because it “acknowledges the central role of power in international politics, affirms that strong and sovereign states are the best hope for a peaceful world, and clearly defines our national interests,” but also “grounded in advancing American principles, which spreads peace and prosperity around the globe.”

Yeah, we can see how advancing American principles has brought peace and prosperity to the Middle East. Where else? Also, which nations have the most peace and how much power do they have in international politics?

Oh, wait...

The speech was fat with banalities that he struggled to pronounce, vague policy prescriptions that he struggled to enunciate, and sheer unmitigated bafflegab that he struggled to deliver. Plus sniffing and gasping and a two-handed death-grip on a small glass of water.

  Charles P Pierce

Drugs also make it hard to feel your mouth sometimes.  Risky to use just the one hand.

Just sayin'.

More on that speech here.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.