Trump wants a 'Golden Dome' capable of defending the entire US: 'Strategically, it doesn't make any sense'

[Crepitus]

Just admit it..if biden has come up with the idea, it would have been the greatest idea since gun powder....

 

[TheInfiniteSadness]

We already have that but, if I told you the details, I'd have to snuff ya.

Couldn't you just give them a stern talking too?

 

[liarintheWH]

OP is a bot.

Probably foreign.

Why anyone engages with it is baffling.

 

[westwall]

You do realize we don't have a defense against hypersonic missiles, right? Ever think working on a technology like this might lead to a defense against them?

Yeah, we actually do. The SPRINT missile system would have to be brought back, but it was capable of doing that job decades ago.

 

[kyzr]

Trump's "Golden Dome" or as Reagan named it, "Star Wars" anti-missile defense would be too expensive to deploy.

The MAD system works just fine. The biggest threat to the US is the $37T national debt, as the Joint Chiefs said.

 

[the watcher]

I think that the more and bigger hornets' nests that you fuck with the more protective clothing you need. Also the more stings you will likely get. Oh, and the more you will have to go in debt to buy.

 

[ThisIsMe]

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But you know it's true lol..Jerry Seinfeld memes aside..

 

[Robert W]

The only difference I can see is the Ronnie closed the insane asylums but tRump brought them to the Whitehouse and welcomed them in.

Governor Pat Brown in California passed the law to close those insane asylums. The only reason democrats blame Reagan is that as the new Governor he was obliged to follow laws passed by Democrats to empty them.

 

[Crepitus]

Governor Pat Brown in California passed the law to close those insane asylums. The only reason democrats blame Reagan is that as the new Governor he was obliged to follow laws passed by Democrats to empty them.

FAKE NEWS!!!

See the mental health act of 1980.

 

[Robert W]

FAKE NEWS!!!

See the mental health act of 1980.

Reagan was not the CA Governor in 1980. Democrat Jerry Brown the son of former governor Pat Brown was.

 

[Robert W]

FAKE NEWS!!!

See the mental health act of 1980.

The Lanterman-Petris-Short (LPS) Act, enacted in California in 1967, aimed to reform mental health care by ending inappropriate, indefinite, and involuntary commitment of individuals with mental health disorders and related conditions, while also ensuring prompt evaluation and treatment and safeguarding individual rights.

 

[Crepitus]

Reagan was not the CA Governor in 1980. Democrat Jerry Brown the son of former governor Pat Brown was.

Reagan was president in 1981, kid.

Try to keep up for once.

 

[Robert W]

Reagan was president in 1981, kid.

Try to keep up for once.

You don't even understand the simple truth. The changes you talked about happened in 1967. Why did Reagan empty the insane asylums then, Because the public saw them as prisons for the insane.

 

[Leo123]

Trump's "Golden Dome" or as Reagan named it, "Star Wars" anti-missile defense would be too expensive to deploy.

The MAD system works just fine. The biggest threat to the US is the $37T national debt, as the Joint Chiefs said.

Reagan never called it Star Wars.’ That is a Democrat/media creation. It was ‘Strategic Defense Initiative’. (SDI)

 

[TheInfiniteSadness]

Trump says he's going to save the American people trillions of dollars and now he wants spend trillions dollars for something that already exists. The only time America has ever been attacked by air was during World War II. The Japanese sent balloons over Oregon. I think he wants to create it because Canada Geese keep shitting on his golf course.

 

[Leo123]

Trump says he's going to save the American people trillions of dollars and now he wants spend trillions dollars for something that already exists. The only time America has ever been attacked by air was during World War II. The Japanese sent balloons over Oregon. I think he wants to create it because Canada Geese keep shitting on his golf course.

Better than spending it on 'green' energy.

 

[TheInfiniteSadness]

Better than spending it on 'green' energy.

You already have a golden dome and they started building it in the '50's and and kept updating it over the years. No one has ever complained that the US military couldn't defend your country against ballistic missiles. It's just a matter of finding out if it does work.

 

[frigidweirdo]

‘Trump has repeatedly insisted the US needs a missile defense program similar to Israel’s Iron Dome, but the systems are orders of magnitude apart. In practical terms, the comparison is less apples to oranges, and more apples to aircraft carriers.

Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system selectively protects populated areas from short-range threats in a country the size of New Jersey; Trump wants a space-based missile defense system capable of defending the entire United States from advanced ballistic and hypersonic missiles.

For one thing, “Israel is tiny,” the source familiar with ongoing internal discussions about the Golden Dome project said. “So, it is 100% feasible to blanket Israel in things like radars and a combination of mobile and fixed interceptors.”

“How are you going to do that in the United States? You can’t do it just at the borders and the shoreline, because intercontinental ballistic missiles, they can re-enter the atmosphere over Kansas.”’

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/22/politics/pentagon-golden-dome-scramble/index.html

It has to be 'golden' of course.

Golden toilets, golden drapes. Golden dye job, golden showers, everything has to be golden.

More childish idiocy from Trump.

Trump simply saying the things he thinks he eejit supporters want to hear. They're so easy to manipulate.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Speaking of which, how would the golden toilet dome protect the US from the "enemy within"?

We are eliminating you one at a time.