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.

 

[Doc7505]

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

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Got a point there... DSA Democrats like AOC, ilhan Omar, or Cori Busj\h would oppose this or use it against White Americans if they could
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‘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.”’

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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.
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The Time is Right for Trump’s “Golden Dome” Defense of America​

The Time is Right for Trump’s “Golden Dome” Defense of America | The Gateway Pundit | by John Mills

During much of the Cold War, America placed a high priority on defense of the American Homeland. Radars, Missiles, and Jet Interceptors were pervasive across the Continental United States. These capabilities withered greatly with the fall of the Wall dividing Berlin and Germany in 1989. Since...

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17 May 2025 ~~ By John Mills

During much of the Cold War, America placed a high priority on defense of the American Homeland. Radars, Missiles, and Jet Interceptors were pervasive across the Continental United States. These capabilities withered greatly with the fall of the Wall dividing Berlin and Germany in 1989. Since that time, the American Homeland has been largely barren of defenses against hostile aircraft, cruise missiles, ballistic missiles, drones, or rockets. The existing missile interceptors in California and Alaska are small in number and the rest of the defenses in the United States are spotty and almost insignificant.
President Trump announced an end to this era of defenselessness on January 27, 2025 with his Executive Order entitled, “The Iron Dome for America”, which he now refers to as “Golden Dome”. Iron Dome references the Israeli systems that were originally designed to knock down simple, small rockets fired from the Gaza Strip, West Bank, and Lebanon, but has evolved into a much larger, tiered network of capabilities that proved an integral part of the historic events of 2024 where two mass volleys of different weapons were launched at Israel from Iran and other locations.
In past missile defense initiatives, the technology was just not ready

2024 showed that mass missile and drone attacks could be defeated with high confidence​

What will Trump’s “Golden Dome” look like?​

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In some ways, “Golden Dome” will be a return to the glory days of Eisenhower’s Nike Plan only this time, more reliable, higher levels of effectiveness, and perhaps not as noticeable. “Golden Dome” will be a layered defense of missiles, cannon, electronic warfare, and lasers defending dozens of America’s cities, ports, airfields, factories, and sensitive strategic sites. Some of these capabilities will be on the ground and some may be in orbit like the Star Wars concept of operation. Sensors such as radars, electro-optics, heat, and motion sensors will be linked to regional and national command centers to conduct engagement decisioning with advanced Artificial Intelligence at cyber speed.

Commentary:
.Democrats will insist on telling us that, instead of spending money on the defense of this country, we should be sending people down to rescue those poor MS-13 dreamers illegally deported back to their home country?
At the same time Democrats do have a point. Why would enemies bother shooting missiles at us? They simply buy off Democrats or threaten the politicians to get what they want. Our domestic enemies have been attempting to control our government. They're the root of our 'Deep State'.
On the positive side, we all must remember that there are countries that wish us ill.