Trump Calls for ‘Giant Dome’ to Protect the US ‘From a Hostile Source’

hahahaah someone clearly used the words 'israel iron dome' in his presence, and this is the result.

what a fucking idiot.

Doesn't dementia affect a person's ability to recognize metaphor?
- So dose Ameridome temperature IQ.
Maybe he just watched Biodome with Pauly Shore?
- Or the Simpson movie. With his favorite fiction inspirational character, Spider Pig.

Trump criticized sending "billions of dollars out of the countries so they can build a dome, but we don’t have a dome ourselves."
"We’re going to have the greatest dome ever," he continued.

It astounds me that anyone is willing to vote for someone this stupid. It's not an act. He is legitimately stupid. That's been on full display this past fucking decade.

I’m gonna guess that what he’s attempting to refer to here is the Iron Dome system of Israeli fame.
We already have anti-ballistic missile systems:
the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense system is exactly what it sounds like
Aegis, Patriot, and THAAD are all short-range, terminal phase anti-ballistic-capable systems.
Also, to be clear, it would be a very bad idea for the US to pursue an expansion of the GMD system to be “impermeable” to a peer state, because not only would it be cripplingly expensive (even in the context of US military budgets), but it would also diminish the disincentive of doing a nuclear first strike (which would obviously lead directly to an intercontinental nuclear war), and you can guess who would want to do something like that.
- Joke's on you, in the time it took you to write out this informed rebuttal he's already moved on to wet magnets.
America might not have started the dome race, but by jingo it's gonna end it!
What? You think Israel's dome is better than ours? Theirs isn't even a real dome its just missiles! We're gonna put a real American dome around our country!
/nottheonion ?

Can't wait for the maga folks to defend this saying things like "he didn't mean that"

Well, to be fair, he probably came up with it after hearing about Israel's Iron Dome. So he might've meant something like that. Or he might think it's a literal dome. Who can say with Trump.

I swear I made this joke in 2016.

Does he not understand or care that the Patriots we're giving to Ukraine ARE a dome that does what he's talking about?

If you’re talking about trump and ask ‘does he understand’, the answer is ‘no’.

Its like a wall but for the sky, I am a very successful wall builder, some might even say the best.

You won't be laughing when your magnets get wet.

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Domes would totally protect us from all of of the government drones that have been flying around for the past couple hundred million years or so. Also turbines and cats. I like cats.

The world is only 2024 years old. Read a colander, maroon!
But would it protect us from the 5G? Or, the 6G! Jesus save us all...

We'll say it yet again: This isn't an act, folks. He really is this stupid.

This is not The Simpsons Movie nor Crysis 3.

You know, when I watch, uh, our guys operate those things, it’s unbelievable. Missile coming in, missile coming in. These geniuses sit down. Most of them are, you know, they’re from MIT. But they sit down, bing bing bing bing, boom, ph-sheee. It’s gone. It’s amazing. I think we could use, do you like that? I mean, isn’t that better than giving other countries billions of dollars? Billions. We’re going to get billions of dollars out of the countries and so they can build a dome, but we don’t have a dome ourselves. We’re going to have the greatest dome ever.

He's clearly not talking about a literal physical dome.

Clickbait.

What I'm taking away from this transcript is that he is indeed talking about a real-ass dome
I don't know why they bother, reading the verbatim transcript of what he said is more entertaining than any clickbait.
Only video I found ... During the "pshee" he's clearly gesturing a missile interception.
This isn't "sunlight in your body" stupidity, he's using an established metaphor to talk about a comprehensive missile defense system.

Ok Davros, calm yer tits before you go suggesting we genetically mutate our whole race into a bunch of hateful squids in tin cans trying to EXTERMINATE the rest of the universe. 😒

"We’re going to have the greatest dome ever," he continued.

I swear, this guy talks like a seven-year-old child. Guess that's what his supporters understand.

Sweet, innocent child. The idea of protecting america from space belongs to the late, great Ronald Reagan. He dreamed of a Star Wars defense back in the 1980s. He also believed that catsup was a vegetable, nuclear wars were survivable, and that astrology was a real thing.

Why are Republicans in general so damned afraid of everything?

fear is how they control their base. its not logic, which is why we cant argue with them.
- The base is what I was talking about.

And he'll make the aliens pay for it.

My life experience tells me we will never agree on a thermostat setting.

Bring on the AMERICUBE !

What about some kind of curtain? Make it with something strong like iron?

the reason magas love the guy? he speaks fluent moron.

It’s Freudian slip isn’t it? He said “Giant Dick” didn’t he?

He really wants a “giant dick” to protect him.

Daddy issues.

He went full Burns.

Full Monty...that mental image burns worse than acid.

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Imagine thinking the U.S. doesn’t already have one hell of an anti-missile defense system. No one has launched a rocket at the U.S., but if they did, that shit would absolutely get intercepted