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Trump Calls for ‘Giant Dome’ to Protect the US ‘From a Hostile Source’ (themessenger.com)

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[-] rimu@piefed.social 20 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] GratefullyGodless@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago

Are you sure about that? With that word salad, who can really be sure what he's thinking.

[-] loutr@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago

I'm not a native speaker, but would anybody say "build a dome" when talking about setting up missile batteries?

[-] cammoblammo@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

We would. That’s a fairly normal thing to say.

The problem is that Trump tends to use phrases like this literally. Not saying it’s the case this time, but it’s certainly on brand for him. My initial thought was that he’s advocating for getting rid of missiles and replacing such systems with an actual dome. It’s just so hard to figure out what he means sometimes.

[-] wildcardology@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Well Hitler built the Atlantic wall without any real wall.

[-] thatgirlwasfire@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Because Isreal has a missile defense system called the Iron Dome. So Trump thinks the that all missile defense systems are called domes.

[-] grabyourmotherskeys@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago

He heard someone talking about this, probably: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Dome

[-] Olgratin_Magmatoe@startrek.website 12 points 2 years ago

Which is still stupid, because the we already have this tech.

[-] Radiantprime@feddit.uk 4 points 2 years ago

So... Patriots

[-] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago

What I'm taking away from this transcript is that he is indeed talking about a real-ass dome

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

I never thought he was talking about a literal wall. Im not getting wooshed again.

[-] Faildini@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I don't know why they bother, reading the verbatim transcript of what he said is more entertaining than any clickbait.

[-] Bgugi@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

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.

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