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Trump Calls for ‘Giant Dome’ to Protect the US ‘From a Hostile Source’ (themessenger.com)
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[–] 20 points 2 years ago (6 children)

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.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 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.

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