President Trump Announces GOLDEN DOME Project Leader

President Trump just announced Space Force Gen. Michael Guetlein to lead the “Golden Dome” missile defense project.

How much is it?

Well, House Republicans have tucked $25 billion for it into the latest “One Big Beautiful Bill Act.”

Trump says it finally finishes Reagan’s 1980s “Star Wars” project.

This should make incoming missiles pointless.

Question is, will it block rogue drones? I’m sure it can’t be that hard to calibrate to target them.

Donald Trump unveils a $175 billion ‘Golden Dome’ missile defense shield plan.

It aims to protect the United States against threats from North Korea and elsewhere. pic.twitter.com/z0QqgXtS0N

— Pop Crave (@PopCrave) May 20, 2025

Our adversaries are working overtime to develop new ways to take advantage of America’s vulnerabilities.

President Trump’s Golden Dome helps stop them in their tracks. pic.twitter.com/69FtaHYJUT

— Senator Jim Banks (@SenatorBanks) May 20, 2025

New York Times reports:

President Trump on Tuesday named Space Force Gen. Michael Guetlein to lead his “Golden Dome” project to improve and integrate America’s missile defense technology — as House Republicans included $25 billion for the plan in the latest version of the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act.”

Trump said the plan would make good on Ronald Reagan’s “Star Wars” project in the 1980s to protect America from incoming nuclear missiles.

“We will truly be completing the job that President Reagan started 40 years ago, forever ending the missile threat to the American homeland,” Trump said in the Oval Office.

“The success rate is very close to 100%, which is incredible when you think of it, you’re shooting bullets out of the air,” he said, apparently referring to THAAD missile tests, which have been successful in shooting down intermediate-range ballistic missiles, rather than nuclear-equipped intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) from countries such as Russia, China and North Korea.

“Canada has called us, and they want to be a part of it. So we’ll be talking to them. They want to have protection also. So as usual, we help Canada,” Trump said, joined by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Guetlein.

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The president said that the new project would be done “in about three years” by the time he leaves office.

The “Golden Dome” name is taken from Israel’s US-funded “Iron Dome” system that has a high success rate in shooting down short-range missiles from neighboring terrorist groups.

“Once fully constructed, the Golden Dome will be capable of intercepting missiles even if they are launched from other sides of the world, and even if they’re launched from space. And we will have the best system ever,” Trump vowed.

“We helped Israel with theirs, and it was very successful, and now we have technology that’s even far advanced from that … hypersonic missiles, ballistic missiles and advanced cruise missiles, all of them will be knocked out of the air.”

🚨 #BREAKING: President Trump and Secretary Hegseth have announced the GOLDEN DOME missile defense system for the U.S.

"Golden Dome will be capable of catching missiles from across the world or even SPACE."

"We'll be completing the job Reagan started 40 years ago!"

Trump also… pic.twitter.com/MX1URx1fa0

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) May 20, 2025

We should’ve had one of these ages ago.

How would you approach this?