President Trump Makes Military Announcement In First Press Conference In A Week

President Trump is back in front of the press after spending a week distancing himself from the media.

In his highly anticipated press conference, President Trump announced that the U.S. Space Command headquarters will be relocated to Alabama.

Watch Trump here:

Trump RELOCATES US Space Command HQ to Alabama

‘ROCKET CITY’

US President speaks to the press for the FIRST time in days pic.twitter.com/fcGM18SaeT

— RT (@RT_com) September 2, 2025

Despite the media constantly reporting that Trump’s health is in decline, he looked quite well in the press conference.

CBS reported more details on Trump’s military announcement:

Appearing in the Oval Office alongside Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and members of Alabama’s congressional delegation, Mr. Trump formally announced that U.S. Space Command headquarters will move to the “beautiful locale” of Huntsville, Alabama. He said the city will be known as “Rocket City.”

“Seven years in the making,” he said, adding that the change will bring 30,000 jobs to the area.

The president signed an executive order in 2018 reestablishing U.S. Space Command, after it had been absorbed in 2002 into U.S. Strategic Command. Its main goal is to find ways to defend U.S. interests in space, especially the constellations of satellites that U.S. ground, sea and air forces rely on for navigation, communications and surveillance.

In 2023, President Joe Biden had decided to keep Space Command headquarters in Colorado, where its temporary headquarters was located, overturning Mr. Trump’s first-term decision to move it to Alabama.

Biden had been convinced by the head of Space Command at the time that moving its headquarters would jeopardize military readiness. His reversal prompted the House Armed Services Committee, chaired by Republican Mike Rogers of Alabama, to request the Pentagon’s watchdog investigate the basing decision.

The Defense Department Inspector General found that Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama was the Air Force’s preferred location for the command, but building facilities to equal the ones already in Colorado could take three to four years. Gen. Dickinson, according to the watchdog report, voiced concerns about that timeline’s impact on the command’s readiness, contributing to the decision Biden made to keep the headquarters in Colorado.

🚨 BREAKING — IT'S OFFICIAL: President Trump announces he is moving the US Space Command HQ from Colorado to ALABAMA

More than 30,000 JOBS will now be created in Huntsville, Alabama, which will now be known as "ROCKET CITY," Trump says

BILLIONS of dollars of investments will… pic.twitter.com/S5vYgAklUc

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) September 2, 2025

Axios reported on the move by Trump and added details on Space Force’s new location:

U.S. Space Command is relocating to Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Ala., from Colorado President Trump announced Tuesday.

Redstone Arsenal is already home to a significant military presence and is expected to play a central role in Trump’s desire for a Golden Dome missile defense program.

The relocation of Space Command, one of the Department of Defense’s unified combatant commands, from Colorado Springs, Colo., to Huntsville is expected to bring jobs and investment to the city.

North Alabama officials have been hinting at it for months, with everyone from Rep. Dale Strong, whose district includes Huntsville, to Sen. Tommy Tuberville saying an announcement was imminent.

Strong has said that the move could bring about 4,700 jobs to the area.

Huntsville, home to the 38,000-acre Redstone Arsenal and NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, was identified by the Air Force as its preferred location for Space Command in 2021.