frump waves flag (not u.s.) to impress his base

[lindysalsagal]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/08/29/trump-officially-launches-us-space-command-counter-russia-china-threats/

Trump officially launches U.S. Space Command in counter to Russia, China threats

In a Rose Garden ceremony, Trump called it a “landmark moment” for the U.S. military.



President Trump and Vice President Mike Pence as the new US Space Command flag is unfurled in the Rose Garden.


By Christian Davenport and Paul Sonne August 29 at 6:03 PM


President Trump on Thursday took a key step toward reorganizing the nation’s armed forces to focus more on the threats posed in space, formally establishing the United States Space Command, the first new combatant command created in more than a decade.

In a 10-minute ceremony in the Rose Garden, Trump called the command’s creation a “landmark moment” in protecting America’s assets in space and said it would help “defend America’s vital interests in space, the next warfighting domain, and I think that’s pretty obvious to everybody. It’s all about space.”

The White House is still working toward persuading Congress to create a Space Force, which would become the sixth branch of the military and the first new one since the Air Force was created in 1947. Both the House and Senate have provisions for a Space Force in their Pentagon spending bills, but they differ on some key details, such as how the force would be organized.

[struggle4progress]

1. "Just think how proud you will feel to be called a space cadet!"

[Farmer-Rick]

2. United States Space Cadets

[montanacowboy]

3. There's Two Space Cadets alright

Jesus Christ, let's send them to whatever planet is the furthest away from Earth

[C_U_L8R]

4. Looks like a cartoon eagle.

Space farce, indeed.

[Dagstead Bumwood]

5. Space Command?

1996 called: they want the name of a never-made Pauley Shore comedy back.

[Submariner]

6. Whoever is the next Democratic Party president, he or she needs to scrap this

Space Command BS, including going back to the original colors and paint job to Air Force 1.

[Thomas Hurt]

7. Trump grift....rename things and proclaim....VICTORY, taa dah!

[FakeNoose]

8. Oh pul-ease!

[backtoblue]

9. Are we at a global arms race yet?

[magicarpet]

10. Does it have,..

A burning Christian cross,..
And a swastika on the flag ?

That will leave trDump's and Pence's fingerprints all over it - and then really excite their Fascist base so they are foaming at the mouth.

[keithbvadu2]

11. Trump should use his personal eagle.

Trump should use his personal eagle.

[Claritie Pixie]

12. He looks really awful in that pic. Not healthy.

[Celerity]

13. Precursor to the US version of the Terran Federation Space Fleet

Starship Troopers

The ideology of militarism and the fact that only military veterans had the right to vote in the novel's fictional society led to it being frequently described as fascist.