Trump Announces ‘The Golden Dome Missile Defense Shield’: ‘It Should Be Fully Operational Before the End of My Term’

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TRUMP: “As we make a historic announcement about the Golden Dome missile defense shield, that’s something we want, and Ronald Reagan wanted it many years ago, but they didn’t have the technology. But it’s something we’re going to have. We’re going to have it at the highest level. I want to thank Secretary Hegseth, who has been fantastic, and Secretary Rubio and Space Force Vice Chief of Space Operations, General Mike Guetlein. I also want to recognize Senators Dan Sullivan, Kevin Cramer and Jim Banks. Fantastic senators, great talents, great political talents, and people that love our country. In the campaign, I promised the American people that I would build a cutting-edge missile defense shield to protect our homeland from the threat of foreign missile attack. And that’s what we’re doing. Today I’m pleased to announce that we have officially selected an architecture for this state-of-the-art system that will deploy next-generation technologies across the land, sea and space, including space-based sensors and interceptors. And 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, do the best we can.”