Rapidcreek@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 11 months agoTrump Calls for ‘Giant Dome’ to Protect the US ‘From a Hostile Source’themessenger.comexternal-linkmessage-square150fedilinkarrow-up1362arrow-down137
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minus-squarekromem@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·edit-211 months agoIf you watch the video he goes on rambling about how “MIT graduates” go “bing bong boom” and shoot down an incoming missile “and then it’s gone.” So yes, he seems aware it’s a missile intercept program and not a literal physical dome.
minus-squaregrabyourmotherskeys@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·11 months agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Dome Or he could have referred to the actual system and explained it like a moderately intelligent adult, not a nine year old.
If you watch the video he goes on rambling about how “MIT graduates” go “bing bong boom” and shoot down an incoming missile “and then it’s gone.”
So yes, he seems aware it’s a missile intercept program and not a literal physical dome.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Dome
Or he could have referred to the actual system and explained it like a moderately intelligent adult, not a nine year old.