hahahaah someone clearly used the words ‘israel iron dome’ in his presence, and this is the result.
what a fucking idiot.
I also think it’s finally sunk in that the wall idea will never actually work. And then someone said “iron dome”, and his brain concluded that a dome sounds more bad-ass than a wall, anyway.
Recall he has said that his temperment now and when he was in first grade is “not all that different”. So whenever you try to work out his thought process, it helps to think like a seven-year-old. (Not six: If Trump were a kid today, his parents would have definitely held him back a year)
Alternative hypothesis: he’s also been listening to flat-earthers who think there’s a crystal dome keeping the air from leaking into space, and he got both ideas mixed together in his brain.
Doesn’t dementia affect a person’s ability to recognize metaphor?
So dose Ameridome temperature IQ.
what does that mean ?
I think it’s supposed to read “So does Ameridome temperature IQ”
Which is a riff on room-temperature IQ (something in the 60-70s, 100 IQ being the supposed average).
I see thanks
Maybe it’s some kind of metaphor?
Maybe he just watched Biodome with Pauly Shore?
Buuuuhhdy!
Or the Simpson movie. With his favorite fiction inspirational character, Spider Pig.
If you watch the surrounding context, he is absolutely talking about a missile intercept program. He referred to “MIT graduates” going “bing bong boom” to make an incoming missile “completely gone.”
So all the comments acting as if he wants a physical giant dome are attacking a strawman while the actual fact he’s taking about missile defense like a five year old is lampoon-worthy enough.
He doesn’t understand it enough to explain it and that is why the “poorly educated” love him.
Trump criticized sending “billions of dollars out of the countries so they can build a dome, but we don’t have a dome ourselves.”
“We’re going to have the greatest dome ever,” he continued.
It astounds me that anyone is willing to vote for someone this stupid. It’s not an act. He is legitimately stupid. That’s been on full display this past fucking decade.
We will build a dome that covers the entire 3.5 million square miles of the United States of America, and Mexico is gonna pay for it. This will also solve Climate Change for America, except that it is a liberal hoax anyway.
I just want to know when we’re going to implement his plan to nuke hurricanes?
The answer is always Two Weeks.
Correct. Bonus points for gesturing vaguely to lots of binders full of blank paper.
What? You think Israel’s dome is better than ours? Theirs isn’t even a real dome its just missiles! We’re gonna put a real American dome around our country!
I’m certain this is like his “invisible jets” stuff he is always spewing about, where someone demonstrated our military being able to protect the US from outside missile attacks by showing him a picture with a “dome” over the US to illustrate how it would be all covered or something. And since he isn’t all there these days he thinks of it as a literal “dome”, just like the jets are actually invisible (not just to radar).
Edit - ha even dumber! I see someone mentioned the Iron Dome over Israel as probably what he is trying to convey in his word salad.
Holy shit.
Not just stupid - he’s legitimately demented and an obvious sociopath. The fact that he literally smells like shit and ketchup is just that soupçon of chef’s kiss that makes him the pinnacle of the republiQan party.
Well done republiQans. No wonder you’re so goddamned proud.
/nottheonion ?
America might not have started the dome race, but by jingo it’s gonna end it!
I’m gonna guess that what he’s attempting to refer to here is the Iron Dome system of Israeli fame.
We already have anti-ballistic missile systems:
- the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense system is exactly what it sounds like
- Aegis, Patriot, and THAAD are all short-range, terminal phase anti-ballistic-capable systems.
Also, to be clear, it would be a very bad idea for the US to pursue an expansion of the GMD system to be “impermeable” to a peer state, because not only would it be cripplingly expensive (even in the context of US military budgets), but it would also diminish the disincentive of doing a nuclear first strike (which would obviously lead directly to an intercontinental nuclear war), and you can guess who would want to do something like that.
Joke’s on you, in the time it took you to write out this informed rebuttal he’s already moved on to wet magnets.
Slop 'em up
Can’t wait for Trump to advocate for a monorail.
Monorails would reduce the cost of rails by 50%.
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No one ever thought he was elected to read lol
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Except most cases of illegal immigration people come here through legal channels and overstay their visa. In other words the people he’s trying to keep out are already here and that’s just another reason know he’s a smooth brained moron and a vile racist
i read that more immigrants come through LAX than the entire northern and southern and coastal borders every year.
The really dumb thing about it is that they’re literally migrants crossing the border, which is why the media refers to them that way. The frightening numbers that we hear about crossing the border each day into the U.S. are offset by large numbers of people crossing the border back to Mexico. The net-inmigration is much lower, and lots of times even negative. (More people leave.) The truth isn’t scary enough, though.
He knows Thanos is coming.
As impenetrable as the dome protecting trump and republicans from reality.
…sooo how’s that wall going?
Seems like that’d be the first step in building a dome, but the best we could do was a couple of stretches of fence. I’m sure it’ll be fine - Trump is a man of his word after all.
I genuinely view conservatism as a mental illness at this point.
the reason magas love the guy? he speaks fluent moron.
He… he knows that Israel’s “Iron Dome” isn’t LITERALLY a dome, right? Like the Iron Curtain wasn’t ACTUALLY a curtain.
It’s probably safer to not presume…
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.
he knows that Israel’s “Iron Dome” isn’t LITERALLY a dome, right?
This is Trump. That statement is NOT a given by any means. Odds are he does think exactly that.
further, the “iron dome” of israel wouldn’t cover the state of florida. can you even imagine the logistics of trying to install one to cover the continental united states?
He thinks radar invisible jets can’t be seen by the human eye
I can’t wait till his supporters start the, “he isn’t being literal” thing again until he says the, “THE DOME JUST GOT 10FEET TALLE’r”
By this logic, Margaret Thatcher isn’t really a lady.
Well of course not, she’s dead. ;)
The great iron curtain, it can be seen from space!
I’m not saying Trump’s any kind of actual “stable genius”, but he’s not as dumb as he acts. Just like George W Bush did, he plays social media, exploiting what I like to call the “pro wrestling fallacy” that liberals fall for every time.
Back in the nineties, seemingly educated, largely-Democrat-leaning people would talk about how dumb wrestling fans were, since it’s all obviously faked. The largely-Republican-leaning wrestling fans knew it was fake, it’s a show ffs, they aren’t five year olds, and they naturally felt really insulted, contributing to the growth of a divide that we see today - redcaps against the rest of us. You’d even get people passionately arguing that it’s real, maybe to feel like they’re kind of part of the show, maybe just to troll the “liberal elitists” who were looking down on them.
Every time Dubya said something like “misunderestimated”, “is our children learning”, or “catapult the propaganda”, we all made fun of it, it was talked about on the talking head shows, maybe even a bit on Saturday Night Live. To us, he looked dumb, but his messages got more circulation, his name was said more, and the people who already felt this (actually ivy-league educated scion of a wealthy elitist family) was just a regular guy they could have a bear with, people who could empathize with not having the perfect words all the time, they felt like we were making fun of them - which, in a way, we were. They loved him for being one of them.
In a lot of ways, Trump has just taken that to the next level. He’s a master of getting us to attack him, in a way that make large parts of the country love him, and it works.
… was just a regular guy they could have a bear with
… fuck yes.
Oof lol, takes on a new meaning
Bush was definitely acting dumb. I realized this was not just a hunch when watching a recording of him giving a minor speech on foreign policy to some group of media that covered this (like foreign press assn or something).
He was articulate, intelligent, using “big words”, and had dropped the aw shucks accent. The speech was measured and insightful.
I don’t agree with his politics but the idiot thing was an act to trick the rubes.
He went full Burns.
You know, when I watch, uh, our guys operate those things, it’s unbelievable. Missile coming in, missile coming in. These geniuses sit down. Most of them are, you know, they’re from MIT. But they sit down, bing bing bing bing, boom, ph-sheee. It’s gone. It’s amazing. I think we could use, do you like that? I mean, isn’t that better than giving other countries billions of dollars? Billions. We’re going to get billions of dollars out of the countries and so they can build a dome, but we don’t have a dome ourselves. We’re going to have the greatest dome ever.
He’s clearly not talking about a literal physical dome.
Clickbait.
He heard someone talking about this, probably: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Dome
Which is still stupid, because the we already have this tech.
So… Patriots
Are you sure about that? With that word salad, who can really be sure what he’s thinking.
What I’m taking away from this transcript is that he is indeed talking about a real-ass dome
I never thought he was talking about a literal wall. Im not getting wooshed again.
I don’t know why they bother, reading the verbatim transcript of what he said is more entertaining than any clickbait.
Only video I found … During the “pshee” he’s clearly gesturing a missile interception.
This isn’t “sunlight in your body” stupidity, he’s using an established metaphor to talk about a comprehensive missile defense system.
And he’ll make the aliens pay for it.
Can’t wait for the maga folks to defend this saying things like “he didn’t mean that”
Well, to be fair, he probably came up with it after hearing about Israel’s Iron Dome. So he might’ve meant something like that. Or he might think it’s a literal dome. Who can say with Trump.
It would basically pay for itself, with the savings from not having to nuke the hurricanes.
Won’t matter. We’ll make THE SKY pay for it!!!
Does he not understand or care that the Patriots we’re giving to Ukraine ARE a dome that does what he’s talking about?
If you’re talking about trump and ask ‘does he understand’, the answer is ‘no’.
My life experience tells me we will never agree on a thermostat setting.
