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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)

Doesn't dementia affect a person's ability to recognize metaphor?

Maybe he just watched Biodome with Pauly Shore?

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’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.

Can't wait for Trump to advocate for a monorail.

I...I kind of wonder if he means something like the iron dome that Israel has. I'm trying to translate his senile brain into something that is tangible.

But then again.. we're talking about a man who said a nuke could get rid of a hurricane.

Sigh

fear is how they control their base. its not logic, which is why we cant argue with them.

It's crazy how easily manipulated they are. I think that must be why Republican politicians are so goddamned detestable, you have to be a POS to be taking advantage of people like that in the first place. They know they're going after less-educated people, taking advantage of their fears, and soaking up whatever money or power they have to give. Just constantly throwing out these new threats for people to be afraid of to distract them from the fact that they're robbing them blind and directly working against their own base's interests. Like, as long as you don't mind lying to people on a regular basis, have at least some small amount of charisma and don't feel bad attacking some other minority group, you can probably do ok in the Republican party, regardless of whatever you've done in the past.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5793824/

They're literally, physiologically hypersensitive to fear.

I was elected to lead, not to read.

He heard someone talking about this, probably: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Dome

Are you sure about that? With that word salad, who can really be sure what he's thinking.

If you’re talking about trump and ask ‘does he understand’, the answer is ‘no’.