The space warfare president

""We were losing the race in space very badly to China and to Russia, and now we're far and away No. 1 in space," Trump claimed. "We're [reestablishing] SPACECOM with a mission to protect American space assets and detect any threat to our homeland.""

""The trend from the first Trump administration to the second Trump administration is definitely a solid support of the military in space, in terms of making it a priority," Victoria Samson, the chief director of space security and stability at nonprofit Secure World Foundation, told Axios. "The Space Force has been much more vocal about space being a warfighting domain, that there's going to be a war in space and that we need to be able to handle it," Samson said."

President Trump announced the relocation of U.S. Space Command to Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama, saying the move will help America defend and dominate the high frontier. He claimed the United States has surged to the top in space after previously lagging behind China and Russia and said SPACECOM will protect American space assets and detect threats to the homeland. The Golden Dome initiative aims to deploy space-based interceptors as a missile shield that the president says will end the missile threat within three years, though experts remain skeptical. Senior military leaders and Space Force officials have increasingly framed space as a warfighting domain and advocated for weapons in space.

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