{"id":118508,"date":"2025-05-21T01:22:22","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T01:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/118508\/"},"modified":"2025-05-21T01:22:22","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T01:22:22","slug":"trump-picks-us175-billion-golden-dome-design-to-block-china-russia-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/118508\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump picks US$175 billion Golden Dome design to block China, Russia threats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he had selected a design for the US$175 billion Golden Dome missile defence shield and named a Space Force general to lead the effort to build the ambitious defence programme aimed at blocking threats from China and Russia.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Trump announced at a White House press conference that US Space Force General Michael Guetlein would be the lead programme manager for what the president said would be a US$175 billion project, an effort widely viewed as the keystone to Trump\u2019s military planning.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Golden Dome will \u201cprotect our homeland\u201d, Trump said from the Oval Office, adding that Canada had said it wanted to be part of it.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">First ordered by Trump in January, Golden Dome aims to create a network of satellites to detect, track and potentially intercept incoming missiles. The shield could deploy hundreds of satellites for missile detection and tracking.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">At a cost of US$175 billion, it will take years to implement, as the controversial programme faces both political scrutiny and funding uncertainty.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"US Space Force General Michael Guetlein (right) speaks as US President Donald Trump makes an announcement regarding the Golden Dome missile defence shield in the Oval Office on Tuesday. Photo: Reuters\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/4fd3041e-5b6b-417d-affb-93b4adf31ee0_ff4acee5.jpg\" title=\"US Space Force General Michael Guetlein (right) speaks as US President Donald Trump makes an announcement regarding the Golden Dome missile defence shield in the Oval Office on Tuesday. Photo: Reuters\"\/>US Space Force General Michael Guetlein (right) speaks as US President Donald Trump makes an announcement regarding the Golden Dome missile defence shield in the Oval Office on Tuesday. Photo: Reuters<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Democratic lawmakers have voiced concern about the procurement process and the involvement of Trump ally Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX, which has emerged as a front runner alongside Palantir and Anduril to build key components of the system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he had selected a design for the US$175 billion Golden Dome&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118509,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[32,17982,53029,28102,602,332,53030,53031,978,1018],"class_list":{"0":"post-118508","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-golden-dome","10":"tag-michael-guetlein","11":"tag-oval-office","12":"tag-pete-hegseth","13":"tag-russia","14":"tag-secretary-of-defense","15":"tag-united-states-space-force","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-white-house"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114543209124805832","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}