{"id":1049838,"date":"2026-09-08T00:19:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T00:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1049838\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T00:19:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T00:19:18","slug":"trump-posts-space-force-uniforms-derived-from-fascist-inspired-starship-troopers-outfits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1049838\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump posts Space Force uniforms derived from \u2018fascist\u2019-inspired Starship Troopers outfits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">US President Donald Trump posted an image of dark \u201cnext generation\u201d US Space Force uniforms on Sunday that the text claims were \u201cinspired by the discipline and functionality of the Starship Trooper uniform\u201d \u2013 a design the director of the 1997 film Starship Troopers said was directly meant to evoke Nazis.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Trump also posted an AI-generated image titled \u201cSpace Force\u201d of himself in a spaceship as two nuclear mushroom clouds detonate on Earth behind him, part of a frenzy of Truth Social postings over the weekend that also included AI images of himself in a decorated military uniform and pondering changing \u201cNew Mexico\u201d to \u201cNew America\u201d.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The \u201cnext generation\u201d uniforms, the image text stated, were \u201cmodernised for the Guardians of the space domain\u201d.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The Space Force, which Trump signed into law in 2019, had already announced new service dress uniforms for their Guardians last year.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">But Trump\u2019s post was of black boots, black shirts and \u201cmidnight black\u201d collars, seemingly evoking the villains in a science fiction film \u2013 which is what they were.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"An image from the 1995 film Starship Troopers. Photo: Handout\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/be93c9d1-8002-45d4-89d2-f241403e1783_a18f5966.jpg\" title=\"An image from the 1995 film Starship Troopers. Photo: Handout\"\/>An image from the 1995 film Starship Troopers. Photo: Handout<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Paul Verhoeven, the Dutch director of the 1995 film based on Robert Heinlein\u2019s 1959 novel about a space military fighting giant alien insects, said his film was about \u201cfascists who aren\u2019t aware of their fascism\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US President Donald Trump posted an image of dark \u201cnext generation\u201d US Space Force uniforms on Sunday that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1049839,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[28],"tags":[691,12981,276,4439,69,171,723,62483,117323,53,66816,11198,420385,11268,305861,5200,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-1049838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-ai","tag-brevard-county","tag-california","tag-colorado","tag-donald-trump","tag-entertainment","tag-florida","tag-guardians","tag-leni-riefenstahl","tag-movies","tag-nazis","tag-new-mexico","tag-paul-verhoeven","tag-space-force","tag-starship-troopers","tag-truth-social","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1049838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1049839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1049838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1049838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1049838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}