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As Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced that they were financing a $175 billion project to build a missile defense system, the U.S. President’s word choices sparked new dementia fears.

After announcing the plan to build a $175 billion ‘Golden Dome’ to press in the White House’s Oval Office on Thursday, Trump directed everyone to look at the portraits around his desk. He named the first two Presidents no problem, but then began to stutter when he got to Monroe.

“That’s Monroe from the … uh … Monroe docu… document,” Trump finally said. Unlike Joe Biden, who always had a stutter, the sudden inability to recall elementary school facts about the Monroe Doctrine has sparked new fears of his mental state online.

US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth looks on as US President Donald Trump struggled to get a phrase out
“It’s truly a spectacle to watch MAGA loyalists stand there, nervously smiling and laughing, as they endure a “history lesson” from someone who just claimed the Declaration of Independence was about “peace and love.” The irony is palpable,” wrote one user on X. Another laughed, “The reaction of Hegseth’s eyes,” pointing out the shock on the faces around Trump.

It was reported that part of the project will allegedly cost $175 billion in total, with $25 billion earmarked in the ‘Big Beautiful Bill.’ The project is reportedly similar to Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system. Trump also announced that Canada will ‘be a part of it.’

“This design for the Golden Dome will integrate with our existing defense capabilities and should be fully operational before the end of my term, so we’ll have it done in about three years,” Trump explained.

Pete Hegseth took the microphone and called the project a ‘promise kept.’ Hegseth lauded the President for ‘protecting’ America from “hypersonic missiles, ballistic missiles, and advanced cruise missiles.”

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Trump has appointed General Michael Guetlein to oversee the project, due to be completed with the end of the presidential term. Guetlein is known for his work on Trump’s ‘Space Force,’ which Trump bragged about in the Oval Office as well.

“Space Force has turned out to be a tremendous success. We were 3rd in space and now we’re number one in space by a lot. It’s not even close,” Trump reminisced as he explained by General Guetlein was selected for this position.

Trump had previously teased the project last week when he sat down with Fox News’s Brett Baier just before traveling home from the Middle East.

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“We’re going to build the Iron Dome. We deserve an Iron Dome, you know. See, we call it two names,” Trump told the news anchor. “So I was going to call it the Iron Dome, because that’s the name everyone has heard of for years. But to me, it was old-fashioned. So we changed it recently to the golden dome, the beautiful golden dome, and it matches Ronald Reagan.”

It was reported that Trump first floated the idea of constructing his “Golden Dome” during his address to a joint session of Congress in March. Some users on social media commenting on the president’s plan questioned whether Trump thinks the “Golden Dome” is a physical dome over the U.S., rather than a missile defense system.

“With Trump, you cannot be entirely sure he doesn’t think it’s an actual physical dome,” one user wrote on X (formerly Twitter). “I think Trump thinks the Iron Dome is actually some sort of physical dome,” another user wrote.