Trump's 'Golden Dome' missile shield could cost hundreds of billions

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: CNN Politics

5:00 AM EDT, Mon May 19, 2025


CNN — The Pentagon has submitted small, medium and large options to the White House for developing “Golden Dome,” President Donald Trump’s vision for a cutting-edge missile shield that can protect the US from long-range strikes that will likely cost hundreds of billions of dollars, according to multiple sources familiar with the plans. Trump is expected to announce his preferred option – and its price point – in the coming days, a decision that will ultimately chart a path forward for funding, developing and implementing the space-based missile defense system over the next several years.

Whatever option Trump opts for, it won’t be cheap; $25 billion has been carved out in next year’s defense budget for the system, but the Congressional Budget Office has estimated the US could have to spend more than $500 billion – over the course of 20 years – to develop a viable Golden Dome. The project will also present a bonanza for private contractors as the government won’t be able to build it alone, with companies including Elon Musk’s SpaceX in the running for highly lucrative contracts related to the system.

The Department of Defense “has developed a draft architecture and implementation plan for a Golden Dome system that will protect Americans and our homeland from a wide range of global missile threats,” chief Pentagon spokesman and senior adviser Sean Parnell told CNN in a statement. “The Secretary of Defense and other Department leaders have engaged with the President to present options and look forward to announcing the path forward in the coming days,” Parnell added.

A key part of the implementation plan will be the establishment of a direct reporting program manager – also known as a “golden dome czar” – who can oversee the development and deployment of the highly complex system, according to three sources familiar with the conversations. Gen. Michael A. Guetlein, vice chief of space operations at the US Space Force, is under close consideration for the role, the sources said, noting he is a four-star general with experience in the procurement of missile defense systems and emerging space-based capabilities. For now, however, there is still a lot of uncertainty surrounding Golden Dome and what it will ultimately look like.

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[C_U_L8R]

1. If his Great Big Wall fiasco is any guide...

This is gonna be a Golden Mushroom.

[creeksneakers2]

2. Nobody is firing missiles at us.

Nobody will either.

[BurnDoubt]

3. What a waste.

He Will give Putin a kill-switch... just in case. He CAN"T be trusted, and his loyalties are for sale, just like everything else in his transactional little world. I bet Edolph gets a big piece of this Grift. I can smell it already. But he and his buddies will be safe under their Dome at Mar-A-Lago Gaza. The Greatification is under way and on time. There's still time... supplications and donations are being accepted now! Don't Wait!... Oh, Wait... you don't have very good cards. Sorry!

[BurnDoubt]

4. I can't wait to see...

What he'd do if he didn't fear retaliation. MAGAlomania is a danger to all Life on this planet.

[Irish_Dem]

5. No money for the American people. Plenty of money for Trump scams.

[slightlv]

7. Oh, yeah... lots of chances for mounds of kickbacks with this idea!

Beyond that, America doesn't do "complex" anything anymore. We're too dumb to understand it, let alone accomplish it. And with the brain drain heading out of our country to parts unknown, we're not going to have the intelligence levels for several years, if not a full couple of generations. Maybe we can talk him into just parking that ferret he wears on his head over the country, instead.

[Irish_Dem]

8. Golden dome is a giant scam and boondoggle.

Trump has no intention of actually building anything.
So no need for any brain power.

In all fairness the huge amount of hairspray on his wig might provide some protection against incoming missiles.
And the orange drag queen make up would scare the hell out of the enemy.

[slightlv]

6. Crap... not this shit again.

We had to deal with years of Reagan's Star Wars programs. Then we get a big beautiful wall that Mexico will pay for, via D trump. Now he wants to put the whole US under a dome? Anybody else read Stephen King? /snark

Somebody shoot this man and put him out of our misery, or get him admitted into a memory home for his (and the world's) best interests. This man is dementia city. My mom wasn't even this far gone when she died earlier this year. He's far, far worse than she was on her worst day.

[Balatro]

9. Ah yes. That perfect defense against the new ever-so-present threat of Canada

and their constant Katyusha rocket barrages.....

[JohnnyRingo]

10. Doesn't it figure he would rename "Iron Dome" to Golden Dome?

Somebody has to inventory Ft Knox before our gold reserves end up offshore.
I'm sure he can't help himself with his Gold Fever.

[Xolodno]

27. Well, on the bright side....

....he didn't call it golden shower.

[JohnnyRingo]

34. hahaha

Someone probably advised him to change it.

Still, he goes overseas and gets so jealous what other leaders have or are doing. He wanted a military like N Korea, a palace like the Kremlin, a jet like Qatar, and now a mighty bubble of air defenses.

Israel is a small country but he seems to think we can put an Iron Dome over the US. Maybe he just wants it over Mar a Lago and a couple golf courses.

[sindri]

11. A totally free option to prevent air strikes would be

to just not be an asshole to every ally we have. That wouldn't make Trump and friends rich though so, no deal.

[Mysterian]

12. Just like the billions for Reagan's "Star Wars" scam

The USA got nuthin' but billionaires got a bunch of taxpayer money.

[angrycaveman]

13. At least we got a decent movie out of Reagan's Star Wars debauchery

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090056/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk
Spies like Us

[IcyPeas]

14. " $25 billion has been carved out in next year's defense budget for the system"

Watch this space.

How much will end up in trump and his cronies' pockets. There will be no accountability by the appointed czar.

[twodogsbarking]

15. Peace could be cheaper and definitely better but, nope.

[Nigrum Cattus]

16. 100% Impossible

They tried with "star wars" BS during the Reagan failed years.
Every time we or anyone comes up with defenses the enemy adapts.

[electricmonk]

17. Health care? Nope can't afford it.

Pointless, stupidly expensive weapons system? Sure no problem.

[Figarosmom]

18. What good is somthing

That will be outdated before it is finished? It's up and running date is 2045. It's obsolete before the first use.

[LudwigPastorius]

19. Golden Pork Boondoggle

Again, why do we need to shoot down ICBMs when we have the capability of obliterating any country that fires one against us?

It's called deterrence, and it has worked for 67 years.

[Marie Marie]

20. Isn't Elon a part of making billions off of something to do with this??

[Karasu]

22. After letting DOGE fire our top nuclear weapons scientists? Give me a fucking break. This dumbfuck administration is

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full of unstable clowns and infinitely more likely to instigate nuclear armageddon than prevent it, no matter how many taxpayer dollars they throw at this crap.

Not to mention...something this expensive blows the absolute pittance DOGE has "saved" out of the water.

[Picaro]

23. Putin's vision for bankrupting the US

This isn’t remotely feasible. The only reason Iron Dome (the Israeli air shield system) kind of works sometimes is the small air space. It still fails more often than works.

But it would be insanely expensive and our military eye would be completely off the ball long term.

That would be the goal I think.

[BlueKentuckyGirl]

24. We wouldn't need a golden shield if,

We stopped pissing off the whole world.

[jmowreader]

25. I can solve the problem of potential attack for less than $1000, using existing technology

I will turn on my HP Indigo digital press, print up a bunch of 8x10 cards featuring Trump's picture overlaid with text reading, "If you even think of attacking the US we will give this man to you and you'll be stuck with him," and mail them out to every foreign leader.

This wlll absolutely work because the rest of the world wants to put up with the bastard even less than we do.

[NoMoreRepugs]

26. Of course VonSchitzInPants wants a GOLDEN dome, he craps on a golden toilet doesn't he?

[JMCKUSICK]

28. Man, imagine it

Trump's dreams come true A Golden Shower of missiles defending us.

[Bread and Circuses]

29. This is a direct way to put money in his pockets....

Give government contracts to his pals, who split the obscene payments and then go bankrupt!

[Oopsie Daisy]

30. I remember when the USSR spent all of their money and national resources on trying to out-do the world...

... it was the beginning of the end. Does that same fate await our once-great nation?

[Javaman]

31. just another money laundering grift. just like ray-guns Star Wars bullshit. nt

[JCMach1]

32. Whatever the size, this is Elon's payout

Literally his Golden Parachute

[travelingthrulife]

33. And Traitor Trump has been told repeatedly that it won't work.

[Martin68]

35. Here we go again with a Ronald Reagan-type "Star Wars"-type missile defense system. Why are authoritarians so obsessed

with scams like this that promise to make the country invulnerable to missile attack?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

36. And I suppose Eloon's going to build it