US President Donald Trump has give tongue to a desire to put up a “ Space Force ” . Nope , that is n’t his latest reality TV series , it is an idea to countersink up a new branch of military that would protect America ’s place in the geopolitical order through the militarization of space .

“ distance is a warfighting domain , just like the land , air , and ocean , " Trumptold the crowdat a Marine Corps base in Miramar , California , on Tuesday . “ We may even have a Space Force , develop another one , Space Force . We have the Air Force , we ’ll have the Space Force . ”

“ I was saying it the other daytime – because we ’re doing a marvelous amount of piece of work in outer space   –   I say , perchance we need a new effect . We ’ll call it the Space Force and I was not really serious , ” he run on . “ And then I said , what a great theme . possibly we ’ll have to do that . That could happen . ”

He then orient towards the press box and sound out something about “ phoney news ” , to which the crowd wildly extravasate in applause .

It might sound like the talk of a guy wire who observe too much sci - fi late at night in seam ( and the name need a little bit of work ) , but it closely mirrors the rhetoric of other high - outrank US officials . Last month , David L Goldfein , a General in the US Air Force , said : “ I believe we ’re going to befighting from spacein a matter of years . ”

Goldfein tell today that he was " excited about the dialogue , " accord toThe Hill .

Bizarrely , however , Trump ’s administration actuallyrejected the proposalto make a“Space Corps”last class . I guess SpaceX ’s recent successes interchange his mind ?

In another input at the late speech , Trump took the opportunity to take a shaft at his former antagonist Hillary Clinton , boasting : “ Very soon we ’re plump to Mars . You would n’t be going to Mars if my adversary win , that I can tell you . You would n’t even be cogitate about it . ”

That ’s not exactly true . The Obama administration ’s antecedency for NASA ’s man exploration was to put humans on Mars by the mid-2030s . Trump ’s administration changed that goal toput human race back on the Moon , then eventually to   Mars . Clinton has never expressed any desire to change Obama ’s design , but hey , political relation being politics , anything is potential .

Needless to say , his words was enough to transmit the cyberspace into its usual pop cultivation - infuse overdrive :