- 5/21/2025
Trump has unveiled the ambitious $175 billion "Golden Dome" Missile Defense System, promising near-total protection for the U.S. homeland. Designed to intercept hypersonic missiles, nuclear warheads, ballistic threats, and even space-based attacks, the Golden Dome is being hailed as America’s next big leap in defense. Trump says the system will be fully operational within three years and calls it the fulfillment of Ronald Reagan’s long-held missile shield vision.
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00:00Thank you very much and thank you for being here in the Oval Office in the great places of the world as we make a historic announcement about the Golden Dome Missile Defense Shield. That's something we want and Ronald Reagan wanted it many years ago but they didn't have the technology but it's something we're going to have. We're going to have it at the highest level.
00:22I want to thank Secretary Hegseth who's been fantastic and Secretary Rubio and Space Force Vice Chief of Space Operations General Mike Guttlein. I also want to recognize Senators Dan Sullivan, Kevin Kramer and Jim Banks. Fantastic senators, great talents, great political talents and people that love our country.
00:44In the campaign I promised the American people that I would build a cutting edge missile defense shield to protect our homeland from the threat of foreign missile attack. And that's what we're doing. Today I'm pleased to announce that we have officially selected an architecture for this state-of-the-art system that will deploy next generation technologies across the land, sea and space including space-based sensors and interceptors.
01:11Canada has called us and Canada has called us and Canada has called us and they want to be a part of it. So we'll be talking to them. They want to have protection also. So as usual we help Canada do the best we can.
01:24This 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.
01:35Once fully constructed, once fully constructed, the Golden Dome will be capable of intercepting missiles even if they are launched from other sides of the world and even if they are launched from space.
01:47And we will have the best system ever built. As you know, we helped Israel with theirs and was very successful. And now we have technology that's even far advanced from that.
01:59But including hypersonic missiles, ballistic missiles, and advanced cruise missiles, all of them will be knocked out of the air.
02:09We will truly be completing the job that President Reagan started 40 years ago, forever ending the missile threat to the American homeland.
02:17And the success rate is very close to 100 percent, which is incredible when you think of it, you're shooting bullets out of the air.
02:23I'm also pleased to report that the one big, beautiful bill will include $25 billion for the Golden Dome to help construction get underway.
02:33That's the initial sort of a down posit. And we have probably you're talking about General, we're talking about $175 billion total cost of this when it's completed.
02:47This afternoon, I'm also announcing that I will appoint, very importantly, General Guttlein to lead the ambitious new effort as the direct reporting program manager for the Golden Dome.
03:00Very talented man. And I'm very honored to have been the one that helped or really created Space Force.
03:06Space Force has turned out to be a tremendous success. We were third in space and now we're number one in space by a lot.
03:13It's not even close. And Mike is a four star Space Force General, the recipient of the Defense Distinguished Service Medal, one of the most respected people in the world having to do with defense.
03:27You know, we have offensive, we have defense. I'll bet he's good at offense and is an unmatched background in missile warning technology and defense procurement.
03:36General Guttlein also knows that we need to move fast. No one is more qualified for his job and everybody.
03:43This was a universal acceptance of General Guttlein. Everybody that knows him and knows everybody else, they said there's only one man for the job, so I have a feeling we have the right guy.
03:54But now I'd like to invite Secretary Hegseth and the General to please say a few words and describe the system a little bit.
04:03And we appreciate you being here. The press has really been very fair over the last period of a couple of months.
04:09I don't know what happened to you. It was so much more exciting the other way.
04:13But you've been very, very fair. We have very high poll numbers, the highest we've ever had.
04:18And I think we're doing a great job. We had a tremendous trip to the Middle East, as you know.
04:23It was a really amazing trip. And now I came home and this is the one I was really looking forward to this day,
04:30because this is very important for the success and even survival of our country.
04:36It's a pretty evil world out there. So this is something that goes a long way toward the survival of this great country.
04:44And as I said, we'll be discussing Canada. They want to hook in and they want to see if they can be a part of it.
04:51That sort of makes sense. I guess that's what I was talking about from day one.
04:55You know, it automatically makes sense and it won't be very difficult to do, but they'll pay their fair share.
05:01Thank you very much, everybody. And Pete, go ahead.
05:04Well, Mr. President, add this to the long and growing list of promises made and promises kept.
05:11Ultimately, this right here, the Golden Dome for America is game changer.
05:15It's a generational investment in the security of America and Americans.
05:20Mr. President, you said we're to secure our southern border and get 100 percent operational control after the previous administration allowed an invasion of people into our country.
05:30President Reagan, 40 years ago, cast the vision for the technology wasn't there.
05:35Now it is. And you're following through to say we will protect the homeland from cruise missiles, ballistic missiles, hypersonic missiles, drones, whether they're conventional or nuclear.
05:46And it's not lost on me, sir. Also, that you had the vision to start the Space Force.
05:52And here we are in the when the others said we didn't need it.
05:55Here we are in the Oval Office with one of the leaders of the Space Force in general boot line leading the charge on putting in place a game changing golden dome for America.
06:05So, sir, it's an honor to be a part of this bold initiative. We're going to get to work on it.
06:09We have been since you signed that executive order on January 27th.
06:13We've been fast forward on this. We're here on this day.
06:15And this is just one stop in delivering this defense of the homeland, which is which is something you've charged us with doing.
06:21And we'll keep going until it is complete, sir.
06:24Thank you, Pete. Peace down a great job, by the way. Thank you very much.
06:27General, please.
06:28Mr. President, today is a great day for the nation as we double down on protection of our homeland.
06:32As you're aware, our adversaries have become very capable and very intent on holding the homeland at risk.
06:38While we have been focused on peaking the peace overseas, our adversaries have been quickly modernizing their nuclear forces,
06:45building out ballistic missiles capable of hosting multiple warheads,
06:49building out hypersonic missiles capable of attacking the United States within an hour and traveling at 6,000 miles an hour,
06:55building cruise missiles that can navigate around our radar and our defenses,
06:59building submarines that can sneak up on our shores, and worse yet, building space weapons.
07:04It is time that we change that equation and start doubling down on the protection of the homeland.
07:08Golden Dome is a bold and aggressive approach to hurry up and protect the homeland from our adversaries.
07:14We owe it to our children and our children's children to protect them and afford them a quality of life that we have all grown up enjoying.
07:22Golden Dome will afford that.
07:24I greatly appreciate your trust in me and your nomination in me and your trust in the team to deliver this.
07:29It is a great day for America.
07:31And also, very importantly, we're the only ones that have this, we call it super technology.
07:36Nobody else has it.
07:37And nobody else has nearly, really near what we have.
07:42So this is a very exciting project.
07:44This is something that we'll, I mean, the generals have close to 100% protection.
07:49So that's something we need.
07:50I think it's a very, and everything's going to be made in the USA, by the way, very importantly.
07:55So it's something that I've been looking forward to for a long time.
07:59And I just noticed you too, Jim, you're standing there.
08:01And behind you is a very important document, Declaration of Independence.
08:05And that was in the vault for many decades under, right under this area.
08:11They have vaults with pictures on top.
08:13You have Abraham Lincoln.
08:14You see, that was the original Abraham Lincoln, the original Washington.
08:18And does everybody know who the middle was?
08:21General Grant.
08:22And so it's very exciting.
08:24You look over here and above Ronald Reagan, you have Thomas Jefferson.
08:29That's Monroe from the Monroe document.
08:33And you know who that is, right?
08:36Andrew Jackson.
08:37So we have a lot of very exciting pictures.
08:39And on the other side, likewise, just some great, great presidents and great people.
08:45And these, many of these, because people were asking about them, many of them, almost all of them were in the vaults.
08:51Or nearby, but generally in the vaults, downstairs.
08:56Well, we have some great, so it's very exciting.
08:59And the place has become a little different than you first saw Jim, right?
09:02Yes, much better.
09:03It's a little bit different.
09:04It's slightly better.
09:05But to think we had them.
09:06And some were in the vaults for over a hundred years.
09:08So it's pretty cool stuff.
09:11Everybody knows Jim Banks.
09:14He's a great congressman, and now he's a great senator from Indiana.
09:18And you might want to say a few words.
09:20Well, your legacy with Space Force, Mr. President, is already big.
09:24But the Golden Dome is going to be an even bigger legacy for our country.
09:28And Indiana is going to help you make it.
09:30The space satellites that are made at Fort Wayne, Indiana by L3 Harris.
09:34All the work done at Crane Navy Base in southern Indiana is going to be a big part of it.
09:38And Hoosiers are very proud of that.
09:40We're proud of you.
09:41Thank you very much.
09:42You're going to be a big factor.
09:44And good luck.
09:45And congratulations.
09:46You won that race by a lot.
09:47Thanks to you.
09:48That wasn't even a contest, right?
09:50Well, thanks to you and all your support.
09:51Thank you very much.
09:52Thanks.
09:53Please, go ahead.
09:56You missed that.
09:57This is Senator Kramer, and he's one of our best.
10:01Can't get any better.
10:02Go ahead.
10:03Oh, you're very nice, Mr. President.
10:04And thanks for this.
10:06And I remember the day in your first term when you called, and I was a brand-new baby
10:11freshman senator on the Armed Services Committee, and you said, I want to have a Space Force.
10:16Would you lead the effort on the Senate Armed Services Committee?
10:20And I felt so proud thinking that you chose me, and only to find out later no one else
10:24would do it.
10:25But nonetheless, it worked out really, really, really well because North Dakota has some
10:30great space assets that contributed to that, and to Golden Dome.
10:34No surprise that you would be the one, the president that would come along and put the
10:38homeland first.
10:39And this is just one more example of that.
10:42So thanks for this and for allowing me to stop doing it.
10:45By the way, let me just add my strong endorsement of General Goodline's role in leading this.
10:49I don't know anybody better, for sure.
10:51Better equipped to do it than he is.
10:53Everybody said that.
10:54Yeah, that's for sure.
10:55Dan Sullivan, Alaska Senator.
10:57Thank you, Mr. President.
10:59And thank you for your continued leadership on missile defense.
11:02We were talking earlier how, in 2019 at the Pentagon, you laid out a speech about the missile
11:09defense review that had all these principles on missile defense that you articulated then,
11:15during your first term.
11:17And now the Golden Dome is all of that.
11:20So you're continuing to lead.
11:21We really appreciate it.
11:23You know, the Congress is stepping up, as you mentioned right now in the budget reconciliation
11:28bill.
11:29$25 billion for the Golden Dome.
11:31And what Senator Kramer and Senator Banks and I and many others, we're working on our,
11:36and I've briefed you on this before, sir, on our Golden Dome Act, which we think will
11:41have in terms of legislation that can help cement what you're doing right here, getting the
11:47Congress behind it, not just with the funding, but with authorization.
11:50So we're working closely with Secretary Hegseth, General Guttlein, the whole team.
11:55So we're very honored to be here, sir.
11:57And, you know, Alaska is the cornerstone of missile defense right now in terms of ground-based
12:01missile interceptors, in terms of radar systems and tracked incoming missiles.
12:06So my state is honored to continue to play a critical role in all of this and build on it.
12:12And we're really excited to be here.
12:14Thank you very much, Jay.
12:15Great.
12:16Any questions?
12:17Mr. President, you had mentioned at the beginning of your remarks that this was a campaign
12:20promise of yours.
12:21Have military commanders asked for this system specifically?
12:25Because NORAD had said previously that the current system was adequate.
12:28So what does this get the United States?
12:31Somebody said the current system is adequate.
12:33There really is no current system.
12:35There's certain areas of missiles and certain missile defense, but there's no system.
12:40We just have some very capable weapons that hopefully we never have to use, but we have
12:46some very capable weapons.
12:47Now, this is a different league.
12:49There's never been anything like this.
12:50This is something that's going to be very protective.
12:53I think you can rest assured there'll be nothing like this.
12:56Nobody else is capable of building that either.
12:58Yeah, please.
12:59Was it something the military commanders asked you for?
13:01Did they ask you to do this?
13:03Well, let me put it differently.
13:04I suggested it and they all said, we love the idea, sir.
13:08It's the way it's got to be, right?
13:10But they want it and they wanted it badly once it was suggested.
13:13I don't know if they ever thought they would be lucky enough to have it, but we were able
13:18to get it done.
13:19And we have all the funding, so pretty much tucked away.
13:23I think most people feel it's very important to have.
13:25Yeah, please.
13:26Thank you, Mr. President.
13:27When you first announced this idea, critics said it would be prohibitively expensive, potentially
13:32ineffective, and could trigger an arms race in space.
13:35What do you say to those critics about that?
13:37Well, they're wrong.
13:38It's about as close to perfect as you can have in terms of real production.
13:43I told you Canada wants to be a part of it, which would be a fairly small expansion, but
13:49we'll work with them on pricing.
13:51We'll be dealing with them on pricing.
13:53They know about it very much.
13:54They've asked to be a part of it, actually.
13:56They've asked us to be a part of it.
13:59I think it's something that is great.
14:02If you can afford to do it, we can afford to do it.
14:04You know, we took in $5.1 trillion in the last four days in the Middle East.
14:10And when you think about it, this is a tiny fraction of that.
14:14But we make it all here.
14:15We're going to make it all here.
14:17I will tell you, an adversary told me, a very big adversary told me, the most brilliant
14:24people in the world are Silicon Valley.
14:26He said, we cannot duplicate them.
14:27We can't.
14:28This was somebody that I won't tell you who it is, but you'd be amazed.
14:31We have the most brilliant minds in the world doing this kind of thing.
14:35The equipment, the space, the computers, everything.
14:38But he said, we just can't duplicate what you have there in Silicon Valley.
14:43We never have been able to.
14:44And this is a very strong group of people and very strong minds, but they can't.
14:50So we have things that nobody else can have.
14:52And you see what we've done helping Israel with that.
14:56You probably wouldn't have an Israel.
14:57They launched probably 500 missiles altogether, and I think one half of a missile got through.
15:03And that was only falling to the ground as scrap metal.
15:07It's pretty amazing.
15:08And this is, in terms of technology, far advanced from that system.
15:13And just to follow up on the adversaries, have you addressed Russia's ventures in space with a space-based nuclear weapon and told Putin to stop in your conversations with him?
15:24We haven't discussed it, but at the right time we will.
15:27Mr. President, with the goal of keeping Americans safe with this, can you talk about the timeline?
15:34How long will this take to complete it?
15:36We think it's going to be about a little bit less than three years, and we'll have a big phase in very early.
15:42You know, we're starting immediately with $25 billion.
15:45It'll cost about $175 billion completed, but we think in two and a half to three years.
15:51Are you confident that you can get the funding needed from Congress?
15:54Yeah.
15:55It's amazing how easy this one is to fund.
15:58You know, some funding is tough, and some is easy.
16:01When we say we're going to save everyone's lives in a crazy world, it seems to be very easy to get.
16:06Yeah, we've already spoken to everybody we have to speak to.
16:09Everybody's in.
16:10I would say, Dan, everybody's in line here.
16:12Yes, sir.
16:13$25 billion is a down payment in the budget reconciliation bill right now.
16:16Yeah.
16:17So I think people actually love it.
16:20Mr. President, on Russia, are you worried about the reports on,
16:23a military buildup along the borders towards Finland and Norway?
16:28No, I don't worry about that at all.
16:30They're going to be very safe.
16:32Those two countries are going to be very safe.
16:34And the second research, if I may, Volodymyr Zelensky is saying today that he's hoping for you to impose new sanctions on Russia.
16:42Are you considering that?
16:43Well, that's going to be my determination.
16:45That's going to be nobody else's determination.
16:47We'll see how Russia behaves.
16:49We see what's going to happen.
16:51We have a pretty critical time right now.
16:55I had a talk yesterday for two and a half hours with President Putin.
16:58As you know, I also spoke to all of the European or to many of them leaders, but they were representing the whole.
17:05And I think we had very good conversations yesterday.
17:09Please.
17:10Thanks, Mr. President.
17:11What companies have asked to be involved in building this system?
17:14And have you decided on who will be building it?
17:16Yeah, I think I'll let you answer that.
17:18You can mention some of yours from Alaska is involved.
17:22And Alaska is a big part of it because locationally, they're sort of perfect.
17:25I think it's your first line of defense in certain instances.
17:29And Kevin will tell you that his states are involved.
17:33But honestly, Georgia is going to be very big.
17:36Florida is going to be very big.
17:38They're all going to be very big.
17:39Jim, do you want to talk about Indiana?
17:41Yeah.
17:42In Fort Wayne, Indiana, where I live, we make all the space satellites at L3 Harris.
17:46Across the board, we're the top manufacturing state in the country.
17:50By the way, the tariffs have been very good for auto manufacturing in Indiana.
17:53They've been so good.
17:54But this is going to be really good for the defense industry in my state.
17:58There's so much money involved here.
18:01There are going to be a lot of American companies involved in making a golden tone possible.
18:04You might also say you're talking about the tariffs.
18:07Here's some of the biggest auto plants in the world moving into Indiana.
18:11Only for one reason, maybe two reasons, November 5th and the tariffs.
18:15Yes, sir.
18:16But the tariffs have driven tremendous business into this country.
18:20But you have one of the biggest in the world being good.
18:22The Honda Civics.
18:23Right.
18:24The new Honda Civic made in Indiana.
18:25GMs added jobs.
18:27Eli Lilly moving pharmaceutical manufacturing from China to the United States.
18:32$27 billion.
18:33You go on and on with good news in Indiana and across the country because of the tariffs.
18:38Our country was cold as ice a year ago.
18:42And now we have the hottest country in the world.
18:45This is the hottest country in the world.
18:47Nobody even close.
18:48If you look at even this last trip that I made.
18:50The respect that is paid to our country.
18:53We went from being laughed at all over the world.
18:57And now we're the hottest country in the world by far.
19:00Dan, go ahead, please.
19:02Thank you, Mr. President.
19:03I think when you look at the system that you've laid out, it's an idea in your executive order
19:08of a layered defense.
19:10So you have initial ground-based missile interceptors, which are made by some of the big defense companies,
19:16Lockheed, Martin, Raytheon.
19:19The beauty of your vision, Mr. President, is that it's layered, it's open architecture, and it goes up into space.
19:26So this is going to be some of the new defense tech companies that are very interested in it and can bring missile defense
19:33at a cost that I don't think, you said it, Mr. President, is unimaginable in terms of how much lower the cost is.
19:40So it's all across the board in terms of companies, Senator Cramer and I just met with a bunch of them last week,
19:46that are interested in this.
19:48And you said it earlier, Mr. President, our technology sector is head and shoulders above any other place in the world,
19:57and they're going to be a key part of this, and I think that's why it makes it so exciting.
20:01Mr. President, I think one of the things that's, and you alluded to this, the new autonomous space-age defense ecosystem
20:09is more about Silicon Valley than it is about big metal, right?
20:14And so what's exciting about this is it makes it available to everybody to participate, to compete.
20:21Big companies, mid-sized companies, small companies, but General Goodline is the perfect person, again, to sort all that out
20:27because he understands how it has to work together, ultimately.
20:30And Pete, maybe we'll close with you.
20:33We have been discussing this for a long time.
20:35Peter and I used to discuss it when I was going to go on a show that he did very well and did tremendous ratings,
20:42but all he wanted to talk about was the military.
20:44He didn't want to talk about anything else.
20:46We used to talk about this.
20:48How about you closing it out?
20:50Yes, sir.
20:51I mean, like I said, without your vision willing to say and do things when other people wanted to look away
20:56and pretend like the threat didn't exist or be focused on foreign adventurism, some other threat that we've been told is affecting us.
21:03When you looked at the data, sir, from Russia to the Communist Chinese and other and their capabilities,
21:08what they're trying to do to supersede us and threaten us.
21:11How do we find the best innovators, the best military leaders, the best companies, tech companies?
21:17You mentioned open architecture.
21:18That's exactly right.
21:19So multiple companies could pour into this, sir.
21:21It's a layered defense.
21:22So if you miss at one, you catch at the next.
21:25And it integrates existing technologies that can speak to each other.
21:29So it moves quickly while also investing in further ranging space based interceptors.
21:34So our enemies, our adversaries are going to pay a lot of attention to this, just like they have to President Trump from day one.
21:40So you're defending the homeland, defending the American people.
21:44It's going to benefit my kids, grandkids, all of ours in this room.
21:47So thank you for your leadership.
21:49We're going to charge you as fast as we can.
21:50Great job, everybody.
21:52Thank you very much.
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