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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: Trump Announces $175 billion ‘Golden Dome’ Missile Defense System [Watch (HLS stream): Trump Announces $175 billion ‘Golden Dome’ Missile Defense System](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/sK135DHn.m3u8) (2:52)  _Published 2025-05-21. President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday concepts for a 'Golden Dome' missile defense program that he said would cost $175 billion to complete over the course of three years. The concept is inspired by Israel's Iron Dome._ --- May 21, 2025 4:20 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [U.S. Announces New Patriot Missiles for Ukraine as Part of New $6 Billion Aid Package](/video/4pEy1Qwu/) ### U.S. Announces New Patriot Missiles for Ukraine as Part of New $6 Billion Aid Package [President Trump Wants an Extra $4 Billion for North Korea Missile Defense](/video/nl9xmDyG/) ### President Trump Wants an Extra $4 Billion for North Korea Missile Defense [Iran Displays New Russian Missile Defense System ](/video/1QYjtjXA/) ### Iran Displays New Russian Missile Defense System --- ## Transcript In 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. 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. 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. 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. And we will have the best system ever built. As you know, we helped Israel with theirs and it was very successful. And now we have technology that's even far advanced from that, but including hypersonic missiles, ballistic missiles and advanced cruise missiles, all of them will be knocked out of the air. We will truly be completing the job that President Reagan started 40 years ago, forever ending the missile threat to the American homeland. And the success rate is very close to 100%, which is incredible when you think of it, you're shooting bullets out of the air. Ultimately, this right here, the Golden Dome for America, is game changer. It's a generational investment in the security of America and Americans. Mr. president, you said we're going to secure our southern border and get 100% operational control after the previous administration allowed an invasion of people into our country. Uh, President Reagan 40 years ago, cast the vision for it. The technology wasn't there. Now 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. What does this get the United States? Somebody said it already is before. There really is no current system. We have certain areas of missiles and certain missile defense, but there's no system. Uh, we just have some very capable weapons that hopefully we never have to use. But we have some very capable weapons. Now, this is a different league. There's never been anything like this. This is something that's going to be, uh, very protective. I think you can rest assured there'll be nothing like this. Nobody else is capable of building it either. Something that military commanders asked you for. Did did they ask you to do this? Uh, well, let. Me put it differently. 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