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(FOX NEWS) â President Trump vowed on Monday to make space great again.
Speaking at a meeting of the National Space Council, Trump ordered the Pentagon to immediately establish a national âspace forceâ that would become the sixth branch of the armed forces.
âWe are going to have a space force,â Trump said in Washington D.C. âAn Air Force and a Space Force. Separate, but equal.â
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This is not the first time that Trump has floated the idea of establishing a âspace force.â The president mentioned the idea in May during a ceremony at the White House honoring the Army Black Knights college football team.
Trump did not go into details about what military role the so-called âspace forceâ would carry out or who would command it, but he framed space as a national security issue, saying he does not want âChina and Russia and other countries leading us.â
The president said the United States will âbe the leader by farâ in space and is looking to revive the nationâs flagging space program by returning the United States to the moon and soon reaching Mars.
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Trump's MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! sign used during his 2016 presidential campaign
A button from Reagan's 1980 presidential campaign
'Make America Great Again' (often abbreviated as MAGA/Ëmæ.É¡É/) is a campaign slogan used in American politics that was popularized by Donald Trump in his 2016 presidential campaign. Ronald Reagan used the similar slogan 'Let's make America great again' in his successful 1980 presidential campaign. Bill Clinton also used the phrase in speeches during his successful 1992 presidential campaign and again in a radio commercial aired for his wife Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential primary campaign. Democratic pollster Douglas Schoen has called Trump's use of the phrase as 'probably the most resonant campaign slogan in recent history,' citing large majorities of Americans who believed the country was in decline.[1][2] The slogan has become a pop culture phenomenon, seeing widespread use and spawning numerous variants in the arts, entertainment, and politics, and used both by those who support and oppose the presidency of Donald Trump. In the Trump era, Voice of America has called the slogan a loaded phrase because it 'doesn't just appeal to people who hear it as racist coded language, but also those who have felt a loss of status as other groups have become more empowered.'[3]
Use by Ronald Reagan[edit]
'Let's make America great again' was first used in Ronald Reagan's 1980 presidential campaign, when the United States was suffering from a worsening economy at home marked by stagflation.[4][5][6][7] Using the country's economic distress as a springboard for his campaign, Reagan used the slogan to stir a sense of patriotism among the electorate.[8]
Use by Bill Clinton[edit]
The phrase was also used in speeches[9] by Bill Clinton during his 1992 presidential campaign; however, it was not a slogan of the campaign.[10] Clinton also used the phrase in a radio commercial aired for Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential primary campaign.[11]
During the 2016 electoral campaign, Clinton suggested that Trump's version, used as a campaign rallying cry, was a message to white Southerners that Trump was promising to 'give you an economy you had 50 years ago, and.. move you back up on the social totem pole and other people down.'[12]
Use by Donald Trump[edit]
Donald Trump wearing a MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN cap during his 2016 campaign
On September 16, 2011, Roger Stone, Trump's longtime political advisor and a veteran of Reagan's 1980 campaign, tweeted the slogan: 'Make America Great Again --TRUMP HUCKABEE 2012 #nomormons'.[13] Two months later, in December 2011, Trump made a statement in which he said he was unwilling to rule out running as a presidential candidate in the future, explaining 'I must leave all of my options open because, above all else, we must make America great again'.[14] Also in December 2011, he published a book using as a subtitle the similar phrase 'Making America #1 Again' â which in a 2015 reissue would be changed to 'Make America Great Again!'[15]
Candidate Trump popularized the slogan 'Make America Great Again' by stitching it on to a widely distributed cap.
Trump himself began using the slogan formally on November 7, 2012, the day after Barack Obama won his reelection against Mitt Romney. By his own account, Trump first considered 'We Will Make America Great', but did not feel like it had the right 'ring' to it.[16] 'Make America Great' was his next slogan idea, but upon further reflection, he felt that it was a slight to America because it implied that America was never great. After selecting 'Make America Great Again', Trump immediately had an attorney register it. (Trump later said that he was unaware of Reagan's use in 1980 until 2015, but noted that 'he didn't trademark it'.)[16] On November 12 he signed an application with the United States Patent and Trademark Office requesting exclusive rights to use the slogan for political purposes. It was registered as a service mark on July 14, 2015, after Trump formally began his 2016 presidential campaign and demonstrated that he was using the slogan for the purpose stated on the application.[17][16][18]
Banner displaying 'Vote To Make America Great Again' on a roadside in California shortly after the November 2016 election
During the campaign, Trump often used the slogan, especially by wearing hats emblazoned with the phrase in white letters, which soon became popular among his supporters.[19] The slogan was so important to the campaign that at one point it spent more on making the hats â sold for $25 each on its website â than on polling, consultants, or television commercials. The candidate claimed that 'millions' were sold.[16] Following Trump's election, the website of his presidential transition was established at greatagain.gov.[20] President Trump stated in January 2017 that the slogan of his 2020 reelection campaign would be 'Keep America Great' and immediately ordered a lawyer to trademark it.[16] Trump tweeted âMAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!â on September 1, 2018,[21] apparently in response to Meghan McCain telling approximately 3,000 mourners at John McCainâs memorial service, âThe America of John McCain has no need to be made great again because America was always great.â[22]
Social media usage[edit]
Donald Trump took the campaign slogan to social media (primarily Twitter), using the hashtags #makeamericagreatagain and its abbreviation #maga. In response to criticism regarding his frequent and untraditional usage of social media, Trump defended himself by tweeting 'My use of social media is not Presidential - it's MODERN DAY PRESIDENTIAL. Make America Great Again!' on July 1, 2017.[23] This comment justified his usage of social media as his main preferred method of communicating to his supporter base.
In the first half of 2017 alone, Trump repeated his slogan on Twitter 33 times.[24] In an article for Bloomberg, Mark Whitehouse noted 'A regression analysis suggests the phrase adds (very roughly) 51,000 to a post's retweet-and-favorite count, which is important given that the average Trump tweet attracts a total of 107,000.'[24]
My screen scrolls by itself. Trump attributed his victory to social media when he said 'I won the 2016 election with interviews, speeches, and social media.'[25] According to RiteTag,[26] the estimated hourly statistics for #maga on Twitter alone include: 1,304 unique tweets, 5,820,000 hashtag exposure, and 3,424 retweets with 14% of #maga tweets including images, 55% including links, and 51% including mentions.[27]
Donald Trump created his Twitter account in March 2009. His follower count increased significantly following his announcement to run for president in the 2016 presidential election, with particularly notable spikes occurring after both securing the Republican party nomination and winning the presidency.[28]
Use by others[edit]In politics[edit]
Political commentator and author Peter Beinart published a 2006 book titled The Good Fight: Why Liberalsâand Only LiberalsâCan Win the War on Terror and Make America Great Again[29] drawing on the philosophy of theologian Reinhold Niebuhr after the Invasion of Iraq and early years of the War on Terror.
In 2011, Christine O'Donnell published a book about her Senate campaign in the 2010 Delaware special election titled Troublemaker: Let's Do What It Takes To Make America Great Again.[30]
Make Something Great Again
After Donald Trump popularized the use of the phrase, the phrase and modifications of it became widely used to refer to his election campaign and his politics. Trump's primary opponents, Ted Cruz and Scott Walker, began using 'Make America Great Again' in speeches, inciting Trump to send cease-and-desist letters to them. Trump claimed after the election that the hats 'were copied, unfortunately. It was knocked off by 10 to one [..] but it was a slogan, and every time somebody buys one, that's an advertisement'.[16] Cruz later sold hats featuring, 'Make Trump Debate Again', in response to Trump's boycotting the Iowa January 28, 2016, debate.[31]
Disagreement[edit]
Some have argued that America was never particularly 'great',[32][33] or have questioned when exactly it was considered to be more 'great' than it is.[34][35]
Other countries[edit]
In June 2017, Emmanuel Macron, President of France, rebuked Trump over withdrawing from the Paris Climate Agreement. The last sentence of the speech delivered by him was 'make our planet great again'.[36]
In October 2018, during his campaign for the 2019 Indonesian presidential election, opposition leader Prabowo Subianto used the phrase 'make Indonesia great again', though he denied having copied Trump.[37]
During the Swedish European Parliament election in May 2019, the Swedish Christian Democratic Party used the slogan 'Make EU Lagom Again'.[38][39]
February 2019 Fridays for Future protest in Berlin with the line Make Earth Greta Again.
Members of the Fridays for Future Movement have often used slogans like 'Make Earth Greta Again', referring to Greta Thunberg.[40] In 2019, Grant Armour and Milene Larsson co-directed a documentary film named Make the World Greta Again.[41]
In art, entertainment, and media[edit]
Rap-rock supergroupProphets of Rage displaying a 'Make America Rage Again' stage backdrop reminiscent of the 'Make America Great Again' catchphrase as it appears on a MAGA hat.
The most widespread uses of the phrase and its variants were in media, especially television comedies. For example:
References[edit]
External links[edit]
Retrieved from 'https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Make_America_Great_Again&oldid=903688445'
It was a long road back to space.
On July 20, 1969, an audience of 500 million people watched a man set foot on the surface of the moon and plant an American flag in the gray powder of the Sea of Tranquility.
In July 2010, NASA chief Charles Bolden, an Obama appointee, told Al Jazeera that his boss had given him three priorities⦠none of them involving space exploration. The foremost priority for the agency once tasked with sending a man to the moon was âto reach out to the Muslim world⦠to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science, math, and engineering.â
As far back as 2007, Obama had called for delaying the Constellation program, which would have replaced the space shuttles, for five years in order to pay for his education program. He was the only major candidate to do so.
Once he got into office, the delay became a full-fledged cancellation.
In 2008, Obama hypocritically blasted the Bush Administration for allowing âa five-year gap after the retirement of the Space Shuttleâ during which time âthe United States will have to depend on foreign rockets and spacecraft to send Americans to orbitâ.
Obama claimed that he wanted to retain a working space shuttle. In office however he scrapped the shuttles leaving the United States wholly dependent on Russian Soyuz rockets. Around the time that Bolden was telling America that we would not go to the moon, his skeleton of a space agency, now concerned with Muslim outreach and Global Warming, was paying the Russian space agency $424 million for six Soyuz seats.
During Obamaâs first year in office, economic aid to Pakistan nearly tripled to $1.3 billion. While Obama could find no room in his budget request for the Constellation space program, a year after the Bin Laden raid, which caught Pakistan harboring Americaâs greatest enemy, the 2012 budget requested $3 billion in aid for Pakistan.
Bush cut economic aid to Egypt. Obama increased it. Foreign aid to the Palestinian Authority shot up from $414 million to $980 million in 2009. Due to the various funding mechanisms, including through a dedicated UN agency, that amount is not even close to the full sum.
The US stake in the IMF tripled to $165 billion. US contributions to the UN passed $6 billion; a 50 percent increase.
By 2011, total foreign aid spending had increased by 80% from $11.4 billion to $20 billion. In 2010, Neil Armstrong had sent in written testimony to a Congressional hearing stating that budget reductions for the Constellation program totaled $20 billion.
But weâre back on the road now.
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