Trump announces Space Command HQ will switch to Alabama from Colorado | Donald Trump

Donald Trump made its first public appearance in a week on Tuesday to announce that the headquarters of the US Space Command (Spacecom), in charge of the main national security operations in space, is said to be in the republican bastion of Alabama.

Flanked by republican senators and members of the congress at a press conference at the White House, Trump said that Huntsville, in Alabama, would be the new location of the space command. This decision reverses a decision of administration of Biden to place the installation at its current temporary headquarters in Colorado, originally democratic.

“The registered office of the United States Space Command will move to the magnificent place of a place called Huntsville, in Alabama, to always be known from this point under the name of Rocket City,” said Trump. “We had a lot of competition but Alabama gets it.”

This decision would result in more than 30,000 new jobs and would bring hundreds of billions of dollars in Alabama, a state that voted for Trump, “about 47 points,” said the president.

“They fought stronger for that than anyone,” said Trump, before adding that Colorado’s decision to authorize the vote by mail was “corrupt”.

“The problem I have with Colorado, one of the big problems, [is that] They have a vote by mail, “he said.” So they automatically twisted the elections and we cannot have it. When a state is for the vote sent by post, it means it wants dishonest elections. So it played a big factor.

Huntsville already houses the Space of the American army and the command of the anti -missile defense, the Marshall Space Flight Center of NASA and the Redstone Arsenal of 38,000 acres. The city was identified by the US Air Force as its favorite site for the command of space in 2021, because it would be a profitable option. A report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) later revealed that the Air Force decision -making process had “important deficits in its transparency and credibility”.

Two years later, in 2023, Biden canceled these plans to move to Alabama. Instead, Biden has chosen to make the temporary location of Colorado Springs permanent, taking a recommendation from General James Dickinson, the former chief of space. Dickinson would have said that moving to Alabama could compromise military preparation because making the registered office fully operational would take time.

“For four years, I fought so that the command of the American space moved to his house selected in Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, in Alabama,,” wrote Senator Tommy Tuberville alongside a video statement after Trump’s announcement. “Thank you, President Trump and secretary [Pete] Hegseth, for reversing Joe Biden’s political cronyism and restoring the merit and integrity of this process. »»

Tuberville castigated Biden’s decision in 2023 to keep Spacecom in Colorado Springs in his video and said that the former president had left the “security of the nation [take] A rear seat in politics “and” sold “to” woken up politics “at the time. He then thanked Trump for having “restored merit and integrity” to space exploration and alleged that the decision would allow taxpayers to save $ 480 million from taxpayers.

Trump’s announcement of a change of course has followed days of feverish online speculation on his health, fueled by his absence of public eyes since last week.

When he was asked if he was aware that there had been commitments of 1.3 million social media to this Saturday morning by speculating on his possible “disappearance”, Trump he counted that he had held several press conferences during last week and underlined “fairly poignant” messages which he had published on his social platform Truth.

“I have done many press conferences, all successful. They went very well, as it goes very well. And then I did not do it for two days, and they said:” There must be something wrong with him “,” he said.

“Biden would not do them for months, you would not see it, and no one has ever said that there was never nothing wrong with him – and we know that he was not in the biggest form. These are all the false news.”

Trump’s health speculation recently intensified. Part of the fervor was stimulated by disclosure of the White House that it was diagnosed with chronic venous insufficiency, a condition involving damage to the veins of the arms and legs. There have also been viral images showing Trump with swollen ankles and bruises on his hands.

Elsewhere in his announcement, Trump said he had decided to send armed troops to Chicago, allegedly to fight crime. Such a decision is contrary to the will of JB Pritzker, the Governor of Illinois, and follows the controversial recent deployment of the National Guard for Washington on the same basis.

“We are entering,” he said, calling Chicago and Baltimore – another city led by Democrats – “Hellholes”.

He said that the deployment of national guard troops in Washington DC had “served as a model”, adding: “I am very proud of Washington. [It’s] a safe area.