![]() ![]() It didn’t help Space Force’s branding that Trump bragged about it as if it were the equivalent of a space-based Ivanka, talked it up in his fund-raising letters, and sold unofficial Space Force merch to his supporters in the 2020 campaign.īut not everything can be blamed on our beleaguered ex-president. Soon, he decided the force should be for real, but it was met with titters from almost everybody because of its Trump associations. Trump concedes that the first time he proposed the Space Force to his White House staff, he was joking. Some of the onus can be laid on Trump, who tainted the brand with his soiled image when his announcement midwifed into existence a military organization whose founding had been in the works for some time. The name could have been even worse, as POLITICO’s report on the rejected ones proves. “Pence might as well have just gone ahead and made the Space Force motto “I Am Groot,” wrote The Wrap’s Andrea Towers. The name applied to Space Force members, “Guardians,” was mocked from all corners when then-Vice President Mike Pence announced it, especially from Guardians of the Galaxy fans. The branch’s “delta” emblem and flag were (unfairly) denounced as Star Trek rip-offs (turns out the Starfleet Command’s insignia was inspired by historic military marks, not the other way around). ![]() Earlier, the force’s overdone uniforms were compared to something out of the Battlestar Galactica wardrobe. served the definitive verdict on the anthem: “It’s not a banger.” But the anthem isn’t the most risible Space Force miscue. “Semper Supra” reads like a list of mottos, as POLITICO’s Steve Heuser tweeted. The anthem, “ Semper Supra,” (that’s “Always Above” if you never took Latin, and also the branch’s motto) grates like a rejected song from The Music Man. The latest wasted opportunity came Tuesday when the Space Force debuted its anthem at a conference in suburban Washington. ![]() Space Force, established by former President Donald Trump in 2018, that it has blown every one of its many efforts to introduce itself to the American public. You often get several, and it is to the shame of the U.S. It’s not true that you have only one chance to make a first impression. ![]()
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