"Despite the excitement of the weekend, Trump is very much alive, which we know because he gave an hour-long press conference on Tuesday afternoon, which began with his announcement that he's moving Space Command from Colorado to Huntsville, Alabama and ended with him rambling about how the U.S. is the hottest and the best and that we'd be a third world country right now if it weren't for tariffs."
"Trump wasn't seen in public between Tuesday and Saturday, leading the internet to speculate that maybe *it* had finally happened. He was photographed going golfing on Saturday afternoon, but speculation rose again when the White House announced Trump would give an address from the Oval Office at 2 p.m. on Tuesday. Spoiler! It could have all been a Truth Social post."
"In 2018, during his first term, Trump reinstated Space Command and said he'd bring it to Alabama. But when Biden took office, he chose to keep the headquarters in Colorado, on advice from the head of Space Command at the time, Army Gen. James Dickinson, who said the timeline for construction in Alabama could impact military readiness-even though the Air Force said they preferred the headquarters be in Alabama."
Trump held an hour-long, delayed press conference to announce moving Space Command headquarters from Colorado to Huntsville, Alabama. He praised the U.S. and credited tariffs for preventing a third-world outcome. He was not publicly seen for several days, was photographed golfing, and prompted renewed attention when the White House scheduled an Oval Office address that became a press conference with Alabama Republican lawmakers present. Space Command was reinstated in 2018 with a pledge to relocate to Alabama; the Biden administration kept the headquarters in Colorado citing construction timelines and potential impacts on military readiness despite Air Force preference for Alabama. Trump justified the relocation in part by attacking Colorado's mail-in voting as producing dishonest elections.
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