At this stage he stopped having any shock value. It's the race to the bottom as Putin and Xi are prepared for the moment the US collapses.

He's surpassed Idi Amin in his cheap self-aggrandizement.

I'm surprised he hasn't proclaimed himself king of Scotland yet.

Onlookers fear ....

I like that kind of fine British understatement. It is like the BBC diffuses that MS Titanic appears to have had a minor collision with something floating on the surface and there might even exist risk that she cannot reach her destination harbour on time.

Oh come on. Everyone knows that after planting the flag, Neil Armstrong licked the ground and by official playground rules... Mine! Was declared making the moon property of the US 😂

"low iq shit," is a term Republicans like to use. Well this, this claiming the moon shit, it's genuinly, "low iq shit."

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No... No one owns the moon... I think there's treaties.

I wonder what would have happened if this imbecilic self-indulgence had come after China had successfully launched Chang'e 7. And by "wonder" I mean "dread".

Chang'e 7, whose launch has been delayed, is a highly ambitious and comprehensive (uncrewed) lunar mission incorporating four separate vehicles into a single launch and mission: orbiter, fixed lander, rover, and - an innovative "hopper", which has been previously implemented (by Japan) for landing on a small asteroid, but never a world as large as Luna, or as difficult to navigate.

This is definitely one of the most ambitious space probes ever to be assembled. One might even say the most ambitious, when you consider that the landing site is remarkably close to the South Pole - not the easier or safest region to visit, let alone properly explore. If this mission were going beyond Luna, I'd probably rank it in the same league as Viking or Cassini-Huygens - and in fact, depending on its longevity and science return, I ultimately might have to anyway.

Some have gone so far as to say that this mission represents the point where China's spaceflight abilities are challenging, or even exceeding, the USA's. I'll leave that debate to the side here while noting that the science return from Chang'e 7 looks to be phenomenal and possibly groundbreaking, if they can pull this off. This isn't a "flags and footprints" or purely nationalistic mission; China's already done those. From the science standpoint, this looks like the real thing.

Those who consider Lunar science a dead and settled issue have some shocks coming, both geopolitically - because of the potential for exploitation of Lunar resources and development of military applications) - and scientifically. The equatorial and mid-lat regions of Earth's Moon are not well-explored, despite what people think, with information about the origin and evolution of planets in general. And that's before you consider that the Lunar South Pole could be a repository for comet and asteroid debris that is second to none. Explore that properly, return those samples to your labs, and you could be gathering data on the ultimate development of the atmosphere and biology on Earth.

It's not too bad as he isn't saying the moon is a projection or that the earth is flat, like many of his followers. But the fact there is something seriously wrong is what we all know since he first ran for president, or even before that. Nothing has changed ever since. The guy is deranged. He's like Hitler, while missing a few chromosomes.

He'll rename it to Moon of America.

The Orange Pedo thinks that is where little girls live.

main thing wrong with trump is that he still draws breath

Slow day in the news for rawstory.com I guess. Lots of people know there's something wrong with this dude, and have for a while.

Despicable He

I'm not fearing it. I'm hoping. Spiral faster!

Really

Throughout history, no land claim has been valid without pissing on it. No one from America has pissed on the moon, therefore cannot claim ownership of it.

Don't you mean "Orbital America" 😜

Does he have a flag?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTduy7Qkvk8

I thought this was a meme.

Edit: I'm pretty sure this breaks several treaties the US made with other gov

Unfortunately some guy I saw on the local news 20 years ago already claimed it and sold most of it

Will Trump make an executive order claiming that the Moon is America's?

Hard to tell if this is parody or not.

Sea of ~~Tranquility~~Senility

"Fear" If I leave the water on in the bathtub for 4 hours and "fear" the floor in the bathroom is wet, there is a problem in my noggin.