Minutes earlier than the moon publish, Trump shared AI-generated pictures of latest black uniforms for the US Area Power. He described the colors as “house gray, midnight black, silver gray, and satin black.” The uniforms had shoulder and collar insignias, sleeve patches and a belt.
Social media customers in contrast the moon declare and the uniforms to the Star Wars Imperial army. One consumer wrote, “Cue the Star Wars ‘Imperial March’.” One other referred to as the uniforms “positively Star Wars Imperial army-coded.”
Donald Trump’s Fact Social publish declaring “The Moon is Ours,” posted on 6 September 2026, alongside his Area Power uniform idea publish.
A 3rd requested, “Why cease at moon? What about Mars? And even higher, he ought to go to the Solar.” A fourth wrote, “Fast! How will we warn the Martians?”
The Outer Area Treaty of 1967 says in any other case. The US and greater than 100 different nations signed it. It states that no nation can declare the moon or different celestial our bodies by means of sovereignty, use or occupation.
Renaming Rampage
In the identical run of posts, Trump additionally claimed the Strait of Hormuz as US territory. Final week, he had advised renaming it “Trump Strait” through the battle with Iran. Hours later, he indicated he was not critical in regards to the concept.
Trump additionally advised renaming the state of New Mexico to “New America.” He posted, “Many individuals advised altering the identify of New Mexico… to NEW AMERICA. A lot extra prestigious and exquisite for the folks of that doubtlessly unimaginable State. Wow, I Love It!!!”
The White Home backed the thought. It reposted a picture exhibiting “Mexico” crossed out and changed with “America.”
New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham responded on Fox Information. She stated the state’s identify “isn’t up for debate — it’s been ours since earlier than america existed.” She stated Trump needed to “distract People” from points comparable to rising gas costs.
The New Mexico suggestion adopted an earlier order. Days earlier than, Trump had signed a doc renaming Lake Ontario as “Lake America” amid a commerce dispute with Canada. He introduced the transfer from the Oval Workplace on 27 August.
Lake Ontario is likely one of the 5 Nice Lakes on the Canada-US border. It shares its identify with the Canadian province of Ontario and with New York State. Toronto sits on its northwestern shore.
The identify comes from the Wendat phrase “Ontari’io,” that means “the lake is gorgeous, nice.” The identify predates the founding of each Canada and the US.
Grand Chief Pierre Picard of the Huron-Wendat First Nation criticised the rename. He wrote, “Outraged, appalled, shocked: there are not any different phrases to explain how I really feel following President Trump’s determination to rename Lake Ontario ‘Lake America’.”
He referred to as the transfer “abhorrent and unspeakable” and accused Trump of attempting to “eradicate our historical past.”
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney additionally objected. On X, he wrote, “The identify Lake Ontario comes from the Wendat phrase Ontari’io, which, appropriately, means ‘the lake is gorgeous, the lake is large.’”
Trump had renamed the Gulf of Mexico because the “Gulf of America” on his first day again within the White Home in 2025. Mexico rejected that transfer. Canada additionally rejected the try and rename Lake Ontario.
The moon and Area Power posts drew concern on-line. One consumer wrote, “Trump is totally dropping it. twenty fifth Modification now!”
One other wrote, “Wow. That is simply excessive psychological sickness, narcissistic collapse and downright looney tunes madness. We can be very fortunate to outlive this felony con artist and lunatic one other 2+ years.”
Superhero Twist
Individually, the White Home posted an AI-generated video of Trump as Inexperienced Lantern, together with two pictures. One picture reveals Trump wanting instantly on the digicam whereas holding up a hand with a glowing inexperienced energy ring.
In brightest day, in blackest evening, no evil shall escape my sight. Let those that worship evil’s may beware my energy… Inexperienced Lantern’s gentle! pic.twitter.com/mXWr0zeyLC
— The White Home (@WhiteHouse) September 7, 2026
The publish included a model of the character’s oath: “In brightest day, in blackest evening, no evil shall escape my sight. Let those that worship evil’s may beware my energy… Inexperienced Lantern’s gentle!”
