{"id":592297,"date":"2026-09-06T21:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T21:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/592297\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T21:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T21:24:10","slug":"i-dont-think-trump-knows-who-the-good-guys-are-in-star-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/592297\/","title":{"rendered":"I don\u2019t think Trump knows who the good guys are in Star Wars."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Posted Sep 6, 2026 at 7:23 PM UTC<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t think Trump knows who the good guys are in Star Wars.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">The president posted an image that purports to show the next generation of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2020\/12\/18\/22189637\/space-force-military-branch-official-name-guardians\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">United States Space Force<\/a> dress uniforms and, well\u2026 they sure look a lot like Imperial officer garb. (Which itself is inspired in part by German SS uniforms.)<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"_1pegheu1\" href=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/09\/2b6d54789d69a3b9.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" data-pswp-height=\"1135\" data-pswp-width=\"904\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"fill\" class=\"i7ks070\" style=\"position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;color:transparent;background-size:cover;background-position:50% 50%;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-image:url(&quot;data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg' %3E%3Cfilter id='b' color-interpolation-filters='sRGB'%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'\/%3E%3CfeColorMatrix values='1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 100 -1' result='s'\/%3E%3CfeFlood x='0' y='0' width='100%25' height='100%25'\/%3E%3CfeComposite 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