{"id":840303,"date":"2026-09-08T06:36:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T06:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/840303\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T06:36:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T06:36:18","slug":"space-force-uniform-inspired-by-quasi-satirical-film-starship-troopers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/840303\/","title":{"rendered":"Space Force Uniform Inspired By Quasi-Satirical Film ‘Starship Troopers’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAmong a flurry of posts this weekend, Donald Trump<\/a> revealed the service dress uniform designs for his Space Force<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\n\tWithout additional comment, the president shared photos and an overview of the uniforms on Truth Social, which include in their color palette \u201cspace gray\u201d and \u201cmidnight black\u201d as well as knee high leather boots and snazzy epaulettes. The overview indicated the ensemble was \u201cinspired by the discipline and functionality of the Starship Trooper uniform.\u201d <\/p>\n

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\n\tThe admission is a bit of a shocker, not just because Trump loves winners and the critically-panned 1997 Paul Verhoeven film was a flop, but also because it was a satire of fascism. In his review at the time<\/a>, Roger Ebert noted the picture\u2019s \u201cquasi-fascist militarism,\u201d while admitting that those aspects were leavened a bit by \u201can element of sly satire.\u201d But, for Ebert, that was not enough. \u201cWe smile at the satirical asides, but where\u2019s the warmth of human nature? The spark of genius or rebellion? If Star Wars is humanist, Starship Troopers<\/a> is totalitarian.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAs for the costumes themselves, Ebert was only slightly less critical. He calls them \u201ca cross between Buck Rogers and the Archie comic books.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tTrump has seemingly drawn inspiration from movies and television before for his newest branch of the United States Armed Forces, which he created in 2019. When the president unveiled the logo, science fiction fans almost immediately called out the similarity<\/a> to that worn by Captain Kirk and other Starfleet officers in Gene Roddenberry\u2019s enduring, space faring sci-fi franchise. Star Trek\u00a0legend George Takei even weighed in, telling Trump to give the source material its due.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn 2020, then-Vice President\u00a0Mike Pence<\/a>\u00a0celebrated the one year anniversary of Trump\u2019s new branch by announcing that \u2014 as those serving in the Navy are known as sailors and those in the army are known as soldiers \u2014 \u201chenceforth, the members of the United States Space Force will be known as \u2018guardians.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe announcement drew a quick reaction<\/a> from\u00a0Guardians of the Galaxy<\/a>\u00a0fans, who thought there might be an unacknowledged connection between the film series and the new name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Among a flurry of posts this weekend, Donald Trump revealed the service dress uniform designs for his Space…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":840304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,11716,355775,3479,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-840303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-space-force","tag-starship-troopers","tag-trump","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=840303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/840304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}