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The author, Miles Mathis, writing on August 5, 2025, expresses extreme skepticism and sarcasm regarding Donald Trump’s announcement of a race to build nuclear reactors on the Moon. Mathis likens this to previous taxdollar-spending initiatives like the Golden Dome program and ai data centers, which he believes are designed to enrich the wealthy. He sarcastically suggests building other frivolous facilities on the Moon, such as a Holocaust Memorial, a dinosaur museum, a vaccine lab, a particle accelerator, and a Yeti zoo, and jokes about Lockheed Martin relocating its factories there for less oversight. Mathis points to an article on Zerohedge that also questions the announcement, highlighting its use of an artist’s rendering and humorous subtext, with the unnamed author noting America’s substantial debt and unfunded liabilities and sarcastically suggesting funding a lunar nuclear reactor on credit. The author further references X memes, including one depicting Dr. Evil from Austin Powers commenting on a “nuclear reactor” on the “Moon” and another involving Trump and the Epstein files, implying the Moon nuclear reactor is as imaginary as the files themselves. Mathis concludes that this announcement, like many other government initiatives in the past decade, is being met with significant public skepticism.
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