Kathrine Frich
Users joked about the dark aesthetic, with one writing, “Cue the Star Wars ‘Imperial March’.”
Social media feeds often get weird on a quiet weekend.
But when a world leader logs on to share some weekend thoughts, a simple afternoon scroll can quickly turn into a wild lesson in galactic law and geography.
A claim on the cosmos
President Donald Trump spent his Sunday dropping a series of unusual messages on Truth Social. He shared an image of the lunar surface stamped with a massive text overlay that read “The Moon is Ours.”
Just minutes before that post, the president uploaded pictures of what looked like computer-generated military outfits.
The pitch-black Space Force designs featured shoulder pins, sleeve patches, and a sleek belt. Trump described the colors as “space gray, midnight black, silver grey, and satin black,” according to the Irish Star.
People on X immediately noticed a cinematic resemblance. Users joked about the dark aesthetic, with one writing, “Cue the Star Wars ‘Imperial March’.” Another added that the look was “Definitely Star Wars Imperial army-coded.”
Claiming a celestial body actually breaks long-standing international rules. The United States and over a hundred other nations signed the Outer Space Treaty of 1967, which bans any single country from owning the moon.
Redrawing the map
The weekend posting spree did not stop at the edge of the atmosphere. Trump also shared a map of New Mexico where a giant red cross erased the word “Mexico” and replaced it with “America.”
This follows another recent naming controversy during a trade dispute with Canada, as reported by the Mirror US. Late last month, he announced an executive order changing Lake Ontario to “Lake America.”
That decision angered Indigenous leaders. Grand Chief Pierre Picard of the Huron-Wendat First Nation released a fierce statement, accusing the president of trying to erase their history. He said he felt “Outraged, appalled, shocked” by the move, calling it “abhorrent and unspeakable.”
Picard explained that the original name holds immense cultural value. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney agreed. Carney took to X to remind people of the linguistic roots.
“The name Lake Ontario comes from the Wendat word Ontari’io, which, appropriately, means ‘the lake is beautiful, the lake is big,'” Carney wrote.
Sources: The Irish Star, Truth Social, X
