Reporter: When you first announced the idea of "Star Dome", critics said that its cost would be prohibitively high, may have little effect, and could even trigger a space arms race. What would you like to say to those critics?
Trump: Well, they are wrong. In terms of actual results, this is almost perfect. I told you, Canada wants to participate... I think it's a great thing, if you can afford it. We can afford it, you know we got $5.1 trillion in the Middle East in the past four days.
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