Star Trek Fans Are Flipping Out Over Donald Trump Announcing Operation Warp Speed
In hopes of crafting a vaccine for the current coronavirus, Donald Trump announced he was moving [...]
Paging Spock
“OPERATION WARP SPEED” Trumps plan for vaccines. I use to think we were on Suvivor. Now all aboard Star Trek Enterprise. Hopefully DR SPOCK will help us #TrumpHasNoPlan pic.twitter.com/khmK2513ai
— marsha stewart (@marshas61269195) May 15, 2020
RIP Roddenberry
Operation: Warp Speed? That belongs to Star Trek! @realDonaldTrump is the personification of everything Star Trek was against. Try to RIP Gene Roddenberry.
— TheSpaceLynx (@space_lynx) May 15, 2020
Getting Stabby
The fact that the Trump administration has co-opted the term “warp speed” as a name for anything connected with it makes the Star Trek fan in me want to stab someone.
— Leslie Burns (@BurnsTheLawyer) May 15, 2020
No Kirk, Bones, or Spock
Trump is appropriating Star Trek going where no one has gone before in vaccine development with “Operation Warp Speed”. Problem is he has neither Capt Kirk’s leadership skills, Dr McCoy’s empathy, nor Spock’s objectivity & knowledge. Most absurd statement: “We have no ego.”
— Poppy Northcutt (@poppy_northcutt) May 15, 2020
Oh Really?
"It's called Operation Warp Speed. That means big, and it means fast."
Every Star Trek fan listening to this: pic.twitter.com/37z4KtCAAk
— Charles Lee (@Goofyfan_Chuck) May 15, 2020
A Few Notes
First, to anyone making Star Wars references with regard to "Operation Warp Speed," you're confusing "Warp Speed" with "Light Speed" / "Hyperspace." 🤓
Second, Trump is anti-science. Why is he naming his propaganda after a Star Trek scientific achievement? 🤔#TrumpHasNoPlan pic.twitter.com/SkrplW4RVg
— Matt (@nosoupforgeorge) May 15, 2020
Just Fiction
As Trump brags about his new "Operation Warp Speed," someone has told him that Star Trek was pure science FICTION?
— Janice Hough (@leftcoastbabe) May 15, 2020
*Sigh*
*Logs onto Twitter , sees trending “super duper missile”, “operation Warp Speed”, and “Space Force”*
*sigh*
😑
— Anthony Dean (@diversetechgeek) May 15, 2020
Beam Me Up, Scotty
First the Star Trek symbol was stolen, then Warp Speed. You know when Trump abruptly left the press conference, he was thinking, “Beam me up, Scotty.” https://t.co/3oOeXTVR6R
— reelclasspresident (@EddieYaroch) May 15, 2020
Magical Thinking
#TrumpHasNoPlan
He still doesn't have one except to win in Nov!Operation Warp Speed is
— 𝐴𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑡 ℳ (@Meg4MJ) May 15, 2020
magical thinking with a Star Trek name that others are happy to get a paycheck for. It. Can't. Happen.