OMG, iz fulla starz

Looks like somebody won the coveted month of parking in Roger Ailes' old space. Behold, the Fair 'n' Balanced Network's Monday afternoon lead story:

President Trump vowed on Monday to make space great again.

Speaking at a meeting of the National Space Council, Trump ordered the Pentagon to immediately establish a national “space force” that would become the sixth branch of the armed forces.

“We are going to have a space force,” Trump said in Washington D.C. “An Air Force and a Space Force. Separate, but equal.”

The prose, alas, is pretty pedestrian -- certainly compared with the Photoshop job. But together, don't they remind you of the good old days, when the party press knew how to treat a proclamation from the Dear Leader? 

A couple of things came to mind. First, the idea of leader as visionary: Lenin striding purposefully into the future (at left is the old boy in Dresden*). Second ... did y'all really want the Dear Leader to look like a LOLcat?

... Trump did not go into details about what military role the so-called “space force” would carry out or who would command it, but he framed space as a national security issue, saying he does not want "China and Russia and other countries leading us."

The president said the United States will "be the leader by far" in space and is looking to revive the nation's flagging space program by returning the United States to the moon and soon reaching Mars.

Images are vital to framing, but they aren't all of it. As Entman put it, framing is about selection and salience, so it's also important to know that Fox found the right stuff to highlight. Not, obviously, the messy and unexciting stuff that the Swamp Media led with:

Before making his remarks on the space program, President Trump also weighed in on the ongoing immigration crisis – blasting the U.S.’ current immigration laws and saying the crisis is “the Democrats’ fault.”

“The United States will not be a migrant holding facility,” Trump said. “We can't allow that to happen in the U.S. Not on my watch. We want safety and we want security.

Trump added: “If the Democrats would sit down and stop obstructing, we could have something quickly."

Almost all of which is true -- at least, it's true that he said and added the things he is reported to have said and added. And it's still all about the security! That, kids, is how you get the covered parking space.

*  From a 1990 trip (ours, not his).