Trump Says He Doesn’t Know Who Ordered ‘Starshield’

The value here is less in the denial than in the ambiguity it leaves standing. A presidential statement that an order did not originate with his administration, without identifying who did issue it, keeps the directive's provenance and scope unresolved — a gap that matters for anyone tracking how space-linked capabilities are being tasked. Whether the origin is clarified, or the order is attributed elsewhere, is the open question.