December 02, 2025 11:32 AM UTC

This Is What Servility Looks Like, Colorado Springs City Council Edition

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• by: Colorado Pols

As readers know, the political football over the permanent home of the U.S. Space Command with its attendant thousands of jobs and millions of dollars in public investment has been one of the more brazen examples of Donald Trump’s transactional style of leadership, at length rewarding the loyal Republican state of Alabama with the prize after the Biden administration had made the decision to permanently locate Space Command in the logical heart of America’s aerospace defense complex, the city of Colorado Springs–undoing an announcement otherwise by Trump on his way out the door in January of 2021. Trump’s reversal of the Space Command basing decision after retaking office in January was subject to the same bipartisan opposition that had prevailed for years among the state’s congressional delegation…until Colorado Republicans realizing the risk and futility of opposing the Dear Leader petered out.

Meanwhile, Attorney General Phil Weiser is pressing ahead with a lawsuit on behalf of Colorado’s best interests on the matter, one of dozens filed against the Trump administration since January. But as the Colorado Springs Gazette’s Brennen Kauffman reports, the city that stands to benefit most from a successful lawsuit to stop the uprooting of Space Command doesn’t support the effort:

Colorado Springs City Council voted Tuesday to ask state Attorney General Phil Weiser to drop his lawsuit against President Donald Trump and the Department of Defense for trying to move Space Command headquarters out of the city…

The resolution stated that councilmembers wanted to keep fighting and lobbying the Trump administration to change its mind about moving the command headquarters to Huntsville, Ala.

However, the resolution stated that a lawsuit “could risk damaging Colorado Springs trusted relationship with the Department of War, U.S. Space Command, and other defense departments.”

KRCC’s Briana Heaney:

[Councilman Roland] Rainey said U.S. Congressional leaders told him they are working with the Trump administration to bring new military ventures to the city.

“We would definitely hate that any type of litigation would hinder that process from coming to our great city,” Rainey said.

Of course, the way that the state’s lawsuit to keep Space Command in Colorado would “hinder” other military investments in the Colorado Springs area would be the same way the decision was made to move Space Command to Alabama to begin with: political retaliation. Trump said during his announcement in September that Colorado’s mail ballot elections factored into his latest decision, much like during his first term when Space Command was shamelessly held out to voters as a reason to vote for Trump’s loyal local toady Sen. Cory Gardner.

So far, AG Weiser’s lawsuits against the Trump administration have been mostly successful. Once we’ve established Trump’s motives, the question becomes whether to submit to and appease this inherently corrupt scheming, or to fight back.

Let it be known that the nominally “nonpartisan” Colorado Springs City Council, faced with the choice of standing up for their city or knuckling under to Donald Trump, chose the latter.