Twitter users made 'Top Gun 3' trend with a barrage of jokes and memes surrounding the missile takedown of the suspected Chinese spy balloon Saturday.
Rep. Mike Waltz, R-Fla., says Congressional Oversight has a lot of questions surrounding the U.S. response to the Chinese spy balloon on 'Fox News Live.'
"Top Gun 3" is making all the buzz on Twitter after the Pentagon authorized a U.S. fighter jet to take down theWith GIFs from"Top Gun" and"Top Gun: Maverick" swirling around on the platform in addition to cheeky hypothetical headlines and humorous calls to plot the third"Top Gun" installment around a similar balloon takedown, social media gave the moment its share of attention.
Jennifer Connelly starred alongside Tom Cruise in the highly successful film "Top Gun: Maverick" as Penny Benjamin.Others teased that footage of the balloon's takedown was taken from filming of"Top Gun 3" or was instead a trailer or a promo. Others jokingly wrote that, since the Chinese balloon fiasco set the stage for"Top Gun 3," everyone who hasn't seen the wildly popular 2022 blockbuster"Top Gun: Maverick" should be sure to watch it.Despite calls to take down the suspected spy balloon earlier last week, top U.S. officials waited until it reached the Atlantic coast Saturday before sending an F-22 fighter from Virginia's Langley Air Force Base to shoot it down.
President Biden, despite being admonished by some who say the balloon should have been taken out as soon as it breached U.S. airspace, told reporters on Saturday that he"I told them to shoot it down on Wednesday," he said."They said to me let's wait for the safest place to do it."
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