> "Hypersonic weapons move faster than anything currently being used, giving adversaries far less time to react, and they provide a much harder target to counteract with interceptors"

This is true if you understand the context. Ballistic missiles are for nuclear strikes. Whoever is saying "anything currently being used" means conventional. These hypersonic weapons are conventional, i.e., non-nuclear.

> US Commander in Chief, West Point graduation speech.

That's not at all germane. No one in the DoD or in Congress is working on or funding these systems because Donald Trump thought they were the fastest possible weapons system. Heavy U.S. spending in hypersonics preceded Trump. You'll also note for example, Trump sticking his technically illiterate self into debates about the catapults used in the new generation of aircraft carriers. It changed nothing in terms of what DoD or Congress did with that program.