This Is The Space Policy You Asked For America
Donald Trump tells 10-year-old that ‘space is terrific’ but potholes are more important, Washington Post
“The local boy laughed, told the presidential candidate “yeah,” and said: “I want to know your opinions on NASA.” Trump wanted to make sure he correctly heard the question, turning to those around him to clarify if the boy was asking about the national space program or the North American Free Trade Agreement. A woman near the boy shouted: “Space!” “You know, in the old days, it was great,” Trump told the boy, along with an audience of more than 600. “Right now, we have bigger problems – you understand that? We’ve got to fix our potholes. You know, we don’t exactly have a lot of money.”
Earlier election 2016 posts
The new @NASA #JourneyToPotholes pic.twitter.com/Obkiwjwj7a
— NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) November 9, 2016
I’m not a huge Trump supporter but at least he gave a straight answer, something previous regimes never did. If he cancels SLS his status further rises.
TMK the only NASA activity that Trump has pledged to terminate is climate research.
Multiple, different, contradictory straight answers, while denying that he’d ever said anything different than the current answer, even in the face of video of his previous answers.
The only thing he got right was that we have bigger problems. However, he wouldn’t know a straight answer if it gave him a lap dance.
Someone on Trump’s team will eventually explain to him how little money NASA actually gets in the context of the Federal budget, at which point he’ll just ignore NASA like every other president since the 60’s.
“You know, we don’t exactly have a lot of money.”
What a stunning statement.