Trump taps Sean Duffy as interim NASA administrator

[highplainsdem]

Source: The Hill

President Trump said late Wednesday that he was tapping Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy to lead NASA on an interim basis after Trump yanked his original nominee for the post.

“Sean is doing a TREMENDOUS job in handling our Country’s Transportation Affairs, including creating a state-of-the-art Air Traffic Control systems, while at the same time rebuilding our roads and bridges, making them efficient, and beautiful, again,” Trump posted on Truth Social. “He will be a fantastic leader of the ever more important Space Agency, even if only for a short period of time.”

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Duffy becomes the latest Cabinet official to be given multiple job titles. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is also serving as interim national security adviser.

Duffy responded to the president’s post on X, writing, “Honored to accept this mission. Time to take over space. Let’s launch.”


Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5393470-trump-taps-sean-duffy-as-interim-nasa-administrator/

[Lovie777]

1. Isn't he firing over 2,000 Qualified Nasa employees to replace them with..............

Russia, China, North Korea, etc.?

[BOSSHOG]

2. Let's all say a Prayer

For the wonderful career rocket scientists and support staff of NASA.

State of the Art Air Traffic Control System? Rebuilding our roads and bridges? Fantastic Leader? We are being led by Question Mark and the Republicans.

[llmart]

5. My son is a NASA engineer.

He's already been contacted by search firms. He's brushing up his resume also. He loves his job but doesn't trust Trump and anyone appointed by him. They've all received a few emails from the higher ups "not to panic". Yeah, right.

[BOSSHOG]

6. My Wife

Worked for Stennis in Mississippi many years ago. She couldn’t have been happier. Yeah, the liars said, don’t panic. You know what your doing why would we fire you, wink, wink.

[3catwoman3]

7. Best wishes to your son. Sounds like he has reason to believe...

...he will land on his feet. Do let us know.

[llmart]

16. That was very kind of you.

He always lands on his feet. He's an amazing man and staunch Democrat. He has an incredible work ethic along with the high IQ. He's on the Artemis program which he hopes he can see through to the launch. I'm just surprised that the doofus in chief hasn't renamed Kennedy Space Center.

[3catwoman3]

18. I'm old enough to still think of it as Cape Canaveral...

...sometimes.

[llmart]

19. Yes, I remember it too.

If you're ever interested, look up how many name changes this went through over the years. It almost seems like it was a typical Florida political thing. They didn't like that President Johnson renamed Cape Canaveral to Cape Kennedy. I think it became quite a battle. Eventually, Florida won out and the town is Cape Canaveral but where the space center is located was changed to Kennedy Space Center, or KSC.

I still don't trust that doofus won't rename it Musk Space Center if they ever "mend their relationship". (I think their feud is political theater myself.)

[Polybius]

12. If it came down to it and he was let go, would he work for SpaceX?

I'm sure they would love to have his talent.

[llmart]

17. That's a hard NO!

He used to admire Musk years ago, but now not at all. In fact, he bought one of the first Tesla Model S cars but recently sold it. He won't have another Tesla even though he liked the car.

[John1956PA]

3. Okay. He knows how to shimmy up hundred-foot-high poles.

What does he know about orbiters fifty miles above earth?

[SheltieLover]

4. What's his expertise besides ass kissing? Model airplanes?

[Prairie Gates]

8. Any journalist who quotes Trump's Truth Social nonsense directly is a hack

Bottom line.

Here's how you do it:

Trump announced the appointment on his private social media app.

Here's how you DO NOT do it if you have a shred of integrity or basic competence:

“Sean is doing a TREMENDOUS job in handling our Country’s Transportation Affairs, including creating a state-of-the-art Air Traffic Control systems, while at the same time rebuilding our roads and bridges, making them efficient, and beautiful, again,” Trump posted on Truth Social. “He will be a fantastic leader of the ever more important Space Agency, even if only for a short period of time.”

[BaronChocula]

9. Well this should go well

as well as anything goes in this morostocracy.

[Karasu]

10. Again with giving his idiot toadies multiple fucking jobs they can't juggle. Some of them have three or four at this

point.

[Polybius]

11. I misread this as Sean "Puffy" Combs

As in Diddy.

[Mawspam2]

13. That actually seems right.

[lamp_shade]

14. In other words, he couldn't find anyone who wants the job.

[Fla Dem]

15. "rebuilding our roads and bridges, making them efficient, and beautiful, again"

Thank you Joe Biden.

The "Bipartisan Infrastructure Law," officially the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), is a United States federal statute signed into law by President Joe Biden on November 15, 2021. It's a significant piece of legislation that allocates approximately $1.2 trillion for investments in infrastructure projects.

A number of red states did not invest their allocated share of the Infrastructure Law while Biden was in office so he would not get credit.