Trump Ridiculed for Claiming He Rescued the Stranded Astronauts

Donald Trump insists, incorrectly, that he was the one to rescue those stranded astronauts — and he's getting roundly called out for trying to take credit for something he had almost nothing to do with. As the Washington Post reports, the plans for the safe return of Barry "Butch" Wilmore and Sunita Williams, the astronaut pair who flew up on Boeing's leaky Starliner craft last June only to be stuck there for nearly nine months longer than expected, were in the works long before Trump even won his second presidential match-up against Joe Biden. Despite the president's claims on his dying Twitter clone that he "asked Elon Musk to go up and get the abandoned Astronauts, because the Biden Administration was incapable of doing so," their return on a SpaceX capsule as part of its Crew-9 mission was announced last August, when NASA also revealed that Starliner would be coming back to Earth uncrewed. Though Biden was president during the Starliner launch, meaning NASA was under his purview ... Read full article.