Trump Flips And Re-nominates Jared Isaacman To Lead Nasa

On Tuesday, President Donald Trump announced connected his societal media level Truth Social that he is re-nominating Shift4 laminitis Jared Isaacman to lead nan NASA, nan nation’s abstraction agency, months aft withdrawing nan nomination.

The reversal comes aft weeks of online sniping from Elon Musk and others directed astatine Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy, who has been starring NASA successful an interim capacity.

“The support from nan space-loving organization has been overwhelming. I americium not judge really I earned nan spot of truthful many, but I will do everything I tin to unrecorded up to those expectations,” Isaacman — who is besides a billionaire aviator and backstage astronaut — wrote successful a post connected X connected Tuesday evening.

Earlier Tuesday, earlier nan re-nomination, Isaacman posted his vision for NASA connected nan platform. He decided to people those plans aft a draught type was circulated successful Washington among those seeking to support Duffy successful complaint of NASA. Isaacman said he suspected “political operators” were “causing nan controversy” betwixt himself and Duffy.