“When you see a sight like that, it’s incredible,” Trump said of the SpaceX launch, after alluding to the protests over the killing of George Floyd.
CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA — On a day of chaos across the country, President Donald Trump and his top aides orchestrated a brief escape from their problems on the ground.
Eager to recapture the nation’s attention with the momentous launch of NASA’s SpaceX capsule — the first attempt to send American astronauts into space from U.S. soil in almost a decade — Trump made his second trip to the Kennedy Space Center this week, after the initial launch was postponed Wednesday because of inclement weather. The historic feat offered Trump the patriotic backdrop he’s been yearning for — on the heels of troubling developments this week surrounding the deadly coronavirus outbreak and the killing of George Floyd, a 46-year-old African American who died in the custody of police in Minneapolis.
“As we usher in a new era of space exploration, we are reminded that America is always in the process of transcending great challenges. Nothing — not even gravity itself — can hold Americans down or keep America back,” Trump said at a small reception on the Kennedy Space Center campus after the successful launch of the Falcon 9 rocket. Continue reading.