Donald Trump praises ‘super hearing’ of NASA chief’s ‘beautiful’ ears

Imagine you study your whole life, getting top grades, avoiding house parties, to finally become an astronaut and then made a top NASA chief.

Your big moment arrives, the President is going to honour you for sending astronauts around the moon at the White House.

A question from a reporter about moving your headquarters being moved is deflected to you, it is your time to shine but just as you start to answer, your physical appearance is used for a couple of cheap laughs.

This happened to NASA administrator Jared Isaacman. Donald Trump dodged the question but told the whole world ‘The best man to tell you that is the man sitting right over here.

‘You heard that question with those beautiful ears of yours? He’s got great hearing you know. He’s got super hearing,’ to laughs in the Oval Office.

Isaacman fires back: ‘Trick of the trade, sir.’

One commentator said: ‘He probably handled that as deftly as one could hope’.

But it looked like they quicky buried the hatchet. Trump said: I’m ‘very proud of these people. They have unbelievable courage, unbelievable, a lot of other things too, by the way.

‘To get in there, you have to be very smart, have to do a lot of things physically good. So I would have had no trouble making it! I’m physically very, very good, maybe a little bit of a problem.

Turning to Isaacman he says: ‘We’ll have to try it sometimes. Is a president, allowed to go up in one of these missions?

Isaacman replies: ‘We can get working on that, sir! If we can put up more rockets, there are more opportunities.’

Who is Jared Isaacman?

Isaacman is an American billionaire private astronaut and tech entrepreneur who became NASA chief just in December.

Isaacman commanded Inspiration4 – the first all-civilian spaceflight which launched on September 16, 2021.

He later led Polaris Dawn, during which he became the first private citizen to perform a spacewalk.

Isaacman’s main job now is fighting for NASA’s budget and even defending Trump’s cuts to NASA after winning his nomination.

Critics are sceptical of his links to SpaceX and Elon Musk, fearing NASA might prioritise a Mars landing driven by SpaceX’s ambitions over their own.

These concerns intensified following Musk’s calls to decommission the International Space Station.

Isaacman retains a burning passion for Pluto.

At the very end of a hearing yesterday, Republican Sen. Jerry Moran asked the NASA administrator his thoughts on Pluto, noting that Tombaugh hailed from Moran’s home state of Kansas.

‘Senator, I am very much in the camp of ‘make Pluto a planet again,’ Isaacman replied.

‘And I would say, we are doing some papers right now on, I think, a position that we would love to escalate through the scientific community to revisit this discussion and ensure that Clyde Tombaugh gets the credit he received once and rightfully deserves to receive again,’ the NASA chief added.