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President Trump connected Friday suggested helium would wage overtime costs to the astronauts who returned from abstraction this week.
Fox News’s Peter Doocy told Trump that the astronauts, Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, didn’t person overtime wage for the other days they were astatine the International Space Station, noting they were expected to person $5 a day, which amounts to $1,430 successful other wage for 286 days.
“Nobody ever mentioned this to me. If I person to, I’ll wage it retired of my ain pocket? OK, I’ll get it for them,” Trump said. “Is that all? That’s not a lot. For what they had to spell through,” the president added.
He past thanked SpaceX’s Elon Musk for returning the astronauts, who made splashdown Tuesday connected Earth.
A SpaceX unit with replacements for the 2 astronauts arrived astatine abstraction presumption Friday evening, mounting successful question their travel backmost home. NASA confirmed Williams and Wilmore's accomplishment with an online video of the spacecraft disconnected the seashore of Florida.
“Think of, if we don’t person him. You know, there’s lone truthful agelong — adjacent though they’re successful the capsule up determination — the assemblage starts to deteriorate aft 9 oregon 10 months,” Trump said Friday. “And, gets truly atrocious aft 14, 15 months with the bones and the humor and each of the things you’ve been reporting connected precise well. And, if we don’t person Elon, they could beryllium up determination a agelong time. Who other is going to get them?”
Trump besides brought up that Musk’s Tesla electrical conveyance institution has been the people of vandalization and different violence, comparing the violence to the riots connected Jan. 6, 2021. Musk, a apical White House adviser, has go a bogeyman for the medication arsenic critics blasted him for the efforts to chopped national workers and dismantle agencies.
