Trump’s Call With Astronauts Gets Out-Of-This-World Weird After Awkward Hiccup | EUROtoday

Leave it to President Donald Trump to take issues light-years away from regular.

During a dwell name between the president and NASA’s Artemis II crew on Monday, Trump left astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen completely confused after a clumsy pause on his finish that lasted a little bit over a minute.

The second occurred about 9 minutes into the video, after Hansen, the lone Canadian on the crew, thanked Trump on behalf of Canada for his “space leadership.”

Trump responded that he’d spoken to legendary Canadian hockey participant Wayne Gretzky and Prime Minister Mark Carney about Hansen, and mentioned they have been each pleased with him.

“You have a lot of courage doing what you do, a lot of bravery, and a lot of genius. But they are very, very proud of you,” Trump mentioned.

As the crew beamed from the praise and commenced to goof round with their mic, which was spinning midair due to zero gravity, the dialog on Trump’s finish bought as silent as deep house.

At first, the astronauts appeared to imagine that the dialog was over, with Wiseman and Hansen nodding and giving a thumbs-up, which prompted Glover to begin clapping.

But after shuffling noises may very well be heard on Trump’s finish, the crew started to squirm a bit. Wiseman lastly took the mic and requested “a quick comms check” to verify somebody was “still on the line.” This prompted Trump to lastly communicate.

“I am, yes,” he mentioned, drawing laughter from mission management.

“Yeah, I think we might have gotten cut off. It is a long distance. It’s a long ways. The reception’s been great,” Trump continued, earlier than continuing to recap his speaking factors about Gretzky and Canada.

“There’s a little bit of about a nine-second delay, but uh no, I just had a, uh, a statement for, I don’t know what you heard, but, uh, I was just saying they’re very proud of your brilliant person from Canada on the ship, and Wayne Gretzky is a great friend of mine, and he’s very proud of him, and the prime minister I spoke to, they’re very, very honored that, uh, you have a courageous person from Canada. You have a lot of courageous people from Canada. So, it was very nice. I, I’m not sure if you heard me say that, but it was very nice.”

When clips of the lengthy pause made it to X, customers piled on in regards to the awkwardness of the second. Some even talked about that the Trump administration had despatched a finances proposal on Friday — within the midst of the Artemis II mission — to have NASA’s finances slashed by 23%.

Read their responses beneath.