Trump reportedly offered NASA 'all the money you could ever need' to land on Mars during his presidency

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• President Donald Trump reportedly offered the NASA "all the money you could ever need" to land on Mars by the first term of his presidency, according to a report from New York Magazine that cited an upcoming memoir by the former White House communications official Cliff Sims.
• The story said Trump appeared "distracted" at times during the discussion and asked a NASA official: "What if we sent NASA's budget through the roof, but focused entirely on that instead of whatever else you're doing now. Could it work then?"

President Donald Trump reportedly offered the NASA "all the money you could ever need" to land on Mars by the first term of his presidency, according to a New York Magazine report citing an upcoming memoir from a former White House communications official.

In "Team of Vipers: My 500 Extraordinary Days in the Trump White House," former White House Message Strategy director Cliff Sims recalls that immediately before a phone call with astronauts aboard the International Space Station in April 2017, Trump expressed a deep fascination for sending humans to Mars during his first term.

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