Fox News clip on Reddit of Sec. Driscoll saying we've got a soldier on the moon.
Secretary of the Army Dan Driscoll said in an interview with Fox News that "We talked to an astronaut yesterday who's on the moon, who's a soldier."
To be fair, it was part of a much longer statement in the June 11th interview, sandwiched in between. He was responding to a statement that the DC parade was for Trump's birthday.
"The Army started planning this long in advance because what we believe is this will continue the strength and recruiting and retention that we have as young Americans across the country get to see all of the amazing things that the Army has done, whether it's helping with floods in North Carolina or wildfires in California or we talked to an astronaut yesterday who's on the moon, who's a soldier; including actually going to war and fighting to defending the freedoms that make our country so great."
Driscoll did talk to an astronaut on the International Space Station on June 9th. She's Anne McClain and is a US army colonel.
You can listen in on the conversation including McClain, on NASA's YouTube channel.
So, apparently Driscoll got mixed up between the moon and ISS. I just don't know how that's possible.
He did put up a post on his X account that includes the clip of him talking to McClain.
Nonetheless, Fox's Kilmeade did not do a follow up question to clarify things, letting it slide.
Driscoll himself was an Army lieutenant from 2007-2021 in Iraq. He was a classmate of JD Vance at Yale. And he ran for a Congressional seat in North Carolina in 2020. Being a lieutenant in the Army hardly qualifies one to be the Secretary, but this is what we get in TrumpWorld.
It is, however, funny. He did say it on camera. Rather than spending money on the Golden Dome, Trump should get a populated base on the moon and then he would declare it US territory. He's already done it with Canada and Greenland, why not the moon? What would Trump name it? MoonUSA? USAWorld? MAGAMoon? Come up with some yourself.
