Isaacman shows up as surprise speaker at Turning Point USA event in Alabama
In what could very well explain why Donald Trump changed his mind about Jared Isaacman’s nomination for NASA administration, Isaacman showed up unexpectedly at a Turning Point USA event at Auburn University in Alabama this past week, where he described how the murder of Charlie Kirk had profoundly changed his outlook on life.
[O]n a very personal note, I didn’t grow up very religious at all — my mother’s family, we celebrate Christmas. My father’s family, we celebrated Hanukkah. But I can tell you, having gone to space twice and looking back on our planet, looking at the stars around us, it is very hard not to be spiritual.
But it was only recently, in the last couple weeks that I was inspired for the first time in a very long time to pick up the Bible, and I’ll tell you why.
It’s because of Charlie, and it’s for Charlie, and there’s millions others just like me. Thank you.”
One of the theories as to why Trump withdrew Isaacman’s nomination in May was because of Isaacman’s past political and financial support for numerous Democratic Party candidates, along with his apparent support for DEI at his companies. It was speculated that once Trump learned of these associations during the confirmation process he decided Isaacman was not trustworthy and dumped him.
I wonder now if Isaacman changed Trump’s mind when they met several times in the past few weeks by talking about Kirk’s assassination and how it had changed Isaacman. I can easily see how that would have influenced Trump.
This is also another case of the Democrats and their most radical and public cohort doing a good job of alienating another former Democrat, simply by advocating and committing violence against those who disagree. They did it to Trump and Elon Musk, both former Democrats, and apparently they have done it to Isaacman as well.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The print edition can be purchased at Amazon or from any other book seller. If you want an autographed copy the price is $60 for the hardback and $45 for the paperback, plus $8 shipping for each. Go here for purchasing details. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
In what could very well explain why Donald Trump changed his mind about Jared Isaacman’s nomination for NASA administration, Isaacman showed up unexpectedly at a Turning Point USA event at Auburn University in Alabama this past week, where he described how the murder of Charlie Kirk had profoundly changed his outlook on life.
[O]n a very personal note, I didn’t grow up very religious at all — my mother’s family, we celebrate Christmas. My father’s family, we celebrated Hanukkah. But I can tell you, having gone to space twice and looking back on our planet, looking at the stars around us, it is very hard not to be spiritual.
But it was only recently, in the last couple weeks that I was inspired for the first time in a very long time to pick up the Bible, and I’ll tell you why.
It’s because of Charlie, and it’s for Charlie, and there’s millions others just like me. Thank you.”
One of the theories as to why Trump withdrew Isaacman’s nomination in May was because of Isaacman’s past political and financial support for numerous Democratic Party candidates, along with his apparent support for DEI at his companies. It was speculated that once Trump learned of these associations during the confirmation process he decided Isaacman was not trustworthy and dumped him.
I wonder now if Isaacman changed Trump’s mind when they met several times in the past few weeks by talking about Kirk’s assassination and how it had changed Isaacman. I can easily see how that would have influenced Trump.
This is also another case of the Democrats and their most radical and public cohort doing a good job of alienating another former Democrat, simply by advocating and committing violence against those who disagree. They did it to Trump and Elon Musk, both former Democrats, and apparently they have done it to Isaacman as well.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The print edition can be purchased at Amazon or from any other book seller. If you want an autographed copy the price is $60 for the hardback and $45 for the paperback, plus $8 shipping for each. Go here for purchasing details. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
This whole escapade leads me to suspect that there are anti-Trump players at senior levels of the administration, players who are adept at using Trump’s (completely justified) paranoia about disloyalty and his mercurial temperament to sow discord and distrust. Every time one of these saboteurs strikes a chord, the media stands ready to amplify the potential misalignment into a crisis capable of derailing a major part of the administration’s program. Democrats, especially those in the pocket of the CCP, play for keeps. They are so willing to hurt Trump that they help our enemies hurt America!
It’s possible – I mean, there was no lack of such people in the first Trump term.
Some of this looks like petty turf battles, though. I think Duffy was thinking mostly or entirely about just his own political career. I think Sergio Gor was mostly or entirely thinking about Elon intruding on his turf.
Ray Van Dune,
Given the size of the federal workforce, even after all of the RIFs that have occurred pursuant to the government shutdown, and also its overwhelmingly Democrat-aligned nature, there are certainly such people still around, but I don’t think any of them are actually in the White House anymore – unlike in Trump’s first term. Trump’s biggest problem then was that he had been primarily motivated by money his entire life and didn’t understand people whose primary motivation was power. Having received several post-graduate degrees in the university of hard knocks during his first term and the Biden interregnum, Trump has largely rectified that previous lack of perspective.
Anent the government workforce writ large, at least one Cabinet Sec’y., Kristi Noem at DHS, has embarked on a program to polygraph literally everyone on the department payroll to ferret out remaining weasels. This will probably work for all but the genuine Grade A psychopaths in their ranks. I wish all of the other Cabinet Sec’ys would do likewise.
It is not true to say that the current Trump White House is an entirely weasel-free zone, but it’s orders of magnitude more so than it was during Presidency 45. And the weasels of today are not weaseling on behalf of ideology or foreign governments but simply for their own accounts. Short-term, can’t-see-beyond-the-end-of-one’s-nose, blind-to-the-big-picture personal ambition weaseling of the sort we’ve been seeing from Sean Duffy lately will, one hopes, get him ejected from Trump’s circle of trust at a minimum and perhaps out of the administration entirely. Sergio Gor, meanwhile, has been “kicked upstairs” to New Delhi.
Richard M,
I think you are correct that the remaining dysfunction in the Trump 47 White House is mainly coming from people, like Gor and Duffy, who are just reflexive turf-defenders and self-aggrandizers, respectively. They aren’t disloyal fifth-columnists, just people with inflated senses of their own importance and inadequate grasps of the big picture. Good help really is hard to get.