{"id":290064,"date":"2025-10-09T19:57:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T19:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/290064\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T19:57:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T19:57:12","slug":"trump-meets-with-isaacman-about-top-nasa-job-after-pulling-nomination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/290064\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump meets with Isaacman about top NASA job after pulling nomination"},"content":{"rendered":"

Commander Jared Isaacman of Polaris Dawn, a private human spaceflight mission, speaks at a press conference at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S. August 19, 2024.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Joe Skipper | Reuters<\/p>\n

President Donald Trump<\/a> has met with Jared Isaacman<\/a> to discuss another nomination to lead NASA<\/a>, a source familiar with the talks confirmed to CNBC’s Morgan Brennan<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Isaacman, who has close ties with SpaceX<\/a> CEO Elon Musk<\/a>, was at the White House<\/a> in September for Trump’s dinner for tech power players. Musk did not attend.<\/p>\n

After a fiery back-and-forth between Musk and Trump over government spending, the president pulled Isaacman’s nomination for the post, saying he was a “blue blooded Democrat, who had never contributed to a Republican before.”<\/p>\n

“I also thought it inappropriate that a very close friend of Elon, who was in the Space Business, run NASA, when NASA is such a big part of Elon’s corporate life,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social<\/a> post on June 6.<\/p>\n

Trump named Transportation Secretary Sean\u00a0Duffy<\/a> interim head of NASA in July.<\/p>\n

Bloomberg<\/a> was first to report on the meetings between Isaacman and Trump.<\/p>\n

Isaacman, who declined to comment, was initially nominated in December to lead the space agency<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Isaacman is a seasoned space traveller, having led two private spaceflights with SpaceX in 2021 and 2024. Shift4 has invested $27.5 million in SpaceX, according to a 2021 filing.<\/p>\n

Isaacman stepped down as CEO from Shift4<\/a>, the payments company he founded in 1999 at the age of 16, after his nomination was pulled, and now serves as executive chairman<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Even knowing the outcome, I\u00a0would do it all over again,” Isaacman wrote about the NASA nomination process in a letter to investors<\/a> announcing the Shift4 change.<\/p>\n

It now looks like he gets to do it all over again, with tensions between Musk and Trump cooling in the months since.<\/p>\n

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