{"id":360789,"date":"2025-11-06T22:43:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T22:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/360789\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T22:43:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T22:43:10","slug":"white-house-hits-nasa-with-dei-snark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/360789\/","title":{"rendered":"White House Hits NASA With DEI Snark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/LeavittNASA.png\" alt=\"White House Hits NASA With DEI Snark\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Keith\u2019s note:<\/strong> Everyone is pleased that Jared Isaacman is back in the NASA Administration nominee\u2019s chair at NASA. But the current Administration just can\u2019t take this win without <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PressSec\/status\/1986447061667946849\" rel=\"nofollow\"><strong>taking a swipe<\/strong><\/a> at the previous Administration by calling them out on DEI issues \u2013 including the agency\u2019s statement about sending the \u201cfirst woman\u201d to the Moon. see \u201c<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2025\/04\/07\/incoming-nasa-director-plans-make-space-great-again-establishing-agency-merit-not-dei\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">NASA Nominee Plans to Prioritize America First Agenda in Space, Not DEI<\/a>\u201c<\/strong> in the Daily Signal quoted by the White House press secretary: \u201cUnder the Biden administration, the public emphasis of the 2026 mission to the moon, Artemis III, was taking the first woman and first person of color there. But astronaut selection is about merit, expertise, and experience, NASA press secretary Bethany Stevens said. Under the Trump administration, NASA has refined its public messaging to reinforce that Artemis is primarily about advancing space exploration.\u201d <strong>Newsflash:<\/strong> during the Trump 1.0 Administration (not The Biden Administration) the \u201cfirst woman\u201d wording was added according to the NASA press release: <strong>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/news-release\/nasa-publishes-artemis-plan-to-land-first-woman-next-man-on-moon-in-2024\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NASA Publishes Artemis Plan to Land First Woman, Next Man on Moon in 2024<\/a>.\u201d<\/strong> Just sayin\u2019. Use Grok next time to check these things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Keith\u2019s note: Everyone is pleased that Jared Isaacman is back in the NASA Administration nominee\u2019s chair at NASA.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":360790,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[3295,175260,159,783,2579,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-360789","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-artemis","9":"tag-https-nasawatch-com-trumpspace-white-house-hits-nasa-with-dei-snark-astronauts","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-space","12":"tag-trumpspace","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115505175871316814","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}