How to get fired by Trump and still get your job back
wo months ago, during an interview with Jared Isaacman ahead of my trip to Musk’s town of Starbase, Texas, the subject of his aborted NASA nomination came up. It was early September; the wound was still fresh, the headlines recent enough to sting. At one point, I told him to enjoy the downtime while it lasted, assuring him that eventually, Trump would give him another shot.
Isaacman smiled politely but didn’t share my optimism.
“I consider that low probability,” the entrepreneur astronaut said, before adding with a shrug, “but I guess we’ll see.”
Turns out, we saw. The “low probability” outcome has just been reclassified as “inevitable,” because last week, Donald J. Trump re-nominated Jared Isaacman to head NASA, the same role he’d rescinded from him six months earlier.
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