THE CURRENT → BELTWAY BRIEF Issue 1086 · November 12, 2025

Between Obit and Orbit

How to get fired by Trump and still get your job back

Between Obit and Orbit
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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as “inevitable,” because last week, Donald J. Trump re-nominated Jared Isaacman to head NASA, the same role he’d rescinded from him six months earlier.

The question is, why do some people who fall from grace manage to land on their feet, while others land on a Truth Social rant? Trump’s personnel file is full of personal comeback stories and cautionary tales, a cosmos where loyalty, silence, and timing decide who gets a second orbit.

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