[Video] Follow-up: [Video] Trump's Kennedy Space Center Remarks: 'NASA Is Back,' World's Biggest Air Show Pledged for 2028

President Trump has wrapped up his remarks at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Brevard County, Florida, kicking off the agency's inaugural MAX POWER expo. He took the stage at 6:04 p.m. Eastern on November 6, after watching a U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds flyover alongside Governor-elect Byron Donalds and NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman. GSM's first story reported the event; this follow-up covers the substance of the remarks.

'NASA is back,' Trump declared, saying America would be 'first on earth, first in the skies, and of course, first in space.' He recalled the state of NASA when he took office in his first term in 2017, and said, 'We make the best space equipment, military equipment of anybody in the world. Nobody even close.'

He praised NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman as 'the best administrator in NASA history,' calling him 'a pilot, an astronaut, a painter,' and said, 'I was very proud to pick him.' Isaacman had welcomed him by saying, 'Mr. President, welcome to Kennedy Space Center. Welcome to Max Power.'

Trump recognized the astronauts in attendance, introducing the Artemis II crew — commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover and mission specialist Jeremy Hansen — and Artemis III astronauts Randy Bresnik and Frank Rubio, joking about whether Frank Rubio is related to Secretary of State Marco Rubio. He pledged that Artemis III will return American astronauts to the lunar surface before the end of his term, followed by a permanent presence on the Moon.

He also announced plans to turn the area around Kennedy's Launch and Landing Facility — the former Space Shuttle runway, roughly 1,900 acres — into the place where space companies unveil their newest work, and proposed staging the world's largest air show there in 2028, bigger than the Paris Air Show, drawing hundreds of thousands of visitors a year and billions of dollars in economic impact. 'We believe that the future of those industries should be unveiled right here in the USA,' he said. Isaacman has dubbed the annual gathering 'Capeweek.'

Deputy Energy Secretary James Danly, speaking at the same event, said the United States will send a nuclear reactor to the Moon from Cape Canaveral in 2028, calling Trump 'the president who sends nuclear power to the moon.' Trump also cited the day's jobs report — 165,000 jobs added in October — and, turning to the midterm elections, said the stock market had lost about $3 trillion in a single day after the vote, repeating that he was not on the ballot.

Background: the MAX POWER expo runs November 6-8, with its main events on November 7-8 alongside the UP.Summit; the Thunderbirds fly on Saturday and Sunday. On November 3, Trump signed the American Space Freedom Declaration proclamation. The White House had not yet released an official transcript when this follow-up was published; the points above are drawn from the official livestream replay and multiple on-site reports, with quotations limited to those carried consistently by multiple outlets. The replay on this page starts at the formal beginning of the program.

Related: [Video Trump Delivers Remarks at Kennedy Space Center, Kicking Off NASA's Inaugural MAX POWER Expo]

(Source: The White House)

Source: The White House

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