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Incoming NASA Administrator Brags That He Has No Idea What's Going On

"I'm a humble nominee on the outside, hoping for a chance to contribute."

This is akin to yours truly tasked with running a large restaurant as this individual has absolutely no idea on how to properly run one. I learn fast but any given discipline requires thousands of hours and years of experience to become good at one's job. No question Isaacman's smart as he knows tech and made a lot of money processing payments but having experience in research and science is not part of his equation but this is par for the course for Trump as unqualified people become cabinet officials based on loyalty to The Donald, not knowledge or competency.

Isaacman has reportedly been preparing for his upcoming confirmation hearing in Washington, DC. But given his latest tweet, he still has a lot to learn. The man, who's about to oversee an agency that's expected to be gutted in the coming months and years, knows astonishingly little of what's going on — and he seems proud of that fact.

According to a recent reporting by Ars Technica, the Trump administration is looking to slash the space agency's science budget by as much as 50 percent, which could prove disastrous for the future of space research.

You'd think that would be top of mind for Isaacman, but his head is instead blissfully empty.

"I'm a humble nominee on the outside, hoping for a chance to contribute," he tweeted over the weekend, responding to a post that referenced the news. "I don't know anything about those supposed cuts, but the President said he's targeting fraud, waste & abuse w/ a scalpel — not a hatchet."

It's a surprisingly tone-deaf outburst that rehashes largely meaningless claims made by president Donald Trump during a recent Cabinet meeting.

Isacman downplayed Ars' reporting, dismissing it as "rumor and speculation."

But what if there's some truth to those rumors? Does Isaacman really not know what's going on, despite being widely expected to take control of NASA? If there's one person who should arguably be clued into any upcoming, potentially existential cuts to NASA's budget, it should be him.

"This is not a good sign," Keith Cowing, founder of an unofficial NASA advocacy group called NASA Watch, responded. "It would seem by virtue of this tweet that [Isaacman] has not been following the news that closely — even if he is still a nominee."

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