Trump taps Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy as interim NASA chief

[Elderberry]

AA by Serdar Dincel 7/10/2025

'Sean is doing a TREMENDOUS job in handling our Country’s Transportation Affairs, including creating a state-of-the-art Air Traffic Control system,' president says

US President Donald Trump on Wednesday named Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy as the interim administrator of the space agency NASA.

"Sean is doing a TREMENDOUS job in handling our Country’s Transportation Affairs, including creating a state-of-the-art Air Traffic Control system, while at the same time rebuilding our roads and bridges, making them efficient, and beautiful, again," Trump wrote in a Truth Social post announcing the appointment.

He indicated that Duffy may serve only "for a short period of time."

It remains to be seen whether he intends to seek the required Senate confirmation for the position.

"He will be a fantastic leader of the ever more important Space Agency, even if only for a short period of time," Trump said while also congratulating Duffy.

More: https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/trump-taps-transportation-secretary-sean-duffy-as-interim-nasa-chief/3626644

[mountaineer]

Marco Rubio is relieved, I'm sure.

[Elderberry]

Sean Duffy finds a new mode of transportation to be scared of

Daily KOS by Lisa Needham 7/10/2025

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is adding another role to his current gig, for which he has no qualifications, as interim NASA chief—a position in which he is similarly unqualified.

We are all being forced to see Duffy cosplay as an astronaut because President Donald Trump and Elon Musk got in a slap fight. One of the many pieces of fallout from that breakup was Trump’s pulling Jason Isaacman as his NASA nominee to spite Musk, who picked Isaacman.

Just think: Duffy will bring the same gravitas and capability to NASA that he has brought to the crises at the Federal Aviation Administration—blaming President Joe Biden, moving Jesus out of the basement, muttering like a weirdo about how everything at the FAA went to hell because you can no longer say “cockpit.”

More: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/7/10/2332667/-Transportation-secretary-takes-his-lack-of-expertise-to-NASA?pm_campaign=blog&pm_medium=rss&pm_source=main

[mountaineer]

Aw, Daily Kos is butthurt.

[corbe]

   I guess it makes sense to appoint a Lawyer to NASA, since they've probably killed a trans in space by now.

[Bigun]

Aw, Daily Kos is butthurt.

The more they cry the better I like it! (When they say unqualified, they mean not a certified swamp dweller.)