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Remarks: Donald Trump Congratulates the Roman Space Telescope Team Via Telephone - August 30, 2026

12:00 PM
Donald Trump 00:00:00-00:00:20 (21 sec)

Okay, I just want to thank everybody, and congratulate you. Boy, it looked beautiful on television. I just, uh, called Jared to find out, is there anything negative that I should know about? Like, it will never be able to return. Little things like that. He said, "no, it's looking great. It couldn't be better." And it was another great successful launch.

Donald Trump 00:00:20-00:00:27 (7 sec)

Jared's doing a fantastic job. You are doing a fantastic job. And I'm supplying you all that money. [Laughter]

Jared Isaacman 00:00:27-00:00:36 (8 sec)

Well, Mr. -- Mr. President, you got a lot of smiling people in the room right now that are very happy to hear those words, and we will put it to excellent use.

Donald Trump 00:00:36-00:00:55 (19 sec)

Well, keep it up. We're back. You know, when I looked originally when I got involved for the first term, my first month, I went to look at a couple of your locations, and I thought, you know, you're going to have a lot of I said, you probably heard it the other day, but we had that wonderful news conference, but grass was growing through the cracks in the runways, and there were a lot of cracks, and I looked.

Donald Trump 00:00:55-00:01:09 (15 sec)

I said, the place was closed, and it's Florida in this case, and it was just literally closed, and now, again, like we are with the country itself, where the hottest there is. We're the hottest -- you're the hottest in space, and we have the hottest country anywhere in the world. So, let's keep it all going.

Donald Trump 00:01:09-00:01:12 (3 sec)

You're a big part of it. Let's keep it all going.

Jared Isaacman 00:01:12-00:01:13 ( sec)

Yes, Mr. President.

Donald Trump 00:01:13-00:01:14 (1 sec)

Congratulations.

Jared Isaacman 00:01:14-00:01:15 (1 sec)

Thank you. We're all excited.

Donald Trump 00:01:15-00:01:15 (1 sec)

Keep up the good work, Jared.

Jared Isaacman 00:01:15-00:01:15 ( sec)

Thank you.

Donald Trump 00:01:15-00:01:17 (1 sec)

Good. Thank you very much.

Jared Isaacman 00:01:17-00:01:18 (1 sec)

Take care, Mr. President.

Donald Trump 00:01:18-00:01:18 ( sec)

Good luck, everybody.

Jared Isaacman 00:01:18-00:01:19 (1 sec)

Goodbye.

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