>Trump has a massive ego and I would have expected him to want the biggest rockets, and to pain them gold. Sure, but he has to weigh the cost of funding intell

>Trump has a massive ego and I would have expected him to want the biggest rockets, and to pain them gold. Sure, but he has to weigh the cost of funding intellectual elites against the benefit of what they can make for him. His base wants smaller government and doesn't want intellectuals. So, the move is to defund NASA and fund a military parade on his birthday. This undermines the future, but the future past 3.5 years is not his problem.