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This week, President Donald Trump — facing increasingly worse approval ratings on issues ranging from the Iran war to immigration — is touting a U.S. program to colonize the moon.

“Under NASA’s Artemis program, American astronauts will soon return to establish a permanent American presence on the moon,” Trump said, in remarks unveiling a supposed “New Golden Age” of science initiatives on Thursday.

“And then, we will go to Mars,” Trump added.

The remarks were meant to unveil the administration’s initiative to funnel $6 billion into artificial intelligence companies, including NVIDIA, Anthropic and Google, and OpenAI, as well as investments in AI infrastructure in partnership with universities across 10 states, a White House press release said. The release also touted that Trump has “replaced DEI with merit across the Federal R&D enterprise,” and said that the administration is “bringing back national missions.” It does not mention the Artemis program.

White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Director Michael Kratsios characterized the announcement as “the most transformative day for the American scientific enterprise since the reshaping of the Federal research ecosystem following World War II,” perhaps ignoring the tens of billions of dollars of scientific grants that the administration has sought to cut under sweeping initiatives by Elon Musk last year.

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