Trump Becomes the First Sitting President in History to Call Astronauts Aboard the International Space Station from Mission Control

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TRUMP: "Well, this is a great honor To be with you is a great honor and I just want to thank Jessica Anil, Jack, great Americans, great patriots, brave people I wouldn’t do it I will tell you right now I hate to admit it I would not want to do it but some people love it more than anything and you have amazing courage and the job you’ve done even to be selected along with your fellow compatriots You have some very good friends on board too, from different places and I don’t know if they’re hearing us but just welcome them also But I just want to congratulate you and today, you know we announced a very big thing because we’re going to do a very special academy and whether it’s West Point Annapolis, the Coast Guard Academy if you look at the Air Force Academy we’re going to have an academy for what you people do Everybody in this room would be excited and it’ll be at the same level It has to be at the same level if we’re going to do it It has to be at that very high Level. Those are among the hardest schools to get into in the whole country I would say almost at the top And that’s what we want So we’re going to set that up and we’ll remember this day for that And I didn’t realize that when I announced it nobody knew about it And the room went sort of crazy They liked it But we just announced it and you probably saw. So congratulations on that Are you feeling well being all the way up there?"