Why did Elon Musk just say Trump wants to bring two stranded astronauts home?
For reasons that were not immediately clear, SpaceX founder Elon Musk took to his social media site X on Tuesday evening to make a perplexing space-based pronouncement.
"The POTUS has asked SpaceX to bring home the 2 astronauts stranded on the Space_Station as soon as possible. We will do so," Musk wrote. "Terrible that the Biden administration left them there so long."
Now generally, at Ars Technica, it is not our policy to write stories strictly based on things Elon Musk says on X. However, this statement was so declarative, and so consternation-inducing for NASA, it bears a bit of explication.
lmao bullshit, Ars loves to sneed about everything Elon does; it's basically TMZ but only covering Elon.
Foremost, NASA has gone to great lengths to stress that the two astronauts referenced here—Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams—are not stranded on the International Space Station.
The astronauts are clearly stranded as has been covered extensively over the last year by even leftie organisations:
NPR also released an article insisting that the astronauts aren't stranded - https://www.npr.org/2025/01/28/nx-s1-5278636/iss-astronaut-rescue-spacex-trump:
Ars comments are of course mad:
Why wouldn't the US government want to bring two stranded astronauts home? Why is this the top comment? What are you mad about?
They were meant to be there for eight days. The eighteen month stay was planned.
And yet they're still stranded there, curious. Why don't they just fly back home? They must want to be there.
The bottom two comments - note the guy who's had an account for 17 years.
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Why did you change from being RWBY?
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!friendsofsphereserf I will now attempt to communicate with Spherechief in his people's language, though I may be a little rusty
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T'ááłá'í íiyisí yáhoot'ééł.
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I don't get it?
Rude to assume that I speak Dineh
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chʼį́įdii!
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No
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Why?
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Did you drop the RWBY gimmick because of me showing the trvkeralds about how bvilt all RWBBC snowbunnies are?
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Dealbreaker for me is the lack of privacy when you need to #2. Everybody is aware of how long it takes you, and at what frequency.
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Isn't there more than one potty though?
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Not if you spend the whole day squatting over a bag
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I don't get it
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