Artemis II’s astronauts got a White House welcome this week, but the moment quickly spiraled into something far weirder when the President Donald Trump decided to brag about his own astronaut potential. Crew members Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen, had wrapped their 10-day lunar flyby mission on April 11, marking a major milestone for NASA’s Artemis program.
Their visit to the Oval Office on April 29, 2026, was supposed to celebrate that achievement, but the conversation took a sharp turn when the president leaned into the mic and declared, “I’m physically very, very good,” insisting he’d have “no trouble” making it as an astronaut. The Artemis II crew stood on either side of him as he sat in the Oval Office chair, looking like they’d just stepped out of a history book.
