President Donald Trump couldn’t say whether the war he launched against Iran in February would end before the four-year-old Russian war against Ukraine — and even confused the two countries — as he turned an Oval Office meeting to honor the Artemis II lunar mission crew into a wide-ranging media session with reporters.
After a spare, two minutes of remarks to honor the NASA crew that traveled further into space than any humans before — during which Trump, 79, claimed he was physically fit enough to launch into deep space as they did (”Is a president allowed to go up in one of these missions,” he asked NASA administrator Jared Isaacman) — the president immediately began a question-and-answer session that veered from UFOs to a recent conversation with Russian president Vladimir Putin that had focused on the Ukraine and Iran wars.
