Trump Crumbles After Call to Artemis II Astronauts Hits Awkward Silence

President Donald Trump blamed a technical glitch for an awkward, minute-long silence during his Monday-night phone call with the astronauts aboard the Artemis II lunar flyby spacecraft.The president spoke with the four astronauts—Americans Christina Koch, Victor Glover, Reid Wiseman, and Canadian Jeremy Hansen—after 10:30 p.m. ET for just over 12 minutes, praising their achievements after they traveled farther from Earth than any human being in history earlier in the day.“Today, you’ve made history and made all America really proud,” Trump told the crew, who were some 250,000 miles away from Earth at the time. “Humans have never really seen anything quite like what you’re doing in a manned spacecraft. It’s really special.”