OrangeVerse X: To Infinity + Beyond (part 1)

On Friday, the president signed another Executive Order, his 39th if my count is correct.

We are reminded that he was not going to do all that many of these, but it does get him in front of the cameras, and there's nowhere else he'd rather be. It gets Mike Pence in front of cameras, too -- since he's the Introducer-in-Chief, and, not for nothing, it gives the @TrumpDraws Twitter account something to do. Let's look in on the festivities.

Open Wide

The future of

American space leadership

we're going to lead

again. It's been 

a long time. 

It's over

25 years

and we're opening up

and we are going to be

leading again like

we've never led before. 

Frontierus Interruptus

We are a nation

of pioneers and the next

great American frontier is space.

And we never completed

-- we started but we never completed. 

We stopped.

But now we start again.

And we have

tremendous spirit and

we're going to have tremendous spirit

from the private sector--

maybe in particular

from the private sector.

Oh Look, There's Wilbur
We're also joined
by our great Secretary of Commerce
Wilbur Ross.
who spent the morning
negotiating
trade deals with South Korea.

And I think

we're going to make a 

good deal

right?

I think so.

That's what the

word is. 

And good for both 

countries.

National Space Council

Today we're taking

a crucial step

to secure America's future

in space

by reviving the

National Space Council

after it was - has been

dormant

almost 25 years

if you can believe it.

The Pence Promise

Vice President Pence promised

that our administration -

because Mike is very into space

would revive the National Space Council... 

we're keeping that promise. 

Feel very strongly

about it. I've felt

strongly about it for 

a long time.

I used to say

before doing what I did -

I used to say

what happened?

Why aren't we moving

forward?