A close friend of Donald Trump promoted. 53 years and originally from the state of Wisconsin (northwest of the United States), Sean Duffy was appointed by the president of the United States, “NASA’s interim administrator”, this Wednesday, July 9.
The leader, who made the announcement directly through his social social network network, praised the arrival of “an exceptional leader” to the head of the American space agency Shaken, recently, for important budget cuts.
A position with very high responsibilities for Sean Duffy, therefore, known throughout the Atlantic for its total support for the “Make America Great Again” movement (Maga) and whose personal and professional trip is more atypical.
A preservative closer to television than science
At the end of the 1990s, Sean Duffy participated in a very popular reality reality reality show in the United States and titled “The real world.” Locked in a villa for several weeks with a dozen other candidates, films 7 days a week and 24 hours a day. As soon as the first episodes and “transparency” too large of candidates such as alcohol consumption, sexuality or even politics are transmitted, the program is judged by certain spectators of “very poor quality”.
It is in the set of “The real world” that they are Duffy knows his future wife, and mother of his eight children, the former Fox News Rachel Campos present. Both share the same vision of the world; A very conservative vision: Catholic, anti -abortion, openly against same -sex marriage and professional citizen. Duffy spouses will participate in the last time in “The Real World” in 2003, making public the images of their wedding ceremony.
In 1999, Sean Duffy completed his law studies and officially became a lawyer and then, a handful of years later, became prosecutor of Ashland County in Wisconsin. It will be selected to this position three times until 2008.
On November 18, Donald Trump decided to appoint him for the Secretary of Transportation. An appointment confirmed in January 2025 during the inauguration of the new president.
On the other hand, in the CV of Sean Duffy, reference is not made to science. In addition, man is unknown in the aerospace field and has never had functions related to him. A point that raises questions, especially with respect to the financial and ideological difficulties that NASA currently finds.
At the latest on July 7, the Political newspaper reported the “forced departure” of more than 2,000 managers of the space agency as part of a plan to reduce expenses. “What is the strategy and what are the objectives mentioned here?” When asked in article Casey Dreier, head of the NGO Space Policy, the planetary society.
The second option
Although it is very close to Donald Trump, the appointment of Sean Duffy sounds, from the conflict between the president and billionaire Elon Musk, as an alternative solution.
In fact, already occupying the position of Minister of Transportation for 5 months, Sean Duffy did not intend to be appointed NASA pattern. At least, not so early. This seat should have naturally returned to Jared Isaacman, an astronaut and businessman around forty years old who collaborated in several projects in Spacex; A company that is none other than the property … by Elon Musk.
“I also thought it would be unpleasant that a very close friend of Elon, who was in the space industry, directs NASA, while NASA is such an important part of Elon’s activity,” said Donald Trump.
However, appointed head of the American Space Agency in December 2024 by Donald Trump himself, Jared Isaacman seemed more than legitimate to see his prolonged function. It was without the “struggle” of the musk face of the month of May about the end of fiscal credits for electric vehicles in the last budget law. Therefore, Jared Isaacman had been fired.
According to AFP, the White House would have tried, with a previous appointment, “even if it is only for a short period” of Sean Duffy to NASA, to minimize the risks of conflicts of interest directly involving the Spacex manager.
Source: BFM TV
