Trump's Wild Claim About His Ability To Be An Astronaut Is Turning Heads

President Donald Trump made a baffling statement during a visit with the Artemis II crew in the Oval Office on Wednesday. He seemingly claimed to be physically fit enough to travel to space.

“To get in there, you have to be very smart. You have to do a lot of things physically good. So I would’ve had no trouble making it. I’m physically very, very good,” Trump said as astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen stood awkwardly behind him.

The president then asked NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman: “Is the president allowed to go up in one of these missions?”

“We can get working on that, sir,” Isaacman replied.

In his youth, Trump was apparently not physically fit enough to serve in the military during the Vietnam War. The president famously received multiple draft deferments in the 1960s to finish his college education. However, he also received a medical deferment for bone spurs in 1968 after he had graduated.

Critics on social media quickly jumped at the opportunity to suggest it may be good for the country to send the president to space, and to lambaste the idea that he would be physically fit enough to do so:

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