Should Bill Nye the Science Guy skip the SOTU address?
Jan 30, 2018, 9:20 AM | Updated: 11:06 am
(File, Associated Press)
(File, Associated Press)
More than 35,000 people have signed a petition demanding that Bill Nye the Science Guy skip President Trump’s State of the Union address on Tuesday.
I would attend SOTU if Trump ‘adhered to basic moral values’
“President Donald Trump is a bigoted climate denier. So is Congressman Jim Bridenstine (R-OK), Trump’s embattled nominee for NASA Administrator. So why is Bill Nye “very pleased” to be Bridenstine’s guest at Trump’s first State of the Union address?
Bill, please be the Science Guy, not the Bigoted Climate Denial Guy. Cancel your plans to attend Trump’s State of the Union as Rep. Bridenstine’s guest.”
A critic of Trump’s environmental policies, Nye is expected to attend the event as the guest of Bridenstine, who was nominated to serve as the next administrator of NASA.
Democrats have criticized Bridenstine and the decision to place a politician at the head of NASA. A Senate committee approved Bridenstine’s nomination on a party-line vote, but the full Senate hasn’t yet taken it up.
“I hope to hear the president’s present plans for an ambitious, science-driven space exploration agenda,” Nye tweeted. “The U.S. Space Program has long been a source of American technical achievement, a symbol of our innovative spirit, and a source of national pride. There are extraordinary opportunities for our country, and for all humanity, in the continued exploration of space.”
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Nye urges people not to think of his State of the Union attendance as an endorsement of the administration, an endorsement of Bridenstine’s, or as “an acceptance of the recent attacks on science and the scientific community.”
