---
title: "Watch Astronaut Jessica Meir Tell Trump He’s Wrong, From Space"
description: "When Donald Trump confused the first all-female ISS spacewalk for the first female spacewalk, astronaut Jessica Meir was quick to correct him."
date: "2019-10-18"
modified: "2019-10-18"
authors:
  - name: "Jon Christian"
    job_title: "Executive Editor"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/jonc"
url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/watch-spacewalk-astronaut-trump-wrong"
categories:
  - "Off-World"
  - "Space"
tags:
  - "NASA"
  - "spacewalk"
  - "the digest"
  - "trump"
---

# Watch Astronaut Jessica Meir Tell Trump He’s Wrong, From Space

![When Donald Trump confused the first all-female ISS spacewalk for the first female spacewalk, astronaut Jessica Meir was quick to correct him.](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/watch-spacewalk-astronaut-fact-check-trump.jpg>)
*\<em\>Image: Image by Gage Skidmore via Flickr/Tag Hartman-Simkins\</em\>*

## Space Case

On Friday, U.S. President Donald Trump [called](<https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/18/science/space/nasa-female-spacewalk.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur>) NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Christina Koch as they floated outside the International Space Station. The reason: to congratulate them on the [first-ever all-woman spacewalk](<https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/18/world/nasa-all-female-spacewalk-koch-meir-scn-trnd/index.html>).

Except that Trump got a key detail wrong, claiming that it was the first time a woman had been outside the space station for a spacewalk. And Meir was quick to correct him.

## Slap Down

During the brief call, Trump told the astronauts that it was the "first time for a woman outside of the space station." Moments later, he reiterated that it was the "first-ever female spacewalk."

But Meir wasn't having it, administering a quick fact check from orbit.

"First of all, we don’t want to take too much credit, because there have been many other female spacewalkers before us," she said. "This is just the first time there have been two women outside at the same time."

https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1185233831420403712

**READ MORE:** [Classic: Trump Interrupts First All-Women Spacewalk to Get His Facts Wrong](<https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/j5ykak/classic-trump-interrupts-first-all-women-spacewalk-to-get-his-facts-wrong>) \[*Vice*\]

**More on spacewalks:** [*NASA Announces World’s First All-Female Spacewalk*](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/nasa-worlds-first-all-female-spacewalk>)

## Author
I'm responsible for editing, assigning, and scouting at Futurism, as well as occasionally writing for the site. That work involves keeping an eye on a wide range of narratives and issues, but over the past few years I've become increasingly interested in how AI is shaping the future of media, the web, and information itself. My day-to-day often involves collaborating on reporting and commentary projects bylined by my colleagues, but I try to find time to do my own reporting as well; stories I've broken for Futurism have been cited by publications including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the New Yorker, Wired, Ars Technica, New York Magazine, the Columbia Journalism Review, Bloomberg, and more. I grew up in Southern Vermont and attended Vanderbilt University. Prior to Futurism, I contributed to outlets including the Boston Globe, Vice, Wired, Slate, the Atlantic, the Outline, Ars Technica and more, and did stints in farming and food service. I currently live in Brooklyn, New York, and in my free time I enjoy pinball, word games, cycling, running, and music production.

### Author social links  
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