From Birtherism to Senator Ted Cruz’s dad assassinating JFK,
is President Trump also a so-called “Moon Landing Hoax” believer?
By: Ringo Bones
Well, back in 2011, it seems that what Donald J. Trump is
best known for – beside his popular reality TV show The Apprentice – was his
belief on “Birtherism” – i.e. that the then US President Barack Obama was born
in Kenya, as opposed to the state of Hawaii which is a part of the United
States and that the NASA moon landings were a hoax and he also says that
Russian intelligence might have proof of this. Fast forward to July 20, 2019
when America recently celebrated the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo
moon landing, the now US President Donald J. Trump suddenly went “inexplicably”
quiet when it comes to the issue of whether the Apollo moon landings were a
hoax. Stranger still, in a recent poll, it seems as much as 25-percent of
Americans still believe that the moon landings were a hoax and 90-percent of
them are so-called Millennials – i.e. born after 1982 – who voted for Trump
back in 2016.
The origin of the idea of the so called “moon landing hoax”
dates back to 1974 where a self published book by Bill Kaysing titled “We Never
Went To The Moon” began selling in substantial numbers. Bill Kaysing’s aura of
believability stems from his experience working as a technical writer at
Rocketdyne during the 1950s – i.e. the company that made the Saturn V moon
rocket’s F1 rocket engines. If the “secret agents” of the then Soviet Union had
not manage to reveal any proof of the claim that the moon landings made by NASA
were a hoax during the late 1960s onwards, then why would any rational person
believe in the moon landing hoax conspiracy nonsense? If the Russians did then
Trump would probably got the proof from his buddy Vlad the Dictator before
2011.
