Have you seen the fucking 'Murica ads before launch? They literally justified and propagated US Exceptionalism by name and talked about how all of this (which they were at least nice enough to mention was a collab with ~50 other countries) creates jobs in America.

It was a god damn propaganda show.

He, and the GOP controlled congress, successfully cut budget for NASA an laid of tons of its staff, and he also insisted on launching new moon missions which currently isn't even viable and Artemis II is nothing but a little airshow as they make a loop around in a big circle before returning.

This moon program is supposed to be a step of the future manned Mars program and started during Obama. So I guess this is an Obama rocket.

Then IIRC Trump wanted to skip to Mars, despite reducing NASA funding and causing leadership issues in the agency during his first term.

First of all, Trump's been talking about a return to the moon since his first term almost a decade ago.

Second, the rocket is one thing, the stated goals of the agency are another. They're declaring the plan is a permanent human presence on the moon.