{"id":70152,"date":"2026-07-02T09:12:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T13:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=70152"},"modified":"2026-07-03T05:57:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T09:57:05","slug":"why-is-the-president-of-the-united-states-who-just-compared-himself-to-genghis-khan-stalin-and-adolph-hitler-rejecting-his-own-unique-avenue-to-ultimate-immortality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=70152","title":{"rendered":"<h2><b><span style=\"color: #003366;\">Why is the President of the United States &#8212; Who Just Compared Himself to &#8220;Genghis Khan&#8230;Stalin&#8230;and Adolph Hitler&#8230;&#8221; &#8212; Rejecting His Own Unique Avenue to &#8220;Ultimate&#8221; IMMORTALITY?<\/span><\/b><\/h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><br \/>\nBy Richard C. Hoagland (*Author, in NASA&#8217;s official Apollo Program Press Book,<br \/>\nof &#8220;The Moon&#8221;; co-creator &#8212; with Carl Sagan, Eric Burgess\\and Frank Drake &#8212; of Earth&#8217;s &#8220;First Interstellar Message&#8221; &#8212; the Pioneer 10 Plaque &#8230;.)<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not as if Donald Trump has been shy about injecting his &#8220;Trump brand,&#8221; repeatedly, into major urban landscapes all across the 90&#8217;s and the world; he did so primarily by simply riveting &#8220;his name&#8221; &#8212; for over six decades &#8212; &#8220;onto skyscrapers\u00a0that he didn&#8217;t\u00a0build &#8230;&#8221; &#8212; now, even on the facade of a martyred predecessor&#8217;s monument &#8230;\u00a0the legendary &#8220;John Fitzgerald Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s SO&#8212;&#8220;Egyptian!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-70158\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-02-at-9.03.45-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"591\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-02-at-9.03.45-AM.png 591w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-02-at-9.03.45-AM-300x204.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 591px) 100vw, 591px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s what pharaoh (the Founders&#8217; &#8220;ancient Egyptian model&#8221; for &#8220;the American presidency&#8221; &#8230;) also\u00a0routinely used to do:<\/p>\n<p>Splashing their names all over earlier &#8220;monuments and temples,&#8221; seeking to literally transfer &#8220;the psychic and political energy of the prior, Old Regimes&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To Theirs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s what Trump &#8230; very obviously &#8230; is\u00a0trying to pull off, now&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>In 2026!<\/p>\n<p>Literally &#8212;\u00a0harvesting\/stealing &#8220;Kennedy&#8217;s &#8216;magical reserves&#8217; of decades of &#8216;accumulating public good will and collective psychic energy &#8230;'&#8221;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>And then directing it &#8230; as his own!<\/p>\n<p>But, of course, to plan, let alone carry out such an extraordinary &#8220;heist&#8221; &#8230; again, in the &#8220;scientific&#8221; 21st Century&#8230; you must first\u00a0believe\u00a0in the entire &#8220;absurd concept&#8221;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>That &#8220;psychic, transmissible energies &#8230;&#8221; are, in fact, REAL!<\/p>\n<p>Enter: &#8220;Hyperdimensional Physics&#8221; &#8230;.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Hi, I&#8217;m Richard Hoagland.<\/h3>\n<p>In 1969, as footnoted above, I was &#8220;selected&#8221; (I now believe,\u00a0deliberately ..) to write a Special &#8220;WHY We are Going&#8221; Section of the official &#8220;Apollo Program Press Book&#8221; &#8212; titled imaginatively &#8220;the Moon&#8221; &#8212; for NASA&#8217;s Prime LM Contractor (Grumman Aircraft Company).<\/p>\n<h5><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-70173\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-02-at-9.32.49-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"639\" height=\"784\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-02-at-9.32.49-AM.png 639w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-02-at-9.32.49-AM-245x300.png 245w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 639px) 100vw, 639px\" \/>Source:\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Apollo-Spacecraft-Command-Service-Reference\/dp\/1937684997\/ref=pd_lpo_d_sccl_1\/137-4439861-1534118?pd_rd_w=WmvAp&amp;content-id=amzn1.sym.4c8c52db-06f8-4e42-8e56-912796f2ea6c&amp;pf_rd_p=4c8c52db-06f8-4e42-8e56-912796f2ea6c&amp;pf_rd_r=RGV1P6NFVDEP1K75SJKJ&amp;pd_rd_wg=DERRH&amp;pd_rd_r=b47fdeee-8f79-432d-ad27-33d0cb066659&amp;pd_rd_i=1937684997&amp;psc=1#\"><span class=\"a-size-large product-title-word-break\">NASA Apollo Spacecraft Command and Service Module News Reference<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Grumman&#8217;s bid for APOLLO had been accepted by NASA years before my &#8220;invitation&#8221;; a massive government contract to &#8220;design and build the &#8216;first, true space vehicle'&#8221; (it had NO streamlining!) &#8212; that could physically transport US astronauts down to the surface of the Moon &#8212; to be called the &#8220;lunar module&#8221;(LM); I was being deliberately &#8220;invited into the club&#8221;(why not Sagan?!) &#8230; and asked to write the &#8220;Big Pictures Reasons &#8230;&#8221; for WHY we were going to the\u00a0Moon &#8230; besides&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To beat the Russians.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-70161\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-02-at-9.11.36-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"601\" height=\"754\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-02-at-9.11.36-AM.png 601w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-02-at-9.11.36-AM-239x300.png 239w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 601px) 100vw, 601px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Grumman press book, besides my own dedicated &#8220;Moon Chapter,&#8221; contained &#8220;every other scrap of obscure engineering detail and technical break-down on Grumman&#8217;s &#8216;development, assembly and testing program for this unprecedented vehicle'&#8221;; I can&#8217;t count how many times I would see Walter Cronkite &#8212; sitting by the pool before a launch &#8212; painstakingly going through these &#8220;voluminous Apollo Mission notebooks&#8221; (NASA&#8217;s two other &#8220;prime contractors&#8221; &#8212; North American Rockwell and Boeing &#8212; published similar spacecraft and booster details).<\/p>\n<p>But Grumman&#8217;s &#8220;lunar module&#8221; was\u00a0THE &#8220;crucial-half&#8221; of the Apollo Program &#8212; designed, with unprecedented engineering,\u00a0specifically to allow humans to land &#8220;where no one had landed before &#8230;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And RETURN.<\/p>\n<p>In the late 1960&#8217;s, if this &#8220;one-of-a-kind,&#8221;\u00a0first real spaceship &#8212; the Lunar Module &#8212; didn&#8217;t work &#8230; NO American (or, anyone else!) was going to physically explore the legendary &#8220;mysteries of the Moon,&#8221; OR&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Beat the Russians.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the big thing that seemed to be everyone&#8217;s basic reaction to Apollo at the time (remember, I was there\u00a0&#8230;)&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;BEAT the Russians!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Certainly, everyone around me at CBS (I had, in fact, just been hired to be Walter&#8217;s official &#8220;science advisor&#8221; on Apollo) was focused on &#8220;the Race.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I was alone\u00a0(literally!) as the guy at CBS who was pursuing the &#8220;MUCH Bigger Picture&#8221; of Apollo &#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>On &#8212; the INEVITABILITY of &#8220;stunning scientific discoveries&#8221; we would be making someday &#8230; with &#8220;routine human access&#8221; to the Moon; and, the &#8220;robber-baron&#8221; space industries that would INEVITABLY be &#8220;born,&#8221; at a REAL &#8220;moon base&#8221; Americans (hopefully soon &#8230;) would one day establish on the Moon &#8230;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>All stemming from these &#8220;historic first Apollo explorations&#8221; I was being asked to forever &#8220;immortalize&#8221; &#8230; &#8212; in NASA&#8217;s OFFICIAL &#8220;Apollo Program&#8221; lunar press book &#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Space Industries&#8221; &#8212; which, with the Trump Administration&#8217;s sudden decision to establish a bona fide &#8220;2001-type MOON BASE&#8221; at the lunar South Pole (!) &#8212; brings what I was trying to describe &#8230; 58 years BEFORE&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Full Circle.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s NASA Administrator, Jared Isaacman, announced just a few days ago NASA&#8217;s stunning New Plan to &#8220;build a NASA moon base on the Moon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What Isaacman presented looks a LOT like &#8220;Hoagland&#8217;s Moon-base\u00a0&#8230; published officially by NASA in 1969&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Decades BEFORE Donald Trump would (VERY quietly) give the &#8220;go ahead&#8221; to actually BUILD &#8220;what Hoagland wrote about &#8230; ~60 years before &#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>No pressure &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I was 24.<\/p>\n<p>I have little doubt all these decades later, that my &#8220;improbable NASA selection&#8221; was part of a &#8220;much larger&#8221; Plan (Jung called such &#8220;life-changing events&#8221; &#8212; synchronicities &#8230;), likely involving Arthur Clarke; a &#8220;NASA selection&#8221; that would later, strategically, place me in a unique position to have &#8220;first-hand access&#8221; to NASA&#8217;s entire, voluminous Apollo data base and image Archives&#8221; &#8212; including, the literally &#8220;tens of thousands of in-situ astronaut lunar photographs&#8221; taken ON the Moon.<\/p>\n<p>Having, after 60 years, examined almost ALL these priceless images &#8212; from all six Apollo missions &#8212; I have NO SCIENTIFIC DOUBT that humans &#8220;DID physically go to the Moon&#8221; &#8230; beginning in 1968.<\/p>\n<p>And there, the Apollo astronauts personally SAW (and, were then &#8220;medically assisted,&#8221; for decades, to forget!) the &#8220;Impossible&#8221;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;ET ruins &#8230; on the Moon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ruins and LIVE cities that the crew of &#8220;Artemis II&#8221; also HAD to see, just &#8220;a few weeks ago!!&#8221; &#8230; and, through their amazing Farside PHOTOGRAPHS, have now&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>OVERWHELMINGLY CONFIRMED!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-70159\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-02-at-9.09.48-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"522\" height=\"173\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-02-at-9.09.48-AM.png 522w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-02-at-9.09.48-AM-300x99.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 522px) 100vw, 522px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Including&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Glowing, living CITIES&#8221; &#8212; photographed THOUSANDS of times during their &#8220;hour in eclipse,&#8221; with &#8220;hand-held telescopes and ~$10,000-dollar cameras&#8221; &#8212; by the four 21st-Century &#8220;discoverers&#8221; &#8230; gazing across a &#8220;mere 5000 miles&#8221; &#8230; at a shockingly &#8220;lit up&#8221; lunar night Farside!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-70376\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-03-at-5.55.20-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"601\" height=\"255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-03-at-5.55.20-AM.png 601w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-03-at-5.55.20-AM-300x127.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 601px) 100vw, 601px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Neighbors&#8221; &#8230; on the Moon!<\/p>\n<p>And, President Donald Trump &#8212; who loves to talk about EVERYTHING, including ALL new developments at NASA these days &#8212; TOTALLY silent &#8230; on ANY of this &#8230; since April!<\/p>\n<p>The one thing that would GUARANTEE his &#8220;historical supremacy&#8221; &#8230; over ALL other presidents, if not ALL histories&#8217; preceding &#8220;rulers&#8221; &#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Trump would OWN history &#8212; as we flatly predicted in our &#8220;Presidential Briefing Video,&#8221; hand-delivered to the White House (well, electronically) in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>So &#8230; why is Donald Trump REJECTING the &#8220;immortality&#8221; he&#8217;s always LONGED FOR &#8230; that History (and Enterprise) has now dropped directly in his lap!?<\/p>\n<p>Shouldn&#8217;t &#8220;somebody&#8221; &#8230; call Rogan?<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned &#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70152"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70378,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70152\/revisions\/70378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}