Elon to the rescue.

[Rideback]

So now Trump is posting that he has asked Elon Musk to send up a rescue mission to get the stranded astronauts. One problem for wanna be hero Trump:

'The plan for SpaceX to retrieve Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore has been planned for months.
The ship they will ride home on, the SpaceX Dragon Crew-9 is, in fact, docked on-station at the ISS right now. It's been there since AUGUST OF LAST YEAR.
Due to safety protocols, the ISS doesn't detach the return ship until a new ship is docked -- so there's always a lifeboat on-station in case of emergency.
The new ship, SpaceX Crew-10, is scheduled to launch in March -- and has been since long before Trump took office.
Williams and Wilmore are not stranded. They were reassigned to the International Space Station's crew after problems developed with the Boeing Starliner Calypso and it had to return to earth un-crewed for safety reasons. They aren't stranded. They weren't abandoned by the Biden Administration. They are NASA astronauts currently assigned to the ISS. That's their job and they certainly aren't complaining about getting time on orbit. Astronauts fight for that opportunity.
Trump's statement is just so much taking credit for something already done. Just like his "I sent the military to turn on the water in California."
(Jim Wright)