{"id":63762,"date":"2025-08-06T23:45:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T23:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/63762\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T23:45:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T23:45:08","slug":"cbs-host-warns-trump-admin-plans-for-moon-base-could-usher-in-new-age-of-space-colonialism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/63762\/","title":{"rendered":"CBS host warns Trump admin plans for moon base could usher in new age of space colonialism"},"content":{"rendered":"

CBS News host Vladimir Duthiers questioned<\/a> the Trump administration\u2019s plan to establish a base on the moon and drew parallels to Earth\u2019s history of colonialism.<\/p>\n

On \u201cCBS Mornings Plus\u201d on Wednesday, Duthiers and co-host Adriana Diaz discussed the White House calling for more human space exploration and administration plans to build a nuclear reactor on the moon to precede an eventual U.S. lunar base with astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson.<\/p>\n

Diaz asked if it was \u201cinevitable that we\u2019re going to have to go to the moon and try to colonize the Moon?\u201d<\/p>\n

Tyson said that the United States is being \u201creactive\u201d in a race to the moon with China, and stated, to the laughter of the panel, that he does not want to \u201clive on the moon.\u201d<\/p>\n

But Duthiers questioned if colonizing the moon<\/a> was a good idea.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know how the age of colonialism worked on this planet,\u201d the host said. \u201cShould we be trying to colonize and saying that there\u2019s a keep-out zone that no other countries can participate in having?\u201d<\/p>\n

Tyson replied by pointing out that it would be difficult to colonize an area that does not have people.<\/p>\n

Duthiers questioned if it was a good idea to colonize the moon. CBS<\/p>\n

United States astronaut Buzz Aldrin salutes the American flag on the surface of the Moon after he and fellow astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first men to land on the Moon during the Apollo 11 space mission July 20, 1969. REUTERS<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, the \u2014 the real problem with the colonization history in Western civilization is that there were people already there,\u201d Tyson said.<\/p>\n

Duthiers and Diaz agreed, and Tyson added that \u201cthere are no moon beings that were displaced as far as we know.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tyson later criticized administration plans to decrease funding to NASA<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Tyson said that the moon would be difficult to colonize because no one lives there. CBS<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat\u2019s not on brand is to cut science programs, not only in NASA, but across the board, and then say, we want to excel in this one spot,\u201d Tyson said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, in the 1960s, science was a major investment profile of the United States,\u201d he continued. \u201cAnd by the way, it\u2019s not on brand even for Republicans, because Republican administrations since the Second World War have had a higher annual increase, average annual increase, in the science budget than even the Democrats.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSo Trump\u2019s decision to cut science is not on brand for even being a Republican,\u201d Tyson added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CBS News host Vladimir Duthiers questioned the Trump administration\u2019s plan to establish a base on the moon and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[991,12,10815,7042,47199,79,20444,193,47200],"class_list":{"0":"post-63762","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-cbs","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-media","11":"tag-moon","12":"tag-neil-degrasse-tyson","13":"tag-science","14":"tag-sean-duffy","15":"tag-space","16":"tag-vladimir-duthiers"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}