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Probably pointless fact check for the non word salad part:
Elon has never landed anything on the moon.
Further context:
Elon has received roughly $3 billion of taxpayer money before 2022 (and another $1.7 billion in 2022) to create a system capable (Starship + Heavy Booster) of delivering and returning humans to and from the moon by Q1 2025.
It was supposed to have conducted an orbital flight test in early 2022, and so far has only accomplished a few semi-successful suborbital flights, which have prompted Elon to downgrade the supposed mass to orbit capacity in half, from 100 to 50 tons, (proven cargo capacity so far is 0, even for suborbital), and state that there will now be a Starship/Heavy Booster 2 and 3, entirely new and untested rockets which appear nowhere in any of the government funding agreements.
In orbit refueling has not been demonstrated, Starship has not returned from orbit or suborbit or the moon or anywhere other than small test hops without exploding on impact or melting in reentry...
...when it should have completed an uncrewed Moon landing and return about 8 or 9 months ago, and by now should be human rated.
... And this is the person Trump wants to be in charge of finding and eliminating wasteful government spending.
You can't fact check dementia
You can try, but the dementia will always win as it's a progressive disease with no cure.
Dementia is a syndrome, multiple symptoms correlated from diseases, like Alzheimer's...... nbd tho