Instead of admitting "we can't really go to mars" or that there was ever a point any value to be achieved by that...
He'll just be all like, "hur-dur, I'll cut my own spending because 'merica!! ...And self-sacrifice!!"
And it will be used as an excuse to dip out on the con that was never going to happen anyway, but with positive spin.
**Elon is in quotes, because Elon is an op
(((Christopher Columbus)))
The guy who believed Earth was smaller than it is and therefore thought he landed in Indonesia, you mean? What about him?
I prefer Lief Ericsson.