Neil DeGrasse Tyson Sparks Confusion After Posing With A Bunch Of MAGA Hats

Neil deGrasse Tyson has long been a pretty prolific poster on social media.

The famous astrophysicist regularly goes viral on X, especially when he puts in his two cents about anything pertaining to science. It is his specialty, after all!

And in recent months, he's been pretty outspoken with his feelings about the Trump administration.

For instance when he pointed out how many members of Trump's administration, his wife included, are immigrants, given the President's attacks on immigration.

He hasn't really shied away from criticizing Trump and his cabal. So his most recent post with a bunch of MAGA-adjacent hats left people really, really confused.

In the post, deGrasse Tyson shared a photo of himself holding four MAGA-like hats, each with a different slogan, along with the caption, "Decisions, decisions. Which hat to wear today?"

One hat was a regular MAGA hat, one said "Make America Smart Again," one said "Make Lying Wrong Again" and the fourth said "Relax, it's just a hat." (Hilarious.)

Judging from his prior comments about politics, we can extrapolate that this is just a way to ... make fun of MAGA hats? Or something?

But deGrasse Tyson's actual meaning was really unclear. Many seemed to wonder if this was a way of soft-launching his coming out as a MAGA devotee or something. (You never know with people these days.)

When deGrasse Tyson followed up his post with a weird poll about which hat he should wear, it only seemed to confuse people further.

Thankfully, deGrasse Tyson's post about the poll results seemed to mostly clear things up.

Along with the winning slogan, "Make Lying Wrong Again," deGrasse Tyson commented:

"While we can surely agree we want to Make America Great."

"To achieve that goal, looks like we need to Make America Smart."

"But first, we need to Make Lying Wrong Again."

Okay... sure.

Whatever the point of this little experiment was, people on X seemed really confused by the whole thing—if not outright angry.

So that's a thing that happened. But, at the very least, it generated one very funny misread.

So thanks, or something?