Posted on 01/22/2020 6:49:18 AM PST by Moonman62
President Donald Trump told CNBC on Wednesday that Elon Musk is one of the world’s “great geniuses,” he likened the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX to Thomas Edison.
Musk is “one of our great geniuses, and we have to protect our genius,” Trump said in an interview with “Squawk Box” co-host Joe Kernen from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
“You know, we have to protect Thomas Edison and we have to protect all of these people that came up with originally the light bulb and the wheel and all of these things. And he’s one of our very smart people and we want to cherish those people,” the president said.
“We have to protect our genius,” President Trump told CNBC’s Joe Kernen from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
Musk is “one of our very smart people, and we want to cherish those people,” Trump said.
The president said Musk is not only good at electric cars. “He does good at rockets, too, by the way. I never saw where the engines come down with no wings, no anything, and they’re landing.”
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Did Edison smoke dope?
Musk is a genius at bilking taxpayers of our money and getting government to happily go along with it.
Musk is good at getting other people to like him..............
No but he invented the phonograph, which goes well with it...............
I assume you’ve heard the joke...
If someone steals a Tesla, does it then become an ‘Edison’?
Do your companies accomplish more than Musk’s companies?
Do they employ more Americans than Musk’s companies?
Did taxpayers subsidize Edison?
MmmOkay....
The wheel?? Who was that, Og?
He’s a genuis, all right, Mr. President. A genius at picking taxpayers’ pockets.
Musk is good at getting other people to like him..............
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Did you see the in flight abort test the other day?
Will you be watching the fourth launch of Starlink satellites on Friday?
It’s comments like yours that make me realize that ideological Conservatives aren’t much better than ideological liberals.
The president is eliminating the gov’t subsidy for electric cars, wind mills, solar panels, etc...this was announced late last year.
Those subsidies, while wrong, do not take away from Musk’s accomplishments.
SpaceX being by far the most important. Tesla? Not so much. Other than providing him with excellent cash flow via the companies stock and the over priced fire starters on wheels that the libs love so much.
Are you people not aware of SpaceX? The guy is not just Tesla. He is a for real genius. Oddball, yes. Genius, too.
Some FReepers hate Musk so much they can’t stand any good news about him.
It reminds of the behavior of ideological liberals.
He didn’t inhale.
Edison was the better marketer and showman. Tesla was arguably the more brilliant of the two.
I don't fault Musk for pushing the electric car; he's capitalizing on a market trend, and making some innovations in doing so. I still think that at it's barest essence, the genius of Musk is geographically separating the smokestack from the coal powered car, and selling it as a clean alternative to fossil fuels.
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