Spaceship One came in for a total budget of about 30 million bucks. A shuttle launch, depending on how you count the beans, can run as high as 1.5 billion bucks...
I have been up close and personal with White Knight 2, and it is a very solid aircraft from a structural standpoint. All carbon fiber construction, very strong yet quite aeroelastic. Pretty ship!
The only things I can think of that fit the observed facts is that he really isn’t a citizen and is disqualified to be POTUS, or he is just stubborn and foolish enough to say “You can’t make me produce a thing, even if producing it is to my benefit.” Have I missed anything?