Trump on Elon Musk: ‘We Have to Protect Our Geniuses’

‘He’s one of our very smart people we want to cherish those people’

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KERNEN: "Tesla now worth more than GM and Ford, comments on that?"
TRUMP: "You’ve got to give him credit he also does rockets I said I’ve never seen that before I was worried about him because he’s one of our great geniuses we have to protect our geniuses. These people that came up with originally the light bulb, the wheel and all of these things. He’s one of our very smart people we want to cherish those people. He’s done a very good job. Shocking how well it has come so fast you go back a year and they were talking about the end of the company and now they are talking about these great things he’s going to be building a very big plant in the United States he has to. We helped him. He has to help us."

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