Trump: ‘A New Star Is Born, Elon’
EXCERPT:
TRUMP: “Oh, let me tell you, we have a new star. A star is born. Elon!
(Cheering and Applause)
No, he is. No, he's an amazing guy. We were sitting together tonight. We spent two weeks in Philadelphia and different parts of Pennsylvania campaigning. You know, he sent the rocket up two weeks ago, and I saw that rocket, I saw it coming down. When it left, it was beautiful, shiny, white. When it came down, it didn't look so pretty, it was going 10,000 miles an hour and it was burning like hell. I said, what happened to your paint job? He said, 'We never made a paint that could withstand that kind of heat.' But I saw it come down and turn around, and -- you know, it’s like 22 stories tall, by the way. It looks a little smaller than that, but it’s big. It came down and down. You saw that fire burning and I'm saying, 'Only Elon can do this. It must be Elon.' And I tell this story, I told it last night. I had a man on the phone, I had the screen muted, no sound. I was talking to a very important man, he happens to be here, a very important guy, one of the most important people, I would say in the country, actually. You know, I was president and now it looks like I was going to be maybe president again, so I asked him to hold. Especially because you're going to be president again, they hold. So I took the phone down, I’m looking at the screen, I'm seeing this crazy thing that looks like it’s going to crash into the gantry. I said, 'Oh, no!' I said, 'Do me a favor, do you mind holding for a couple of minutes? I want to see this.' I thought it was a space-age movie or something. I put the phone down, I didn’t pick it up for 45 minutes and he was holding. But the spaceship came down and I saw those engines firing and it looked like it was over, it was going to smash, and then I saw the fire pour out from the left side and it put it straight, and it came down so gently and then it wrapped those arms around it and it held it. Just like you hold your baby at night, your little baby.”
