Society must come together to “protect” and “cherish” Tesla CEO Elon Musk like the walking Fabergé egg that he is.
So insisted Donald Trump today during a freewheeling CNBC interview that covered everything from Trump’s best bud Tim Apple to how he’s pretty sure Zuckerberg wants to run for president. But it was Trump’s almost fatherly desire to coddle the Tesla CEO that perhaps most stood out.
“I was worried about [Musk] because he’s one of our great geniuses and we have to protect our geniuses,” Trump told interviewer Joe Kernen. “And we have to protect Thomas Edison, we have to protect all of these people that came up with originally the lightbulb, and the wheel, and all of these things.” Read more…
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