Trump praises Elon Musk for SpaceX launch, forgets Musk is from a s**thole country

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Trump praises Elon Musk for SpaceX launch, forgets Musk is from a ‘s**thole country’
The president praised Musk's recent Falcon Heavy test-launch as "American ingenuity at its best."
Melanie Schmitz
Feb 7, 2018, 10:22 am


President Trump on Tuesday night tweeted his support for billionaire engineer and entrepreneur Elon Musk, whose aerospace company, SpaceX, had test-launched the Falcon Heavy lift rocket from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida earlier in the day. Trump claimed that the rocket, which is eventually intended to carry payloads of up to 70 tons into low-earth orbit, was proof of “American ingenuity at its best.”

“Congratulations @ElonMusk and @SpaceX on the successful #FalconHeavy launch,” Trump tweeted. “This achievement, along with @NASA’s commercial and international partners, continues to show American ingenuity at its best!”

Musk, of course, is not only an American innovator, but a South African immigrant who came to the United States in 1992. He obtained an H1-B visa shortly after graduating from the University of Pennsylvania and the Wharton School with degrees in physics and economics, respectively, allowing him to pursue his business aspirations in various energy and aerospace fields.

Both of those things might otherwise rankle Trump, who has expressed his desire to limit immigration from several African nations and whose administration is reportedly considering overhauling the H1-B visa program, which awards visas to highly skilled workers.

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