Trump says Elon Musk is like Thomas Edison: 'He's one of our great geniuses'
Source: CNBC
President Donald Trump told CNBC on Wednesday that Elon Musk is one of the worlds great geniuses, he likened the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX to Thomas Edison.
Musk is one of our great geniuses, and we have to protect our genius, Trump said in an interview with Squawk Box co-host Joe Kernen from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
You know, we have to protect Thomas Edison and we have to protect all of these people that came up with originally the light bulb and the wheel and all of these things. And hes one of our very smart people and we want to cherish those people, the president said.
In a 2008 interview, Musk said Edison and Nikola Tesla, for whom he named his electric auto company, were both role models, but he preferred Edison. Tesla, the scientist, was a rival of Edison.
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MontanaMama
(23,320 posts)Because then hed be really special.
Javaman
(62,530 posts)marble falls
(57,099 posts)MontanaMama
(23,320 posts)We're on the same team.
marble falls
(57,099 posts)Archae
(46,333 posts)He treated his employees like shit.
Exposing them to needless harm from radiation, even AFTER the harm of radiation had been established.
And taking credit for inventions his workers had created.
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,548 posts)Cross posted in the Lounge
Docreed2003
(16,862 posts)I don't know....um....Tesla????
OnlinePoker
(5,721 posts)AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)(Apologies in advance if I missed some sarcasm)
OnlinePoker
(5,721 posts)AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)I was hoping that was the case, and I was just being dense.
rsdsharp
(9,182 posts)He was born in South Africa and currently holds citizenship in three countries: South African, Canadian, and US.
So maybe he's 2/3 "foreign."
Yavin4
(35,441 posts)As in Musk is one of our White geniuses.
bullwinkle428
(20,629 posts)electrical engineering and physics. Proof that intelligence is not always hereditary...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_G._Trump
Backseat Driver
(4,392 posts)John Henry Patterson.
Cha-ching!
bucolic_frolic
(43,174 posts)a lot of alumni bro support from all institutions goes unnoticed
karynnj
(59,504 posts)Not to mention, what does he mean by "protecting"? Years ago, Arno Penias, Nobel prize winner, walked the halls of Bell Labs Murray Hill.
Aristus
(66,381 posts)I mean, companies around the world are producing generic, off-market wheels.
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)Freaking idiot ...
deurbano
(2,895 posts)AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)Clearly Thag is an American.
deurbano
(2,895 posts)SO much historical accuracy, and less reading comprehension required!
brush
(53,784 posts)Edison's lethal direct current.
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)AC 'won' because it travels distances along wires with significantly less loss of power due to friction. As well as being less dangerous, generally.
However, as I'm sure everyone knows, many, many things actually 'run' on DC power.
In the simplest sense, Power is created as DC, then we convert it to AC to carry it over distance, but then we convert it back to DC to use it, at least for many, many applications. Electronics in particular.
Really simple stuff like incandescent lightbulbs and ovens can run on AC directly (but that digital clock on your oven? that's running on DC), but a lot of things can't.
They kinda both 'won', IOW.
brush
(53,784 posts)jmowreader
(50,559 posts)You can make electricity with either a generator or an alternator.
A generator always makes DC power, which you can feed to an inverter to produce AC.
An alternator always makes AC power. You can turn it into DC with a rectifier.
samnsara
(17,622 posts)underpants
(182,826 posts)SoCalNative
(4,613 posts)than a shithouse rat.
captain jack
(316 posts)Getting the Trump bump is like getting pushed off the edge of the Grand Canyon.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,002 posts)Dukkha
(7,341 posts)and like Steve Jobs. They fund others to do all the work then take credit for everything as if it was their creation. I can see why the stable genius would admire that trait. Capitalists who stand on the shoulders of giants while trampling on the working class.
Kablooie
(18,634 posts)But without their drive to push technical developments, whether they thought them up themselves or not, many things we have today wouldn't have been developed and we'd be living in a different world. Their efforts did provide new standards of life for everyone in the world.
There are certainly reasons to criticize their flaws but their contributions to the world have to be acknowledged as well.
Sloumeau
(2,657 posts)[link:https://www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-musk-donations-republicans_n_5b4e4bd8e4b0b15aba897481|]
The billionaire climate hero has given nearly $90,000 to a party whose members largely dismiss climate science.
Billionaire tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, a man widely hailed as a world leader in the fight to combat climate change, has doled out nearly 7 times as much cash to Republican campaigns and political committees this election cycle as he has to Democratic ones.
Since the start of 2017, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX has personally contributed $88,900 to Republicans, while he gave those on the other side of the aisle $13,300, according to a HuffPost review of Federal Election Commission data.
How much of a "genius" Trump thinks you are often depends on how you spend your money.
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)Just in case someday you might throw some his way.
marble falls
(57,099 posts)truthisfreedom
(23,148 posts)But Musk backed out when he realized 45 is fucking out of his mind.
Calista241
(5,586 posts)The fact that Trump speaks so highly of him, leads me to believe we don't know all that there is to know here.
bucolic_frolic
(43,174 posts)What does Trump know about the wheel? When did he last hold a driver's license?
Tesla car bodies are an amalgamation of many parts. It's on YouTube. Not very efficient, and a bit expensive way of doing things.
Imagine if Edison had been Trump. Would we have light bulbs today? No. We'd be regressing, lighting with olive oil, Roman style.
The Roman Trumpius would not have have invented the wheel. The "wheel" would be triangular, and Trumpius would be selling billions of shock absorbers to smooth the ride.
No doubt Trump would have changed history at any point if he were there. All winners would be losers, and history would be the record of how losing ideas won to halt progress.
empedocles
(15,751 posts)Turbineguy
(37,337 posts)nearly as smart as trump then.
Politicub
(12,165 posts)We almost lost him at the Bowling Green massacre.
Initech
(100,079 posts)jmowreader
(50,559 posts)Initech
(100,079 posts)jmowreader
(50,559 posts)I say we let it be known the Swiss Navy supports Joe Biden and watch to see how long it takes Trump to denounce the Swiss Navy.
Hes such a dumbass hed believe the Swiss have a navy.
Initech
(100,079 posts)BHDem53
(1,061 posts)there aren't any wheels turning in his empty cranium. Or a lit light bulb, for that matter.
dustyscamp
(2,224 posts)Trump giving Musk praise gives him some cred with them
SCVDem
(5,103 posts)an elephant into space.
Edison sent one to the Great Beyond!
AC