๐จ President Trump on Tesla:
โElon created Tesla, the first successful new car manufacturer in over 75 years, producing the first commercially viable electric cars with the first consumer self-driving technology.
And interestingly, when you mentioned Tesla, my uncle, Dr. John Trump, was commissioned by the United States government to do a report on Nikola Tesla. They wanted to know: was he real or not real? Was he a true genius or not?
My uncle, after a fairly short period of time, determined that he was a true and great genius and that he was real in every single way. Otherwise, you'd have to change the name of the car company. You wouldn't want to be a... See, now, if I did the report, Elon, I might say, โHe wasn't that good.โ But my uncle was a different kind of a person than I am.
And he gave Tesla the highest report. He said he was a true, great genius. So, very nice.โ