🇺🇸 President Donald Trump praised Elon Musk as a "brilliant engineer" and one of the greatest technology founders in history.

"First, we honor an industrial titan, a brilliant engineer, and one of the greatest technology founders who ever lived. His name is Elon Musk. Honestly, there is no one like him.

Few Americans in history have done more to advance America's interests than Elon in one area after another. His genius and determination turned science fiction into reality, and it's so true. Elon founded SpaceX with his life savings and in 2002 created the first private rocket developed on liquid fuel to reach orbit against impossible and vanishing odds.

No one thought it was possible to do the things he does and in so many different ways. SpaceX saved NASA from relying on foreign countries to send our astronauts into space."