shaggybaxter said..
Macro,
He would unequivocally be the worst human alive to entrust with any major infrastructure project. He has the attention span of a gnat, he is the most uneducated president to ever hold the office, he has, as maxeaus already highlighted, a broken trail of bankrupt projects, he was forced to go to Russia after Deutcshe bank, not exactly a paragon of virtue, was the last commercial Western bank to refuse to lend him a cent more because he welches on every debt he's ever accrued, he only maintains his relevance by sowing discord and living by a divide and conquer mentality.
He will go down in history as the most incompetent western leader of all time.
How did you even relate Space X to Trump?
Never mind, PM me please! I have a bridge I want to sell you.
SB
Neither Elon Must or Donald Trump is any genius.But both somehow keep prominent position at this moment in history.
Elon Must ride on the back of thousand ingenious engineers from all over the world, that come to USA to work on rocketry over last 70 years.
He did pay a penny to acquire all this knowledge and years of experience, capture best engineers from NASA, ready to copycat engines from Russia ( the best in the world at the time).
Same with his electric car -invented more than century ago, but now reinvented and run on laptop batteries.
Tesla Roadster looks more like top quality hobby model car, then industrial achievements.
But somehow he captured the imagination of the masses.Wait few years till all car manufacturers start producing EV and that applause around Tesla will die quickly.
But at this moment in time, Elon has that power to build the only heavy lift reusable rocket in the world.At this moment in history,
Donald Trump is legally leading of the most powerful country and could direct with the flip of his finger river stream of billions of dollars going into waste or something meaningful. You could not change Donald by constantly criticising him, but you could touch this soft underbelly -EGO.
The fact is that USA has now potential to make Moon colony within 5 years from now.
World society may now convince Donald to do epochal achievement - build a colony on the Moon, otherwise, his dark side will listen to NRA advisors, the military campus will as for a trillion for new fighter jets and aircraft carriers, submarines, nukes etc. I could say this again firmly.
Regardless what nowadays society think about D.T. - the fact to build Moon and Mars's colony overwrite everything wrong you could say about him.
( Groping women's precious parts including will be forgiven and forgotten by history ).Can you imagine annotation in Wikipedia 2250 edition: Donald J. Trump. ..... president of USA that builds a first human colony on the Moon, Mars, and Mercury in an early twenty-first century. Later in his life incarcerated and burn on the at the stake for touching his female intern and allowing to perform sexual acts involving tongue ....( this part of Wikipedia will completely mix Trump and Clinton. I am sure that in XXIII century any sexual connection between individual of the same species will be totally prohibited and replace by cloning of the showbiz stars only).I