VIDEO: President Trump Comments On Elon Musk's Genius And Drops A BOMB...Kind Of...

President Trump who once declared himself "a very stable genius," in one of his famous tweets, recently sat down with CNBC for an interview while in Davos for the World Economic Forum. Although the interview touched on many topics, at one point the interviewer asked the president's opinion on Tesla's Elon Musk.

The president was pretty concise, noting that Musk is "one of our great geniuses," and that the US must do what it can to protect him and other innovators like him. Whether you like Musk or not, he's a supplier of jobs and a driver of wealth via innovation.

You can't knock that.

But that's not really noteworthy. Most people are aware of what Musk's companies have achieved — or, in some cases, failed. Trump pointed out in the clip below that Musk is going to build a new factory in America.

This is a bit perplexing given Tesla's latest factory in Shanghai (Gigafactory 3) as well as the German facility (Gigafactory 4) currently underway. Is another Tesla factory to be built in the United States (Gigafactory 5)?

Given President Trump's comments, it's a bit difficult to know for sure given he follows it up with "..he has to because we help him, so he has to help us."

What do YOU make of this, Spies?



President Donald Trump sits down for an interview with CNBC's Joe Kernen from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

President Donald Trump told CNBC on Wednesday that Elon Musk is one of the world’s “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...

CANADIANCOMMENTS - 1/25/2020 5:21:36 PM

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Put zero faith in this statement. You can't believe anything Trump says in the moment when he is spitballing with a reporter. And I think it has been over a year since the White House press core has been given a briefing. Disinformation is the hallmark of this President and his Administration.

When Tesla says there is going to be a new plant in the USA then you can believe it.

MDarringer - 1/25/2020 5:36:12 PM

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We must only believe the half-breed racial token, the fake native American, or the pedophile.

Truthy - 1/26/2020 8:43:10 AM

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I take issue that tRump's comments were concise. He rambled on incoherently about the need to protect our geniuses like Einstein (dead) and the inventor of the wheel (also dead, and not American).
And CC is correct, trump has zero credibility. He claims he made companies move plants here when it had nothing to do with him.
He also lied about the 34 servicemen with brain injuries, first saying there were none and now saying it is just, "headaches." Thank God it was nothing serious like bone spurs.

Car4life1 - 1/26/2020 10:57:58 AM

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The big orange baboon is a bigger pussy than the one he grabs, still too cowardly to show his tax returns....WEAK

MDarringer - 1/26/2020 11:15:56 AM

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And the hypocrites snapped at the bait mindlessly.

I wanted to prove a point and you guys did it for me as i knew you would.

You guys bitch about this site being too political, yet it's your ilk that are masturbating through your words. #hypocrites

You guy bitch about how supposedly the Republicans are the majority of the political flow, but as with this post so it is with every post on Ausospies, the hateful Alt-Left are the ones spewing non-stop.

You guys bitch about a lack of respect, but you're the most disrespectful people here. I'm incapable of getting to your level.

And you should count yourselves lucky.

Truthy - 1/26/2020 1:01:12 PM

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I said nothing disrespectful. His comments were incoherent, not just my opinion.
He did lie about injuries to US soldiers then later minimized them as just headaches. This is especially offensive considering he avoided service with "bonespurs."
He also pardoned a war criminal saying "we need tough guys."
MD you and your friends hug get unhinged if any post stops short of calling tRump the greatest human being ever.
Read St.Paul's writings about 'triumphalism."

MDarringer - 1/26/2020 1:17:19 PM

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Oh really?

Disrespect: "...tRump's.." and you've said all sorts of hateful, disparaging things elsewhere.

Stop being a hypocrite and come out of the closet and admit your a bigoted, judgmental, Alt-Left hater because you's at least be honest for once.

Truthy - 1/26/2020 1:49:02 PM

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And you are correct, you are incapable of getting up to my level.

MDarringer - 1/26/2020 1:57:33 PM

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And I'm thankful not to be a hateful hypocrite like you, believe me.

Truthy - 1/26/2020 5:52:06 PM

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trump and MoscowMitch and their enablers in the Senate shared the constitution every day. You claim to be patriotic, but you cannot be if you support this incoherent demagogue.
And quit taking credit for setting up bait. You make outrageous, unsupported statements and take umbridge if anyone dare disagree and point out the truth.
Are you capable of responding without rage?

Truthy - 1/26/2020 5:53:26 PM

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...shred the constitution every day.

Car4life1 - 1/26/2020 8:55:56 PM

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LMAO MDarringer takes time out of his day to call every Post on a BLACK Athlete, celebrity, or public figure GHETTO, thug/gangster or any other racist stereotype he could think of, yet he also claims not to be hateful/hypocritical, keep that same energy you have for your beloved president for PEOPLE OF COLOR

MDarringer - 1/26/2020 10:08:48 PM

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And you did the straw-man logic fallacy as well as an ad-hominem attack. When people pull those rabbits out of their hat, they cannot prevail on facts and in so doing concede that their opponent is correct.

You have neither my brains or my education. #ByeFelicia

Car4life1 - 1/27/2020 12:53:24 AM

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Does this idiot even know what he’s saying anymore?

countguy - 1/25/2020 6:53:43 PM

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This impeached orange pedophile dotard is a moron.

MDarringer - 1/25/2020 8:07:45 PM

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You'll say "impeached orange pedophile" out of one side of your mouth and out the other bitch about how this site is politically hateful. #hypocrite.

runninglogan1 - 1/25/2020 7:05:15 PM

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Lol. He obviously pulled it out of his ass. Like most of the things he says.

countguy - 1/25/2020 7:55:37 PM

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Is donnie dotard going to discuss the recordings of himb at a dinner that just came out discussing black mailing Ukraine with our tax dollars.

MDarringer - 1/25/2020 8:04:30 PM

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You'll say "donnie dotard" out of one side of your mouth and out the other bitch about how this site is politically hateful. #hypocrite.

carloslassiter - 1/26/2020 8:00:11 AM

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That can't be a real Trump quote - it's gotta some kind of spoof from SNL to make him sound like a bumbling fool.

Agent00R - 1/26/2020 10:22:49 AM

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I have still yet to figure out Trump's speech cadence.

It's like this swirling hurricane coming at you...

Truthy - 1/26/2020 1:02:42 PM

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It is likely a combination of a serious of small strokes and alcohol. And if course limited education.

Truthy - 1/26/2020 8:44:19 AM

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Autospies must have had an autogasm today. Trump and tesla in one article?!?!!

MDarringer - 1/26/2020 10:15:04 AM

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More hatred from Truthy.

Agent00R - 1/26/2020 10:23:20 AM

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Yeah. It's what people are talking about.

Can't handle it?

Truthy - 1/26/2020 1:05:27 PM

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"It's what people are talking about." Really, mostly this site is about Tesla and tRump. You used to have multiple sources for articles. Now it is mostly just teslarati.com and any alt.right site.
What will you post next year at this time with president Bloomberg and a democratic congress?

MDarringer - 1/26/2020 1:39:25 PM

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To be fair, it's the hateful, bigoted Alt-Lefties that are perpetually talking about Trump, but they play the hypocrite card and profess not to want to get political.

Agent00R - 1/27/2020 1:11:40 AM

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CNBC is not alt right.

And my sources are varied, so, not sure what to tell you. Seems like you just want to create something out of nothing.

xjug1987a - 1/26/2020 9:07:59 AM

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Enjoy your hate, losers. Your side is a carnival of cowards none of which will win. We're loving all the winning!

DemoRats and Liberals are gutless cowards....

xjug1987a - 1/26/2020 9:28:37 AM

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Please tell Vladimir once I finish my last election, I'll have more flexiblity!

You didn't build that...

There is a line in the sand...."oops!"

If you like your Doctor you can keep your Doctor! - Barry Soetoro

What difference does it make?? - Hitlary

I said if you don't fire the prosecutor your not getting the billion dollars? I leave in 6 hours and if he's not fired, you don't get the billion.
And Sonofabitch, they fired the prosecutor - Quid Pro Sleepy Joe

I"m a Native American - Pocahontas Warren

We need total income redistribution - Socialist Millionaire Bernie Slanders with 3 houses and an Audi R8

Schiff, Kerry, Pelosi, Gavin Newsom, Cuomo, De Blasio, Dick Durban, Algore, Schumer, Blackface Northam, Charlie Trie-ClintStone Campaign "contributor", Pat Leahy, "The Kennedys", Ed Markey, I went to Vietman-Dick Blumenthal, I own a $3M sailboat am a Senator from Mass but berth it in RI so I can avoid the taxes
do as I say, not as I do-John Kerry, Cory Booker, Bob Menedez, Terry McAuliffe, Paul Begala, George StuffingEnvelopes, Jerry Fatso Nadler, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Maxine Waters, - The gutless parade of cowards goes on and on...

Truthy - 1/26/2020 1:06:52 PM

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Bone spurs is a true coward. "Ow, daddy my bone spurs hurt." "Those babies just have headaches."

Truthy - 1/26/2020 1:53:14 PM

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Did you read the interview? It is not disrespectful to say in was incoherent. It is not the first time his comments have been incoherent. He did say those soldiers just had headaches and should not be complaining.
Read St.Paul as I suggested above.

Truthy - 1/26/2020 2:06:25 PM

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Xjug, can you comment intellectually without frothing at the mouth and hurling insults?
You call Kerry a coward, yet he went to Vietnam when called. Mueller volunteered even though he had a deferment. He was in combat and won medals. Yet your hero, the true coward had "bone spurs." He also melts in face to face conflict as he did with Putin and Macron.
You misrepresented what happened in Ukraine. The US and our allies were frustrated with the former federal prosecutor who was corrupt and tied to the Kremlin. It was not just Biden. Nice try with the Infowars quotes.
Also, distribution of wealth is a technical term. It you look at economies historically, those with the skewed toward the top tend to fail eventually. The US distribution of wealth is now more heavily skewed toward the top than in 1929. You may not be aware of this, but that was right before the great depression. The Bush tax cut and trump tax cuts help the top one percent more than anyone else. Any tax cut is a redistribution of wealth.
See, fox news spreads the populist emotions without facts so you guys support these cuts and other programs that got our society.

MDarringer - 1/26/2020 2:41:51 PM

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"Xjug, can you comment intellectually without frothing at the mouth and hurling insults?"

Says the hypocrite who is perpetually frothing at the mouth and hurling insults.

xjug1987a - 1/26/2020 3:11:24 PM

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Hate all you want UnTruthy, there were zero errors in my post and anyone that defends that corrupt bunch of trash, is trash as well. Enjoy your hate and enjoy losing :-)

MDarringer - 1/26/2020 3:43:45 PM

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@xjug What I cannot fathom is why untruthy can't just choose to be a good person instead of being so hateful.

MDarringer - 1/26/2020 5:33:04 PM

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@xjug It looks like untruthy voted us down. Maybe his fragile feeling were hurt.

Truthy - 1/26/2020 5:58:02 PM

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Xjug and MD, trump is a coward. Where is all this winning? China agreement? Big fail as China won. Mid east? Big fail as trump surrendered our position and facilities to Russia. Trade? Big fail as the trade deficit has soared over 30 percent under trump.
The federal deficit has ballooned under trump.
Winning? How laughable.

MDarringer - 1/26/2020 7:19:12 PM

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Hey xjug, did you notice that the guy who says he NEVER gets histrionic and spews just did that, YET AGAIN. Notice too that he is of the "this site is too political" gang, yet he goes hard-core political the nanosecond that he can't take the heat. I think truthy has true psychotic tendencies. We must pray that Jesus Christ--everyone's Lord and Savior--with guide him to blissful pastures. I wonder if he is capable of discussing cars without saying "dotard" or "orange baboon" or "tRump" or...

#ProbablyNot

Truthy - 1/27/2020 4:07:22 PM

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MD, you are going to invoke prayer and JC? You are constantly name calling and acting out emotionally. You need to look inward first.

carloslassiter - 1/26/2020 9:41:10 AM

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What a minute - that WAS a real quote?

Agent00R - 1/26/2020 10:24:08 AM

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?

Did you watch the clip?

carloslassiter - 1/26/2020 10:33:50 AM

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I did. It was painful.

MDarringer - 1/26/2020 10:58:44 AM

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#4MoreYears

CarCrazedinCali - 1/26/2020 2:37:48 PM

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so many Trump trolls on autospies, so sad! Stop watching Faux people!

MDarringer - 1/26/2020 2:52:01 PM

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The so-called "Ttump trolls" are the Alt-Left hypocrites here who are constantly histrionic and disrespectful about Trump. The volume of words about Trump is 90% the lefties losing their shit paragraph after paragraph. And the discussion threads prove that categorically.

xjug1987a - 1/26/2020 3:12:52 PM

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Alt Left are Cowards... they're gutless and principless... they stand for nothing, certainly not the Constitution...

Truthy - 1/26/2020 6:00:17 PM

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Don't mention the constitution xjug. You know nothing about it. trump disregards the constitution every day.

Truthy - 1/27/2020 2:34:45 PM

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You trumpeteers keep saying everyone is losing their shit and frothing, etc. The only people I see constantly responding with anger, vitriol and name calling are MD and xjug.
To a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
Neither have ever presenting facts. See, an opinion or stating a position, is not a fact.
Saying for instance, that science does not support global warming is so factually inaccurate as to be laughable.
What science are you referring to? No reply.
Xjug says everything he says is a fact. Stating your belief that Kerry is a coward, is an opinion. Kerry won a combat medal. Trump claimed bone spurs. Who is the coward.

Truthy - 1/27/2020 4:05:28 PM

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trump deserves no respect.

carloslassiter - 1/27/2020 12:27:51 PM

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Trump called Musk a genius, so I assume everyone in here will now line up and accept this assessment.

Truthy - 1/27/2020 4:11:38 PM

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MD, you are going to invoke prayer and JC? You are constantly name calling and acting out emotionally. You need to look inward first.

MDarringer - 1/28/2020 8:11:48 AM

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Nice try, but you're a shrieking psycho.

countguy - 1/27/2020 4:14:31 PM

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Bolton just smacked donnie dotard with a dose of truth, destroyed his cover story lie and it is hilariously awesome. The orange circus is burning to the ground. Grab the marshmallows.

SanJoseDriver - 1/28/2020 4:46:28 AM

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@MD, you're a smart man. How the heck can you watch this clip and respect this person. I understand being a Republican, but this guy?

I watched the video a bunch of times, W.... T.... F.... How do we protect Thomas Edison? So many questions.

Also I don't believe any other Tesla plants are under construction, Giga Nevada will be expanded at some point.

MDarringer - 1/28/2020 8:15:22 AM

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The is not ONE Democrat that is better is the issue. Crooked Hillary, Biden the sex pervert, Buttboy Pete, Bernie the Jew hater, et. al. are all far worse than Trump morally. It's not that Trump is brilliant, but he is a battering ram against the truly despicable Alt-Left criminals and he will be re-elected by a landslide.

SanJoseDriver - 1/28/2020 11:23:10 PM

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I think I'm voting for Yang, not sure yet.

SuperCarEnthusiast - 1/28/2020 10:17:43 AM

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Surprise this was a straight interview with no diggs or inserted slanted narrations. Nice interview!