President Donald Trump included a personal note of thanks for Elon Musk at his Monday cabinet meeting which was attended by the Tesla CEO — at a time protests against him wreaked a massive loss for his company Tesla.“Elon, I want to thank you, I know you’ve been through a lot with this. It’s very unfair. What he is is a patriot. He’s become a friend of mine. He’s never asked me for a thing. He could have. I always wonder if he’s ever going to ask me for something. But he’s never asked me for a thing,” Donald Trump said adding that he would let people know if Elon asks anything from him.
“I got rid of the electric car mandate. I have no idea how that affects him but possibly not good. I don’t know. He still never asked me for a thing. I think that’s an amazing attribute,” Trump said.
“I got activated when I saw what people were doing to him last week. He makes an incredible product and we wanted to get out there and tell people that you can’t do that stuff. They’ve got to support him. If he wasn’t doing this, he wouldn’t have had any of these difficulties,” Trump added as he thanked Attorney General Pam Bondi for vowing strong action against those who are setting Tesla vehicles on fire and are damaging Tesla properties.
“Pam Bondi is doing a great job with these investigations. When she finds them they’re going to suffer grave consequences because they’re terrorists. I think that the people that are financing them could very well be people that I know. Those people are in big trouble, so they better cut it out. But Elon is a patriot. We want to thank you for the job you’ve done,” Trump said.