President-elect Donald Trump had high words of praise for Elon Musk and SpaceX during his election night victory speech.

In a speech broadcast on Tuesday night (Nov. 5), Trump recalled watching the most recent and fifth flight test of SpaceX’s Starship rocket as well as his conversations with SpaceX CEO Elon Musk about the use of the company’s Starlink satellites in North Carolina following the deadly impacts of Hurricane Helene.

“And I called Elon. I said, ‘Elon, was that you?’ He said, ‘Yes, it was.’ I said, ‘Who else can do that? Can Russia do it? ‘No.’ Can China do it?’ ‘No,” Trump said in the speech, recalling watching Starship’s most recent test in which the massive rocket was caught by the “chopstick” arms on SpaceX’s launch tower. “‘Can the United States do it, other than, you?’ ‘No, nobody can do that.’ I said, ‘That’s why I love you, Elon, that’s great.'”

Elon Musk and President-elect Donald Trump during a campaign event at the Butler Farm Show in Butler, Pennsylvania, US, on Saturday, Oct. 5, 2024. (Image credit: Justin Merriman/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Trump said he had to put a donor on hold for 45 minutes while watching the test flight, which he said he thought was a “Space Age movie or something.”



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