Trump honours Elon Musk with science medal, calls him ‘modern-day Thomas Edison’

US President Donald Trump honoured Elon Musk with the National Medal of Science on October 8, praising his work in technology and space exploration.
Trump called the Tesla and SpaceX CEO a “national treasure” and a “modern-day Thomas Edison” during the awards ceremony in Washington.
Google co-founder Sergey Brin, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and AMD CEO Lisa Su also received the National Medal of Science.

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