You will have all seen the photographs, and perhaps the videos, of the sale of cars Tesla occurred to the House White. Donald Trump He bought himself a red, electric model, paid 80 thousand dollars with a check and not being able to guide him firsthand he will make him available to employees of the presidential residence. Of course: it was a “spot” to try to help the company of Elon Musk That, between duties, drop in value in the stock exchange and attacks on its stores and buyers, a good time is not going on. Yet few have underlined a fundamental step of that press conference.
The full video in English (but on YouTube You can select the subtitles in Italian, if you want) must be started from 6.00.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydsv4qzcabo
At that point, in fact, Trump confesses that he didn’t know very well Elon Musk Before he supported him with almost 300 million donations for his election campaign against Kamala Harris. “I don’t even know if it’s republican,” he joked. And in fact it was not (This afternoon we will show you another equally interesting video). Then the US president said: “Elon never asked me for anything. Never a favor (…) supported me and never asked for anything in return. “
The fundamental point, on which both agree, manufacturer of electric cars and president of the petrol vehicles, is a dear old principle that instead the “democrats” have fallen Under the blows of green ideology: the free market. That is, the freedom of choice. The point is not to be in favor or against the electric car, but be in favor of any car the buyer wants to buy. And this is what Musk and Trump reaffirmed in that sale in front of the White House. “It does not mean being for electric or petrol – he said The Donald To journalists – people can choose “. A lesson that Europe should also grasp, instead of insisting on the crazy electric obligations of 2035.