You know he sent the rocket up two weeks ago and I saw that rocket and I saw it coming down. I saw it, it was, when it left, it was beautiful shiny white. When it came down, it didn’t look so pretty, it was going 10,000 miles an hour and it was burning like hell. I said ‘what happened to your paint job?’ He said, ‘we’ve never made a paint that could withstand that kind of heat’.

And, uh, but I saw it come down and turn around and it was, you know, it’s like 22 stories tall, by the way, it looks a little smaller than that, but it’s big and it came down and down and you saw that fire burning and and I said ‘only Elon can do this, it must be an Elon’.

And I tell the story, I told it last night. I had a man on the phone, I had the screen muted, no sound, I was talking to a very important man – happens to be here – and that very important guy, one of the most important people in I would say the country actually, but you know I was president and now it looks like I was going to be maybe president again.

So I figured I could ask him to hold, so I asked him to hold and because, especially because you’re going to be president again, they hold. So I took the phone down and I’m looking at the screen, I’m seeing this crazy thing that’s going around and coming down, it looks like it’s going to crash into the gantry. And I said ‘oh no’ and I said ‘do me a favor, do you mind holding for a couple of minutes? I want to see this’.

I thought it was a space age movie or something. I put the phone down – bad part, I didn’t pick it up for 45 minutes and he was holding. But this spaceship came down and I saw those engines firing and it looked like it was over. It was going to smash and then I saw the fire pour out from the left side and I put it straight and it came down so gently and then it wrapped those arms around it and it held it and just like you hold your baby at night, your little baby, and it was a beautiful thing to see.

And I called, told 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. 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.

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When you're a star they let you do it

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