The billionaire, who was a big part of the campaign and who made himself billions of dollars richer as a result, wasn’t physically on stage, but he was a big part of the acceptance speech.
Trump praised the world’s richest man, calling him an “amazing guy” and a “new star” before launching into lengthy anecdotes about how he used his Starlink satellite Internet service to help North Carolina after Hurricane Helena and the capture of a Starship rocket booster.
“And he went down so gently and then he wrapped those arms around him. And he held him. And just like you hold your baby at night, your little baby,” Trump said.
“And it was nice to see, 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?’ ‘Not’. “Can China do it?”No. ‘Can the United States do it? Except you?’ ‘No, no one can do that’
“I said, ‘That’s why I love you, Elon.’