Published 22:36 IST, January 23rd 2020

Must protect wheel's inventor, Elon Musk does good at rockets: Donald Trump arrives at WEF

While attending the 50th WEF at Davos, Donald Trump made yet another questionable statement about the need to protect the intellectual property of Americans.

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While attending 50th World Ecomic Forum at Davos, United States President Donald Trump made yet ar questionable statement about need to protect intellectual property of famous American inventors including person who invented wheels thousands of years ago.

In an interview with an international broadcaster, Trump was asked about what he made of success of Tesla CEO Elon Musk and its company. However, US President's reply made Internet laugh because wheel has long been in public domain and is t covered by any intellectual property laws.

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"Well, you have to give him credit,” Trump replied. “I spoke to him very recently, and he’s also doing rockets, he likes rockets, and, uh, he does good at rockets too… And I was worried about him because he’s one of our great geniuses, and we have to protect our geniuses. You kw, we have to protect Thomas Edison, and we have to protect all of se people that, uh, came up with, originally, light bulb and wheel, and all of se things.” 

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Trump's or statements at Davos

While his wheel statement rocked Internet, Trump addressed global political and business leaders on January 21 in Davos where he rejected warnings by climate activists and called m 'prophets of doom' in  keyte speech. As his impeachment trial opened in Senate, Trump attended World Ecomic Forum in Swiss Alps where climate change topped nda. However, a climate change sceptic, US leader said 'fear and doubt is t a good thought process'. 

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Despite concerns about increasing emissions of greenhouse gases that are responsible for drastic climate change, Trump praised US for producing world's largest amount of natural gas. What amused netizens more was when US President was asked about environmental issues, he replied saying, 'environment is very important to me'. Most of initial part of Trump's speech included him praising America on domestic ecomic policies. 

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22:36 IST, January 23rd 2020