00:00First, we honor an industrial titan, a brilliant engineer and one of the greatest technology founders to ever live.
00:09His name is Elon Musk.
00:13Quite honestly, there's nobody like him.
00:17Few Americans in history have done more to advance America's national interest than Elon.
00:22In one field after another, his genius and determination have made science fiction into reality,
00:29and that is so true.
00:30Elon founded SpaceX with his life savings in 2002 and created the first privately developed liquid-fueled rocket
00:39to reach orbit in the face of vanishingly impossible odds.
00:45Nobody thought it was possible to do the things he's doing and in so many different ways.
00:50But it always works out well for Elon, right?
00:53We're proud of you.
00:55Very proud of you.
00:56National treasure.
00:57Through Neuralink, Elon is also restoring sight, speech, and motion to those who cannot see, talk, or move.
01:05And he turned SpaceX AI into one of the world's leaders in superintelligence.
01:12Elon is our modern-day Thomas Edison.
01:15And Elon, I want to congratulate you.
01:17You're my friend in all of that.
01:18But you are a very, very special guy.
01:21Thank you very much, and congratulations, Elon.
01:39Congratulations to all of our honorees, and thank you for your contributions.
01:42Let's give them one last round of applause.
01:44Thank you very much.
01:44Thank you.
01:45Thank you.
01:46Great.
01:51Thank you.
01:52Thank you.
01:55Grazie.
