In a recent CNBC interview from the World Economic Forum
in Davos, Switzerland, Donald Trump praised such American inventors and
innovators as Elon Musk and Thomas Edison — and suggested that it was an American
who invented the wheel.
We have to protect Thomas Edison and we have to protect
all of these people that came up with originally the light bulb and the wheel
and all of these things, Trump told the interviewer, adding that Musk is one of our very
smart people. He’s also doing the
rockets. He likes rockets, Trump said. And he does good at rockets, too, by
the way. Trump added that Musk’s rocket
engines come down with no wings, no anything, and they’re landing.
What we know is that the wheel was likely invented around
3,500 B.C. - or approximately 5,500 years ago.
That is 52 centuries prior to the founding of this great nation. And as a consequence the wheel now resides in
the public domain and not covered by patent laws – here or anywhere else. Sadly, Donald Trump can do nothing to “protect”
this technology.
Seriously, you can’t possibly make this shit up.
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