Trump awards Musk and other tech titans National Medals of Science
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Elon Musk, Google co-founder Sergey Brin, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, AMD CEO Lisa Su, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Dell founder Michael Dell gathered with Trump and a host of administration officials and scientific luminaries for the Science: A New Golden Age Summit at the U.S. Institute of Peace.
“We live in an age of American wonders and technological marvels, and with the help of the brilliant men and women here today, we will always be on top,” Trump said.
Trump awarded the National Medal of Science to Musk, Brin, Huang and Su. He awarded the National Medal of Technology and Innovation to Nadella and Dell.
Michael Kratsios, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, addresses the audience Thursday afternoon at the U.S. Institute of Peace. Jared Perlo / NBC News Trump presented each of the recipients with medals and certificates of honor, later asking some of their families to join him onstage to take photos.
“You’re going to go down in the annals of history as being great,” Trump told the recipients.
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The celebration took place just hours after Vice President JD Vance announced that the Trump administration would suspend Microsoft , whose CEO was a guest of honor at the event, and several other companies from a program that allows foreign workers to apply for green cards.
Trump awarded Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella the National Medal of Technology, one of the country’s highest honors for innovation. Win McNamee / Getty Several of the summit’s speakers emphasized the importance of immigrants to America’s scientific power.
“I was an immigrant, and my parents brought us here to pursue the American dream,” Huang told NBC News as he walked through the venue with his parents. “It’s an incredible honor and something that could only happen here in America.”
Carnegie Mellon University President Farnam Jahanian highlighted the importance of a welcoming immigration system in a conversation about the future of American research universities. Jahanian pointed out that China produces more engineers and scientists than the U.S., Europe and Japan put together.
“We need to have an immigration policy that can recruit the best talent to come to this country, speaking as an immigrant who has benefited from the opportunities this country has,” Jahanian said. “It’s important to recruit the best talent to come here so they stay here and contribute.”
The summit, an all-day affair meant to highlight the American scientific enterprise, built on a July report from Michael Kratsios, head of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, about how…
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