National Medal of Science

Trump returned to MIT and co-founded the High Voltage Engineering Corporation, which brought radiation cancer treatments to hospitals worldwide and became the world's leading supplier of research particle accelerators.

John Trump received the National Medal of Science for his life's work bringing the widespread beneficial application of ionizing radiation to medicine, industry, and atomic physics.

Posthumously presented by President Ronald Reagan to his son, John Trump devoted his life to pushing his country's science and technology forward.

Today, we honor those who do the same.

Trump returned to MIT and co-founded the High Voltage Engineering Corporation, which brought radiation cancer treatments to hospitals worldwide and became the world's leading supplier of research particle accelerators.

John Trump received the National Medal of Science for his life's work bringing the widespread beneficial application of ionizing radiation to medicine, industry, and atomic physics.

Posthumously presented by President Ronald Reagan to his son, John Trump devoted his life to pushing his country's science and technology forward.

Today, we honor those who do the same.

No mention that thirty-some years ago, Nadella himself once had an H-1B at Microsoft and earlier, a green card.

Yeah, at the same ceremony, Trump awarded the National Medal of Science to Elon Musk, Sergey Brin of Google, Lisa Su of chipmaker AMD, and Jensen Huang of Nvidia, all childhood immigrants to the United States, except Elon, who arrived as a college student under an exchange visa, which according to him, later became, you guessed it, an H-1B.

So Craig, back to Microsoft.

It's certainly not the first time this president has upstaged his vice president with a completely contradictory message.

And just back in June of 2025, Trump and Musk were engaged in a bitter public feud, exchanging accusations and threats.

But by October the 8th, 2026, Trump was presenting Musk with the National Medal of Science, calling him a friend and praising him as a national treasure.

And now Musk is publicly supporting Trump's criticism of Zelenskyy.

They went from public enemies to public allies in roughly 16 months.

Trump helped found the radiation laboratory hosted at MIT, the center of America's wartime radar effort, a program of a size and complexity rivaling the manhattan project trump led the lab's british branch and on d-day his radars jammed german defenses marked drop zones and guided bombers through cloud cover general carl spatz called trump's work one of the most important factors contributing to our success peace did not slow him trump returned to mit and co-founded the high voltage engineering corporation which brought radiation cancer treatments to hospitals worldwide and became the world's leading supplier of research particle accelerators.

John Trump received the National Medal of Science for his life's work bringing the widespread beneficial application of ionizing radiation to medicine, industry, and atomic physics.

Posthumously presented by President Ronald Reagan to his son, John Trump devoted his life to pushing his country's science and technology forward.

Today, we honor those who do the same.

So he brought Elon back into his orbit, and he was rewarded a Medal of National Science.

the National Medal of Science to Elon Musk of SpaceX for engineering achievements of extraordinary ambition and scale that have pushed the frontiers of space exploration, intelligent systems, communications, and beyond.

First, I want to say he created none of those companies.

None of them.

And I believe that's why the, uh, executive order has been employed in respect to his assets, not least of which is appe- apparently his wife.

But here's the funny thing, right? So they just had the science summit where Trump awarded Elon Musk a National Medal of Science at the White House, the same medal that was awarded to Tes- uh, sorry, John, John Trump, um, in the days by Reagan, right? And then at the same time, Sergey Brin, Google, or Alphabet, depending on if you look at the conglomerate, Jensen Huang from, uh, Nvidia, which is integral with the GPUs to AI blockchain and the coming quantum systems, and Lisa Su also received a science medal.

Who received the technology medal? Michael Dell [laughs] and Satya Nadella.

Satya Nadella is Microsoft.