Trump cheers Gwynne Shotwell as Elon Musk’s SpaceX No. 2 gives $325 million in stock to Trump Accounts
Trump cheers Gwynne Shotwell as Elon Musk’s SpaceX No. 2 gives $325 million in stock to Trump Accounts
President Donald Trump praised SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell on Thursday after she and her husband announced an undisclosed SpaceX stock gift to Trump accounts that the president said amounted to $325 million.
“Thank you to the brilliant and highly respected Gwynne Shotwell, and her husband, Robert, for their extreme generosity in helping children to attain the ever magnificent American dream!” Trump wrote on Truth Social, calling it “Their Gift of 325 Million Dollars of SpaceX Stock.”
Shotwell did not put a number on her donation in her own announcement of the stock gift, but if Trump’s $325 million figure holds true, it would make Shotwell one of the most prominent individual supporters of Trump Accounts, a new type of individual retirement account for children, coming at the heels of tech........
