Trump calls Elon Musk 'modern-day Thomas Edison', presents him science medal

US President Donald Trump honoured Elon Musk with the National Medal of Science calling him a quotmodern-day Thomas Edisonquot quottitanquot quotgeniusquot and quotnational treasurequot Trump also awarded science medals to Sergey Brin Jensen Huang and Lisa Su while Satya Nadella and Michael Dell received technology medals