U.S. President Donald Trump and Elon Musk speak in the Oval Office before departing the White House in Washington in March.

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Susi Geiger is professor of markets, organizations and society at University College Dublin’s Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School.

It’s perhaps for the best that U.S. President Donald Trump and Tesla’s