For Elon Musk fans, it’s the half-trillion dollar bet. The stock market value of Tesla has surged by that much since Donald Trump’s election, and kept climbing last week even as the electric car maker reported disappointed financial results for last year.

Investors are wagering that Trump will help Musk’s company more than hurt it with his plans to take an axe to reams of regulations and wield tariffs to get his

Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox. The candor on the tarmac Sunday night at Joint Base Andrews, under the wing of the presidential aircraft, came without any flinch of self doubt.