Liam Denning is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering energy. A former banker, he edited the Wall Street Journal’s Heard on the Street column and wrote the Financial Times’s Lex column.

These are just some of the ways headlines and news stories described Trump's one-make EV summit at the White House on Tuesday evening, where the President of the United States took time out of whatever his schedule looks like these days to hype up Musk's car company.