Why America loves rockets

At his Madison Square Garden event a week before the election, Donald Trump went on an extended riff about the famous “chopstick” maneuver of Elon Musk’s Space X.

In describing his slack-jawed amazement at watching the feat -- the first stage of a Starship rocket returning to the launch tower upon coming back to Earth -- Trump spoke for all us.

The various videos of the operation that witnesses have…