If you took the state funding out of Space X how much money do they make?
Sure, but you are talking about being the leader in an industry that has historically been the profitless province of state sponsored exploration, scientific discovery, with supplementing industrial functions as a value-add. It is not a given what value there actually is in being the leader in this field.
Here is how you can tell:
Is what Trump said somehow reasonable and something you might actually agree with?
Then its fake.
He said this, but it was about a person that didn’t hurt anyone.
To be clear they have “the other guy is shooting moms in the face on national television” and they went with this instead.
That 18 billion in revenue already results in an operating loss of 4 billion a year. So its a little odd to hear you act like “only” losing another 13% is insignificant since it would increase their loss by about 30%.
Also, that is assuming that all launches cost the same, which is probably not the case at all. The NASA launches are likely considerably more costly than Starlink launches.