After World War 2, as Europe lay in ruins, the best scientists, researchers, and professors came to America, which led to innovations and inventions which benefited mankind, but America the most. Recognizing this the US government worked with these people, and universities to further the progress. America began to and still does lead the world in patents, medicines, technology, inventions, ingenuity. Surgeries, drugs, computer chips. It made us the envy of the world, and the wealthiest. Now. Trump is giving all this away by attacking all the institutions and avenues of science and discovery.