President Donald Trump said Friday he would consider a far-fetched proposal for Elon Musk’s Boring Company to build an undersea rail tunnel connecting Alaska and Russia — an idea pitched by an envoy for Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“I just heard about it — a tunnel from Russia to Alaska. I just heard about that one. That’s an interesting one. We’ll have to think about that,” Trump told reporters as he met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House.
Apparently out of the blue, a Russian investment envoy named Kirill Dmitriev suggested on X on Thursday that Elon Musk’s tunneling company build a link between the rival countries, with partial funding from Russia’s sovereign wealth fund. 4
The envoy wove in some flattery, saying the “70-mile link symbolizing uni