President Trump and tech billionaire Elon Musk sat for a joint interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity to defend the administration's massive federal overhaul and give some insights into friendship I gave it.
The interview is Trump's latest exhibition that put his mask in the spotlight after appearing in the oval office of Tesla's CEO last week, and he asked a few questions from reporters while the president sat at Resolute Desk. I did.
Hannity, who provided praise from both men during the interview, rated at one point, “I feel like I'm interviewing two siblings here.”
Here are four takeaways from the interview.
Masks respond to democratic attacks
Musk led the Trump administration's efforts to provide acquisitions to federal workers, find ways to reduce waste and fraud at agencies, and to condemn the bureaucracy of criticism, the pushback he faced Responded to.
“If bureaucracy is fighting people's will and hindering the president, if the president prevents people from doing what they want, then it's bureaucracy, not democracy, where we live,” Musk said. said.
Hannity has called Musk “slang for male body parts” by Democrats, including claims that Democrats are causing a constitutional crisis, and that Kuji is acting illegally. This criticism rattles against the musk.
“Why? Why are they reacting this way?” Musk said.
“All we're really trying to do here is to restore the will of the people through the president. And what we've found is that there's unelected bureaucracy. Speaking of which, there is a vast federal bureaucracy that ruthlessly opposes the president and the cabinet. And, if you look at the DC vote, for example, it's 92% Kamara,” Musk added, adding that former Vice President Harris, who said Washington. See that you won DC 92% in November.
Many federal workers also live around Virginia and Maryland, and Harris also won, but not so much.
SpaceX CEO also claimed that he defeated the Biden administration, failed to act in a competent or compassionate way, and that it lied to the American people.
“To save taxpayers money, it comes down to two things: ability and compassion,” Musk said.
“And the problem is that American taxpayers are seeing their last administration and are making a terrible deal,” he added.
Hannity replied, “But they lied to us and Joe said there was no cognitive decline.”
“They lied completely,” Musk replied, but added, “They lied, that's insane,” when raising Honity.
Trump praises Musk
Trump praised Musk throughout the interview, highlighting his successful technical career and his intelligence.
The president is a masked team Catch the rocket booster Instead of colliding with the ocean.
“The thing that affected me was when I saw the rocket ship return and be held. Every time you fly, you throw a billion dollars into the sea and you have to save it. And he saved that,” Trump said.
He added that Russia and China have nothing to rival the mask rocket program.
In the interview, the president also believed that it was a key key to implementing the dozens of executive orders Musk has signed since taking office.
“You write and sign a beautiful executive. I'll assume that it's going to happen, but it's not,” Trump said.
“He actually has a really great young man working for him who is dressed much worse than him,” Trump joked. “They're just wearing T-shirts. You wouldn't know they have 180 IQ,” the president said. “But he does it. He is the leader. He does it.”
Musk solidified Trump's support after Butler
Musk will support Trump in the 2024 election, but said in July that Trump's life-related assassination in Butler, Pennsylvania would expand that process.
“Well, I was going to do that anyway, but it was a sedimentation event,” Musk told Hannity.
“It speeded up a bit,” Trump said, and Musk agreed.
Trump replied, “I didn't know that.”
“It made it liven up, but we were trying to do it anyway,” Musk said. Musk supported Trump shortly after the assassination attempt, sharing his support for the then-GOP-nomination on his social platform X. It was time for Trump to stand up and raise his fist, with bloody ears after a shooting at an outdoor rally where he was being carried by the Secret Service.
Trump believes that masks will find a dollar in doge cuts
Trump said he believes Musk can find a $1 trillion cut in the federal government after Doge determined it had found $55 billion in savings last month.
“They're not going to find a bent contract like they do. You know you're bent like hell, and I'm going to be more than I can't find this But what do you think he's going to find $1 trillion,” Trump said.
“Yeah, I think so,” Musk agreed.
The tech billionaire said his goal is to “try to win $1 trillion from the deficit” and that he aims to pay off US debt.
“If the deficit is not under control, the US will go bankrupt. This is very important for people to understand. The country will go bankrupt if individuals are oversupplying, and the individuals will go bankrupt. It's not different from individuals in that they can do it, and there's been a state and massive waste, fraud, abuse that continues. That's insane,” Musk said.
The tech executive in early January said he would “try for $2 trillion,” adding, “I think it's kind of a great case outcome.”
