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Some of the waste, fraud, and abuse that's being uncovered by Doge. | ||
And the people at Doge, these are young, often young, but super brilliant people, incredible computer scientists and other things. | ||
And they're finding levels of fraud and waste and abuse like I think nobody ever thought possible. | ||
President Trump praising the super brilliant people at Doge as the cost-cutting crew put Uncle Sam through a financial colonoscopy. | ||
Doge now estimates they've saved taxpayers $55 billion in counting. | ||
The brains behind the operation, Elon Musk and President Trump chatting with a man named Sean Hannity in an exclusive interview that airs tonight at 9 p.m., Musk noting how he went from a liberal saint to the Antichrist. | ||
I used to be adored by the left, you know. | ||
Less so these days. | ||
They call it, like, Trump derangement syndrome. | ||
And I didn't, you know, you don't realize how real this is until, like, it's, you can't reason with people. | ||
So, like, I was at a friend's birthday party in LA, just a birthday dinner. | ||
I have to mention the president's name. | ||
And it was like they got shot with a dart in the jugular that contained, like, methamphetamine and rabies. | ||
Okay? | ||
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And they're like, why? | |
And I'm like, what is wrong? | ||
Guys, like, you can't have, like, a normal conversation. | ||
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And it's like they've become completely irrational. | |
Proving Elon's point about methamphetamines and rabies, Democrats are still going after doge like a bunch of frothing animals. | ||
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Doge, I call the Department of Government inefficiencies, is causing a reign of terror, chaos across the federal government. | |
If it's an emperor Republicans want this President's Day, maybe it's about time they just say that and drop any and all pretense, because Donald Trump sure has. | ||
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DOGE and Elon Musk and his army of hackers pose a grave risk. | |
And there's such a difference, though, between perhaps trimming government, reshaping government. | ||
And dismantling government. | ||
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Nothing is secure right now, and the government is not being remade to be efficient. | |
This is an effort to destroy it. | ||
Those that want people to believe that you want retribution, that you will use the system of justice to go after your political race. | ||
Maybe smash a few things along the way? | ||
What's up? | ||
It's way past my bedtime. | ||
When do you guys go to bed? | ||
When do you go to bed? | ||
You gotta know. | ||
It's gonna be good. | ||
If I'm going live around 9pm, it's gonna be good. | ||
I will admit it. | ||
I am a dork. | ||
I'm a dad. | ||
I'm a father. | ||
They're all young little kids. | ||
They're all asleep upstairs. | ||
And yeah, this is just the way you roll. | ||
When you rise and grind, I'm up at 6 a.m. | ||
This is me. | ||
When do you wake up? | ||
When do you go to bed? | ||
Maybe you go to bed in a different time zone than me. | ||
I live in Florida. | ||
That's East Coast time. | ||
And tomorrow, we are going East Coast up to Washington, D.C. Ladies and gentlemen, Benny After Dark. | ||
That's exactly what it is. | ||
Benny After Dark. | ||
This is my handle on OnlyFans. | ||
Okay, here we go. | ||
Talk about OnlyFans. | ||
You got your boy excited right now. | ||
Yo! | ||
Cash Patel has crossed the threshold. | ||
We have some breaking news before we get to President Trump and Elon Musk's live interview. | ||
Here's what we're going to do tonight. | ||
We're going to watch the Elon Musk-Donald Trump live interview. | ||
That's going to be airing on Fox News. | ||
It's going to be on Sean Hannity's show. | ||
It's going to be live in approximately eight minutes. | ||
Got some news cover. | ||
And this was one I didn't want to miss because I've never seen anybody attacked more than Donald Trump. | ||
And Elon Musk is gaining that crown right now. | ||
It's genius. | ||
Think about this. | ||
Elon Musk is actually accepting the heat, the flames, the daggers, the darts from all of these screeching lizard people in Washington, D.C. It's Elon and Doge. | ||
And they don't know this play. | ||
They're playing whack-a-mole. | ||
They don't really know who to go after. | ||
They're flooding the zone so savagely. | ||
That they're just screeching and lashing out on this guy that they used to lick his boots. | ||
How he created the electric car. | ||
We love Elon. | ||
He's so great. | ||
Let's put him in SNL. | ||
Let's put him in... | ||
What was that nerdy sitcom? | ||
I can't remember. | ||
Now it's going to bother me. | ||
With all the nerds living together, you've got to help me out. | ||
Whatever. | ||
I'm checking the chat. | ||
What was it called? | ||
Elon Musk did a cameo on the Big Bang Theory. | ||
There you go. | ||
Big Bang Theory. | ||
Bazinga! | ||
Goodness gracious. | ||
What's the point? | ||
The point is that they used to love Elon Musk, much like they loved Trump. | ||
They lavished him with praise, much like they did this for Trump. | ||
And then when they started using that power to dismantle the deep state and the demonic state and these sick bastards, little play things. | ||
Ooh, man! | ||
Suddenly they're all screaming. | ||
So it's a delight to see the first buddies together inside of the White House. | ||
And they'll be in the White House live with Sean Hannity. | ||
Didn't want to miss it. | ||
Also, don't want to miss... | ||
Yeah, can you give me a... | ||
Can you give me like a... | ||
Yeah, Jack, can you grab me a screenshot of like the... | ||
Of the... | ||
I don't want to take crazy pills here. | ||
Screenshot of Elon Musk's Big Bang Theory cameo. | ||
I know I've seen it. | ||
I know I've seen it! | ||
I apologize. | ||
Again, I will openly admit, it's past my bedtime. | ||
Total nerd. | ||
Speaking of another total nerd, Kash Patel. | ||
Trump's pick Kash Patel finds out his fate in critical film. | ||
Ladies and gentlemen, Donald Trump's pick to lead the FBI passed a crucial hurdle on Tuesday evening. | ||
Just an hour and a half ago, Kash Patel, 44, got enough votes to advance his nomination to the floor of the Senate. | ||
This floor vote will most likely take place on Thursday. | ||
The final vote for Patel is expected later this week. | ||
As Trump shatters records on cabinet confirmation pace, Patel's nomination has caused drama as seven Democrats have denounced if it's a radical. | ||
Trump's choice to lead the Commerce Department, Howard Lutnick, also expected to be confirmed Tuesday. | ||
He has been confirmed. | ||
Lutnick's approval, Trump will have officially outpaced Obama 2009 and Biden 2021 with a total of 17 confirmations in just 30 days. | ||
Kash Patel moving. | ||
Out of a cloture vote, moving out of committee last week and then out of cloture vote. | ||
The Senate, Tuesday, voted to advance Kash Patel for the next director of the FBI. | ||
Bill Cassidy is one of those funny, kucky, holdout members of Congress who probably has a bunch of, like, compromising material on some laptops somewhere and the deep state goes and they use it as leverage over him. | ||
But anyway, he announced that he's going to be voting for Kash Patel. | ||
He was one of those holdouts. | ||
Right? | ||
It's Bill Cassidy, Louisiana. | ||
He's a senator. | ||
He's one of the holdouts. | ||
He said, tonight, on X, I'm done. | ||
I'm done. | ||
I'm going to do it. | ||
We're going to do it. | ||
We're just going to go. | ||
We're just going to go vote for Cash Patel. | ||
This is all because of us. | ||
Do you remember, ladies and gentlemen, Cash Patel was dead on arrival? | ||
Probably more than any singular other cabinet nominee, Cash Patel was a D-O-A. | ||
He was not going to pass. | ||
They were going to use all of the effort, all of the weaponry that they could possibly train on Kash Patel. | ||
This was the one person they were going to destroy. | ||
And now, according to all available data, numbers, trappings, Kash Patel, ladies and gentlemen, will be confirmed. | ||
And so we have just minutes before Elon and President Trump are live at the White House. | ||
So I did want to just jump right quickly in the archives here and show you why we need Cash Patel as FBI Director, Part of the reason why Jimmy Kimmel was crying last night on his program. | ||
But also, I believe that this is something that the American public desperately want. | ||
And most importantly, this is how you restore honor and how you restore trust. | ||
Now, many may not know, some will, that you are Personally responsible for the research on the Russiagate collusion. | ||
Everything we know about Russiagate, and we know maybe like less than half of what really happened with Russiagate, Kash Patel is the one who found it out with Devin Nunez. | ||
So, Kash, you have an excellent pedigree in rooting out the truth. | ||
Will we get the full ditty list? | ||
Will we get Epstein? | ||
Will we get JFK? | ||
Will we get the rest of what happened with Russia collusion? | ||
That's what I want. | ||
That's what I want as me as an American citizen. | ||
That's what I want in terms of achieving that restoration of respect for government in D.C. that's been gone for like 50, 60 years, right? | ||
I have said on the campaign trail when I was on the Team Trump bus store or surrogate somewhere, I said, America has a chance to retire the dynastic families that have rained down corruption in Washington, D.C. on November 5th. | ||
You could have retired the Bushes, the Cheneys, the Clintons, and the Obamas. | ||
And you know what, Benny? | ||
For the first time I get to say, They did. | ||
And part of that mandate that they deliver to Donald Trump is simply they want the truth. | ||
Yes. | ||
And I don't know why it has been, well, I do know why, but I believe and hope President Trump is going to go in there and just be a vehicle, a conveyor belt for the truth and just put it out nonstop. | ||
Agriculture department, education, labor, all of it, everywhere. | ||
And Congress is going to play such a critical role in these oversight investigations. | ||
Just think of what you can accomplish if you have a director or a secretary Who actually works with a Republican chairman or chairwoman on oversight. | ||
It's incredible, not just for corruption revelation purposes, but to see how we actually budget and stop lighting your money on fire. | ||
So it's like Kash Patel was able to predict perfectly the future. | ||
He says we're going to get the Diddy List, the Epstein List. | ||
He says he's going to stop protecting the pederasts inside of our federal government. | ||
And that we're going to see so much more. | ||
And this is an administration that, well, is done playing nice. | ||
This was moments ago at Mar-a-Lago. | ||
President Trump is currently with Mike Tyson, Michael Flynn, and Ted Nugent. | ||
And, well, I do my best. | ||
To not have a potty mouth on the program, okay? | ||
I do my best. | ||
I do have language of a sailor. | ||
I try my hardest to do a family-friendly show. | ||
So re-elect that MF-er is the hat that Mike Tyson is currently wearing at Marlock. | ||
They've ran out of Fs to give. | ||
Okay, ladies and gentlemen, it is now 9 p.m. | ||
We are going to be, producer Klein is going to be switching on over to our feed. | ||
When we get it... | ||
We're going to have Donald Trump. | ||
We are back in our nation's capital, Washington, D.C. In just a moment, we're going to take you inside the White House for an exclusive interview with the President of the United States, Donald Trump, alongside the left's newest boogeyman, the leader of Doge, Elon Musk. | ||
In less than a month, both President Trump and Elon Musk, they have taken a wrecking ball to the deep state, all while exposing a shocking amount of waste, fraud, abuse, corruption at the federal... | ||
level, but this is only the beginning. | ||
Brick by brick, dollar by dollar, penny by penny. | ||
The American people are taking their country back from the grips of what is an out of control bureaucracy and not a moment too soon. | ||
So without further ado, here's part one of my interview with President Trump and Elon I've got to start with this. | ||
So, he's working for free with Doge. | ||
He's kind of put a lot of his life on hold. | ||
You sued Twitter a number of years ago. | ||
You just made him pay you $10 million? | ||
That's right. | ||
I sued from long before he had it. | ||
They really did a number on me. | ||
I sued and they had to pay a $10 million settlement. | ||
You're okay with that? | ||
I left it up to the lawyers and the team running Twitter. | ||
I said, "You guys do what you think is right. | ||
It makes sense." I think it's fine. | ||
I think it's very low. | ||
I was looking to get much more money than that. | ||
So you gave him a discount on the lawsuit. | ||
Oh, he got a big discount. | ||
I don't think he even knows about it. | ||
He's become one of your... | ||
If you really didn't believe the media, he's become one of your best friends. | ||
He's working for free for you. | ||
Well, I love the president. | ||
I just want to be clear about that. | ||
You don't care about that. | ||
I know. | ||
I love the president. | ||
You love the president. | ||
I think President Trump is a good man. | ||
And he's, you know... | ||
It's nice the way he said that, you know? | ||
It really is. | ||
You know, because, I mean, the president's been so unfairly attacked in the media, it's really outrageous. | ||
And at this point, I've spent a lot of time with the president, and not once have I seen him do something that was mean or cruel or wrong. | ||
Not once. | ||
You know, I've known him for 30 years. | ||
Yeah. | ||
And... | ||
I've never seen anybody take as much as he's taken. | ||
Yeah. | ||
And we've discussed this, and I'm like, how do you deal with it? | ||
Did I have a choice? | ||
Well, you would say that to me. | ||
I'm like, what am I going to do? | ||
Worry about it? | ||
And, you know, and then culminating in two assassination attempts, which resulted in your endorsement. | ||
Well, I was going to do it anyway, but that was a precipitating event, yes. | ||
That speeded it up a little bit. | ||
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The day of the assassination. | ||
I didn't know that. | ||
Yeah. | ||
I just sped it up, but I was going to do it anyway. | ||
Mr. President, with your indulgence, I'm convinced that people only know a little bit about Elon. | ||
I don't think they know everything about Elon, because as I studied and prepared for this interview, I learned a lot about you that I didn't know. | ||
I think people will think about Tesla. | ||
Democrats are demonizing you and trying to make the country hate you. | ||
I just want people to understand you a little bit better, and the person that you've gotten to know and have now put a lot of trust in. | ||
And, you know, just let's go over a little bit of your bio, starting with PayPal and how you became involved in Tesla and SpaceX and Neuralink and all these. | ||
I mean, you know, I think the way you think of me is like I'm a technologist and I try to make technologies that improve the world and make life better. | ||
You can show your shirt. | ||
Yeah, and that's why I like my T-shirt says tech support, because I'm here to provide the president with technology support. | ||
Now, that may seem like, well, is that a silly thing? | ||
But actually, it's a very important thing, because the president will make these executive orders, which are very sensible and good for the country, but then they don't get implemented, you know? | ||
If you take, for example, all the funding for the migrant hotels, the president issued an executive order. | ||
Hey, we need to stop taking taxpayer money and paying for luxury hotels for illegal immigrants. | ||
Which makes no sense. | ||
Obviously, people do not want their tax dollars going to fund high-end hotels for illegals. | ||
And yet they were still doing that, even as late as last week. | ||
And so, you know, we went in there and we were like, this is... | ||
In violation of the presidential executive order, it needs to stop. | ||
So what we're doing here is one of the biggest functions of the Doge team is just making sure that the presidential executive orders are actually carried out. | ||
And I just want to point out, this is a very important thing because the president is the elected representative of the people. | ||
So he's representing the will of the people. | ||
And if the bureaucracy is fighting the will of the people... | ||
And preventing the president from implementing what the people want, then what we live in is a bureaucracy and not a democracy. | ||
You're both aware, you have to be keenly aware, that the media and the punditry class, not that, you know, I think you've proven they have no power anymore. | ||
Because they threw everything they had at you and they didn't win. | ||
And that was... | ||
You know, the New York Times, Washington Post, three networks, every late-night comedy show, two cable channels. | ||
They just threw everything. | ||
Lawfare, weaponization. | ||
And now I see they want you two to start... | ||
They want a divorce. | ||
They want you two to start hating each other. | ||
And they try... | ||
Oh, President Elon Musk, for example. | ||
You do know that they're doing that to you. | ||
Oh, I see it all the time. | ||
They tried it, then they stopped. | ||
They have many different things of hatred. | ||
Actually, Elon called me. | ||
He said, you know, they're trying to drive us apart. | ||
I said, absolutely. | ||
No, they said, we have breaking news. | ||
Donald Trump has ceded control of the presidency to Elon Musk. | ||
President Musk will be attending a cabinet meeting tonight at 8 o 'clock. | ||
And I say, it's just so obvious. | ||
They're so bad at it. | ||
I used to think they were good at it. | ||
They're actually bad at it. | ||
Because if they were good at it, I'd never be president. | ||
Because I think nobody in history has ever gotten more bad publicity than me. | ||
I could do the greatest things. | ||
I get 98% bad publicity. | ||
I could do outside of you and a few of your very good friends. | ||
It's like the craziest thing. | ||
But you know what I have learned, Elon? | ||
The people are smart. | ||
They get it. | ||
Yeah, they do, actually. | ||
They get it. | ||
They really see what's happening. | ||
Yes. | ||
And at the end of this interview, what I would like is I want people to know the relationship and know more about you. | ||
What is the relationship, Mr. President? | ||
Well, I respect him. | ||
I've always respected him. | ||
I never knew that he was right on certain things, and I'm usually pretty good at this stuff. | ||
He did Starlink. | ||
He did things that were so advanced and nobody knew what the hell they were. | ||
I can tell you, in North Carolina, they had no communication. | ||
They were wiped out. | ||
Those people were, you know, they had rivers in between. | ||
Land that never saw water, all of a sudden there was a river and vicious, like rapids. | ||
People were dying all over. | ||
They had no communication. | ||
They said, "Do you know Elon Musk?" They didn't really know I knew him. | ||
I said, "Yeah." He said, could you get Starlink? | ||
It's like the first time I ever heard of it. | ||
I said, what's Starlink? | ||
A communication system. | ||
That's unbelievable. | ||
I have it. | ||
Yeah. | ||
And he said, I called him and I said, listen, they really need it. | ||
And he got like thousands of units of this communication and it saved a lot of lives. | ||
He got it immediately and you can't get it. | ||
I mean, you have to wait a long time to get it. | ||
But he got it to him immediately, and I said, "That's pretty amazing," and I didn't even know he had it. | ||
We watched the rocket ships, and we watched Tesla. | ||
I think, you know, something that had an effect on me was when I saw the rocket ship come back and get grabbed, like you grab a beautiful little baby. | ||
You grab your baby. | ||
It just... | ||
Hug the rocket. | ||
I've never seen... | ||
Right, everyone needs a hug, including rockets. | ||
Yeah. | ||
No, but... | ||
And he said, you know, you can't only have a rocket program if you're going to dump a billion dollars into the ocean every time you fly. | ||
You have to save it. | ||
And he saved it. | ||
First time that I've ever seen that done. | ||
Now, nobody else can do it. | ||
If you look at the U.S., Russia, or China, they can't do it. | ||
And they won't be able to do it for a long time. | ||
He has the technology. | ||
So, you learn... | ||
I wanted somebody really smart to work with me in terms of the country. | ||
A very important aspect. | ||
I mean, he isn't talking about it. | ||
He's actually a very good businessman. | ||
And when he talks about the executive orders, and this is probably true for all presidents, you write an executive order and you think it's done. | ||
You send it out. | ||
It doesn't get done. | ||
It doesn't get implemented. | ||
They don't implement it. | ||
Maybe they're from the last administration, and they are in some cases. | ||
You try and get them out as fast as you can. | ||
But as soon as he said that, I said, you know, that's interesting. | ||
You write a beautiful executive and you sign it and you assume it's going to be done, but it's not. | ||
What he does is he takes it and with his hundred geniuses, he's got some very brilliant young people working for him that dress. | ||
Much worse than him, actually. | ||
They dress in just t-shirts. | ||
You wouldn't know they have 180 items. | ||
Wait a minute. | ||
He's your tech support. | ||
No, no, he is. | ||
But he's much more than that. | ||
I literally am tech support, though. | ||
But he gets it done. | ||
He's a leader. | ||
Yeah. | ||
He really is. | ||
He gets it done. | ||
You get a lot of tech people, and you have people, and they're good with tech, but he gets it done. | ||
You know, I said in real estate, you had guys that would draw beautiful renderings of a building, and they'd draw the rendering. | ||
It would be great. | ||
And you'd say, great. | ||
When are you starting? | ||
But they were never able to get it built. | ||
They couldn't get the financing. | ||
They couldn't get the approvals. | ||
It would never get done. | ||
And then you have other guys that are able to get it done. | ||
You know, they could just get it done. | ||
I was in real estate. | ||
Same thing in this. | ||
He gets it done. | ||
So when he said that, he said, you know, when you sign these executive orders, a lot of them don't get done. | ||
And maybe the most important ones. | ||
And he would take that executive order that I'd sign, and he would have those people go to whatever agency it was, "When are you doing it? | ||
Get it done! | ||
Get it done!" And some guy that maybe didn't want to do it, all of a sudden, he's signing. | ||
He just doesn't want to be bothered. | ||
Do a lot of those executive orders have to be codified into law? | ||
Do you need the Republican Congress to follow up? | ||
A lot of them will be, yeah. | ||
Look, in the meantime, we have four years. | ||
The beauty is, we have four years. | ||
That's why I like doing it right at the beginning. | ||
Because an executive order is great. | ||
I mean, the one problem is both good and bad. | ||
Because when they did all these executive orders, they've canceled most of them. | ||
They were terrible. | ||
I mean, we're going to go radical left communists, okay? | ||
It was crazy there. | ||
Executive orders were so bad. | ||
If they ever got them codified, you'd never be able to break them. | ||
So the damage that Biden has done to this country, and it's not even Biden, it's the people that circled him in the Oval Office, okay? | ||
But the damage they did to this country. | ||
In terms of, let's say, open borders, you know, there's so many things, but open borders, where millions of people poured into our country, and hundreds of thousands of those people are criminals. | ||
They're murderers, they're drug dealers, they're gang members, they're people from prisons from all over the world. | ||
And we have a great guy, Tom Holman, and he is doing so uncredibly. | ||
You saw the numbers, they're now 96%. | ||
95%. | ||
He is a phenomenal guy. | ||
And Kristi Noem is doing an unbelievable job. | ||
And he wanted her. | ||
He said, she's so tough. | ||
And I said, I don't think of her as that way. | ||
You know, she's very nice. | ||
He said, no, she's so tough. | ||
And she is. | ||
I see where the horse is. | ||
She's riding the horse. | ||
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She's great. | ||
But the team we have is really unbelievable. | ||
But those executive orders, I sign them. | ||
And now they get passed on to him and his group and other people. | ||
And they're all getting done. | ||
We're getting them done. | ||
Let me go back a little bit to your background, because it's beyond impressive. | ||
You were the chief engineer, for example. | ||
You were an early believer in Tesla. | ||
You became the CEO and then the chief engineer, which was phenomenal. | ||
SpaceX, same thing, which is unbelievable. | ||
I mean, you were the first company, private company, to send astronauts successfully into space. | ||
First private company. | ||
To send astronauts into orbit. | ||
That's pretty deep. | ||
He's going to go into orbit soon. | ||
No, he's going to go to Mars. | ||
Starlink? | ||
At some point. | ||
They were asking me, do you want to die on Mars? | ||
And I say, well, yes, but not on impact. | ||
Starlink is in 100 countries. | ||
This is going to be hard. | ||
I feel like I'm interviewing two brothers here. | ||
You go ahead. | ||
Star Shield, which could be used for national defense. | ||
Yeah, it has already been used for national defense. | ||
Then you have... | ||
What is it called? | ||
Optimus, a part of Tesla. | ||
A robotic arm. | ||
Then you have an AI arm. | ||
And then you have something that really fascinated me. | ||
And it's called Neuralink. | ||
Yes. | ||
You might help the blind to see, people with spinal cord injuries, that they can recover where in the past... | ||
How close is that becoming a success? | ||
Neuralink, we've implanted Neuralink in three patients so far who are quadriplegics, and it allows them to directly control their phone and computer just using their mind, just by thinking. | ||
So we call this product telepathy. | ||
So you control your computer and phone just by thinking. | ||
And it's possible to actually control the computer and phone faster than someone who has working hands. | ||
Then the next step would be to add a second Neuralink implant. | ||
Past the point where the neurons are damaged so that somebody can walk again and so they can have full body functionality restored. | ||
And you like Bobby, right? | ||
I like Bobby, actually, yeah. | ||
I think I supported Bobby Kennedy. | ||
I think he's unfairly aligned as someone who is anti-science, but I think he isn't. | ||
He just wants to question the science, which is the essence of the science. | ||
The scientific method, fundamentally, is about always questioning the science. | ||
Well, they didn't tell us the truth about COVID. | ||
That's for sure. | ||
Yes. | ||
And we learned a lot with the Twitter files. | ||
And that just then raises a question. | ||
You're the richest man in the world. | ||
You may not like that part. | ||
You're pretty competitive. | ||
I know you a long time. | ||
But he's on your team. | ||
Well, that's true. | ||
He can't top that. | ||
You know, I wanted to find somebody smarter than him. | ||
I searched all over. | ||
I just couldn't do it. | ||
I couldn't. | ||
You really tried hard. | ||
I couldn't find anyone smarter, right? | ||
So we had it for the country. | ||
But this is the thing. | ||
We settled on this. | ||
Well, thanks for having me. | ||
I'm just trying to be useful here. | ||
This is the interesting point. | ||
This is where we are as a society. | ||
And I hate to do this to you, but I'm going to do it anyway. | ||
You're doing all of these things. | ||
Nobody at Doge gets paid a penny, correct? | ||
Well, actually, some people are federal employees. | ||
They're helping. | ||
But it's fair to say that the software engineers at Doge could be earning millions of dollars a year instead of earning a small fraction of that as federal employees. | ||
Okay, so... | ||
And they're very committed people. | ||
So you're committed to helping the blind see people with spinal cord injuries recover. | ||
Yes. | ||
You're committed to getting to Mars. | ||
You're committed to rescue. | ||
You're going to help rescue next month two astronauts. | ||
That I think were abandoned. | ||
They dispute that in an interview. | ||
At the president's request or instruction, we are accelerating the return of the astronauts, which was postponed kind of to a ridiculous degree. | ||
They got left in space. | ||
They've been there. | ||
It was supposed to be there eight days. | ||
They're there almost 300. | ||
Biden. | ||
Yes, they were left up there for political reasons, which is not good. | ||
Okay, it's not good. | ||
Now, if I had the weight and the pressure, Of doing that successfully on my shoulders, I think I'd be, you know. | ||
But you, when we spoke before we did this interview, you are very confident you think this will be a successful mission. | ||
Well, we don't want to be complacent, but we have brought astronauts back from the space station many times before, and always with success. | ||
So, as long as we're not complacent. | ||
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When are they, when are you going to launch? | |
I think it's about four weeks to bring them back. | ||
About four weeks? | ||
Yeah. | ||
We're being extremely cautious. | ||
You now have the go-ahead. | ||
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They didn't have the go-ahead with Biden. | |
He was going to leave him in space. | ||
I think he was going to leave him in space. | ||
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He didn't want the publicity. | |
Can you believe it? | ||
Unbelievable. | ||
I want to echo something that the president said and then ask an overarching question. | ||
People get hit with Hurricane Helene. | ||
They have no communication with the outside world. | ||
You come to the rescue. | ||
You donated that, I believe? | ||
Yes. | ||
You donated to the people? | ||
He saved a lot of lives in North Carolina. | ||
He saved a lot of lives. | ||
And California after the wildfires? | ||
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California. | |
But, I mean, in North Carolina, where they were really in trouble, they had no communication. | ||
People were dying. | ||
They were dying of starvation. | ||
He saved a lot of lives in North Carolina. | ||
Okay. | ||
Now you're going to rescue astronauts. | ||
And again, you do all of this. | ||
I would think liberals would love the fact that you have the biggest electric vehicle company in the world. | ||
Yeah, I mean, I used to be adored by the left, you know. | ||
Not anymore. | ||
Less so these days. | ||
He killed that, huh? | ||
I mean, less so. | ||
I really didn't. | ||
I mean, this whole sort of, like, you know, they call it, like, Trump duration syndrome. | ||
And, you know, you don't realize how real this is until, like, it's... | ||
You can't reason with people. | ||
So, like, I was at a friend's birthday party in LA, just a birthday dinner, and it was, like, a nice, quiet dinner, and everything was, everyone was behaving normally, and I happened to mention, this was before the election, like, a month or two before, I happened to mention the president's name, and it was like they got shot with a dart in the jugular that contained, like, methamphetamine and rabies, okay? | ||
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And they're like, whaaaa! | |
And I'm like, what is wrong? | ||
Guys, like, you can't have, like, a normal conversation. | ||
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And it's like they become completely irrational. | |
He has no idea. | ||
If you're friends with him, you pay a price. | ||
It's like I walk into a restaurant in New York and it's like half the room gets daggers and they want to... | ||
No, the eye daggers level is insane. | ||
I mean, there was like some invitation. | ||
So I got invited to basically a big sort of damn event. | ||
But I received the invitation at the beginning of last year, and I still attended even after I endorsed President Trump. | ||
And I didn't realize how profoundly that would affect how it was received. | ||
I walk into the room and I'm getting just... | ||
The dirty looks from everyone, like, if looks could kill, I would have been dead several times over. | ||
But that was not... | ||
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Before Trump, that never happened, right? | |
No. | ||
All right, more of my interview from the White House. | ||
All right, ladies and gentlemen, the two of these guys deserve to be in a buddy comedy. | ||
Are you as entertained at this as I am? | ||
Okay, so we've gotten very little real news because of the way that Sean Hannity asks the question, which is like a 85-year-old woman in a hair salon with one of those giant bulbs on her head, okay? | ||
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And then, and then she's sad! | |
Where every question is actually a very long story about Sean Hannity. | ||
Whatever. | ||
No hate. | ||
Nothing but hate. | ||
I met Sean Hannity a couple of times. | ||
Super nice dude. | ||
Couldn't be nicer, alright? | ||
Not a hater. | ||
But there's a lot of news going on right now. | ||
Here's a good example. | ||
Doge has saved hundreds of billions of dollars from the federal government. | ||
And now Elon Musk is talking with President Trump about potentially giving the American people a piece of that money, a refund, the Doge dividend, a tax refund check to the Americans that they got from savings that Doge has created. | ||
We deserve a refund. | ||
The government has been stealing from us. | ||
Look at this. | ||
Here's the exchange here. | ||
James Fischbach, who's a good homie, know him, really smart financial mind. | ||
President Trump and Elon Musk announced Doge dividend tax refund check. | ||
Every taxpayer funded exclusively with a portion of the total savings delivered by Doge. | ||
So every American would get like five grand, eight grand, ten grand. | ||
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I don't know. | |
I don't know. | ||
I don't know exactly how they'd do it. | ||
Elon Musk saying, we'll check with the president. | ||
Ask about that, Sean! | ||
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Sean! | |
Ask about us all getting a piece of the billions of dollars of savings that Trump saved the government. | ||
You want to talk about winning in a 50-state landslide? | ||
This is how you do it. | ||
Okay, fine. | ||
Let me know, Chad. | ||
What would be the one state, even if they did this? | ||
Even if Trump did this? | ||
What would be the one state that was still vote blue? | ||
What is it? | ||
Is it Massachusetts? | ||
California? | ||
What do you think? | ||
Is it Rhode Island? | ||
What's the one state that would still vote blue? | ||
I'm talking about a 50-state landslide here. | ||
There's a lot of breaking news. | ||
There's a ton of breaking news, but... | ||
Oh, man. | ||
You guys... | ||
Let's go up to the top here. | ||
Look at this interaction between the two of these guys. | ||
Look at this interaction, and then... | ||
Klein, I had a... | ||
There's a clip that I want played. | ||
Which is the 916 clip of the two of them from Midnight Rider that I sent in. | ||
If we could load that, please. | ||
Because I want you guys to see this. | ||
Also, the production team did get me Elon Musk as a cameo on Big Bang Theory. | ||
This is a Big Bang Theory. | ||
This was a very popular show. | ||
And I wasn't lying to you. | ||
Elon Musk did have cameos in major Hollywood productions. | ||
The end. | ||
That's right. | ||
Elon Musk preparing for his job at Doge. | ||
Anyway, let's get to here. | ||
Sean Hannity starts off by saying, you sued Twitter and Musk had to pay you $10 million. | ||
Yes, before Elon took over, says Trump. | ||
But it was very low. | ||
He got a big discount. | ||
Musk, I just let the lawyers handle it. | ||
I love the president. | ||
He's a good man. | ||
Trump, that's nice. | ||
The way that he said that. | ||
These two dudes love each other. | ||
They just love each other. | ||
Spent a lot of time with the president. | ||
Not once have I seen him do anything mean or cruel. | ||
Not once, says Musk. | ||
It's like the buddy comedy. | ||
I'm here for it. | ||
I would watch this show. | ||
Just have this as a recurring show. | ||
Just have it as a recurring show. | ||
Again. | ||
I am not a hater, okay? | ||
It's like I'm not a hater. | ||
Of all the people, actually, to hate, I'm not a Sean Hannity hater. | ||
His style, okay, I'm telling you that you could just do a show without Sean Hannity. | ||
Just do this. | ||
Nobody needs to be asking questions or telling stories like they're in a hair salon. | ||
In Toledo, Ohio, just let these two guys talk because it's wildly entertaining. | ||
The thing that really jumped out at me is obviously the esprit de corps between these two guys. | ||
I want you to see here, and we can listen to it, but more importantly, I want you to see Trump's reaction here when Elon cracks a joke. | ||
And look at the way that Trump—look at Trump. | ||
You never see Trump smile like this. | ||
Look at this. | ||
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Look at this. | |
Look, look. | ||
When was the last time you saw a Trump smile like that? | ||
Are you serious right now? | ||
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Listen, listen, listen. | |
I would think liberals would love the fact that you have the biggest electric vehicle company in the world. | ||
Yeah, I mean, I used to be adored by the left, you know. | ||
Yeah, not anymore. | ||
Less so... | ||
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When was the last time you saw Trump smile like this? | |
Donald Trump roasting Elon Musk's fashion sense? | ||
Roasting the kids at Doge, right? | ||
Saying they dress worse than Elon. | ||
Saying Elon might die on Mars, but hopefully not on impact. | ||
And so on. | ||
Now, obviously, we have the full hour on Hannity's show, so we're waiting for the commercial break here. | ||
That's what's going on. | ||
We're waiting for the commercial break, and then we'll be back to the live interview, which is, again, wildly entertaining. | ||
Here's the biggest piece of news that is the takeaway for me, is that Doge is the enforcement arm for Donald Trump's executive orders. | ||
It's absolutely and totally genius. | ||
Who's holding responsible the executive orders and the implementation of them? | ||
You have to have... | ||
You have to have accountability. | ||
That's really smart. | ||
It's something that I didn't actually know. | ||
This is the million-dollar or billion-dollar among billionaires question. | ||
So you have all this going on, and you stop, in a way. | ||
You're still doing it. | ||
And you partner with him. | ||
And this is what you get from the Democrats. | ||
You get... | ||
Nobody voted for Elon. | ||
Well, nobody voted for any of your cabinet nominees. | ||
Okay. | ||
People are dying because of Doge cuts. | ||
I'll give you a chance to respond to all that. | ||
What Doge is doing is illegal. | ||
Elon Musk is a small street vernacular for a male body part. | ||
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It's a constitutional crisis. | |
Why are they reacting like this? | ||
Well, first of all, do you give a flying rip, number one? | ||
Well, I guess we must be over the target of doing something right. | ||
They wouldn't be complaining so much if we weren't doing something useful, I think. | ||
All we're really trying to do here is restore the will of the people through the president. | ||
And what we're finding is that there's an unelected bureaucracy. | ||
Speaking of unelected, there's a vast federal bureaucracy. | ||
That is implacably opposed to the president and the cabinet. | ||
And you look at, say, D.C. voting, it's 92% Kamala. | ||
Okay, so we're 92% Kamala. | ||
That's a lot. | ||
They don't like me here either. | ||
I think about that number a lot. | ||
I like 92%. | ||
That's basically almost everyone. | ||
And so, but if, but how can you, if the will of the president is not implemented, When the president is representative of the people, that means the will of the people is not being implemented. | ||
And that means we don't live in a democracy, we live in a bureaucracy. | ||
And so I think what we're seeing here is the sort of thrashing of the bureaucracy as we try to restore democracy and the will of the people. | ||
Is this making sense? | ||
No, of course it does. | ||
I mean, to me, if you look at our framers and our founders and... | ||
You've really become a student of history, Mr. President, and we've had conversations both on air and off air. | ||
And if we talk about constitutional order or transformational change, nobody can argue that what's happening here is going at the speed of light. | ||
But however, what were the principles of our framers and our founders? | ||
They wanted limited government, greater freedom for the people. | ||
And we'll get to the specific cutting away fraud and abuse. | ||
That is your goal, is it not? | ||
Yeah, and my goal was to get great people. | ||
And when you look at what this man has done, I mean, it was something... | ||
I knew him a little bit through the White House. | ||
Originally, I'd see him around a little bit. | ||
I didn't know him before that. | ||
And I respected what he did. | ||
And he fought hard. | ||
You know, he was maybe questioned for a while. | ||
He was... | ||
I mean, it's really amazing the things he's done. | ||
But I didn't know it as much then as now. | ||
I mean, the fruits have sort of taken hold. | ||
But I wanted great people. | ||
And he's a great person. | ||
He's an amazing person. | ||
He's also a caring person. | ||
You know, he uses the word care. | ||
So they signed a contract in a government agency, and it has three months, and the guy leaves that signed the contract, and nobody else is there, and they pay the contract for 10 years. | ||
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So the guy is getting checks for years and years and years, and he's telling his family, obviously, maybe it was crooked, maybe he paid to get the contract, or maybe he paid that they didn't terminate it. | ||
But, you know, we have contracts that go forever, and they've been going for years. | ||
And they're supposed to end in three months or five months or two years or something and they go forever. | ||
So the guy is either crooked, you know, where he knew this was going to happen, or he's crooked because he's getting payments that he knows he shouldn't be getting. | ||
But they're finding things like that. | ||
They're finding things far worse than that. | ||
And they're finding billions and will be hundreds of billions of dollars worth of fraud. | ||
I say waste and abuse. | ||
But fraud, waste and abuse. | ||
And he's doing an amazing job. | ||
And he attracts a young, very smart type of person. | ||
I call them high-IQ individuals. | ||
And they are. | ||
They're very high-IQ. | ||
And when they go in to see the people and talk to these people, you know, the people think they're going to pull it over. | ||
They don't. | ||
These guys are smart. | ||
And they love the country. | ||
You know, there's a certain something. | ||
But he uses the word care. | ||
So people have to care. | ||
When I bought Air Force One, I negotiated the price. | ||
It was $5.7 billion, and I got them down to $1.7 billion. | ||
Now, they're not building the plane fast enough. | ||
I mean, they're actually in default. | ||
Boeing, they're supposed to have been building this thing forever. | ||
I don't know what's going on. | ||
We don't build the way we used to build. | ||
We used to build like a ship a day, and now to build a ship is like a big deal. | ||
And we're going to get this country back on track. | ||
We can do it, but... | ||
So many things. | ||
It takes so long to get things built and get things done. | ||
And a lot of it could be something we've been discussing. | ||
The regulators go in and they make it impossible to build. | ||
They make it very difficult to build anything, whether it's a ship, a plane or a building or anything. | ||
And some of them do it because they want to show how important they are. | ||
Some of them do it maybe because they think they're right. | ||
They use the environment to stop. | ||
Progress and to stop things. | ||
It's always the environment. | ||
It's an environmental problem. | ||
It's not an environmental problem at all. | ||
But they do a lot of things. | ||
And by the way, speaking of that, Lee Zeldin is going to be fantastic in the position. | ||
He could take 10 years to approve or disapprove something, or he could do it in a month. | ||
You know, just as good. | ||
And I think you're going to see some fantastic, a fantastic job done by him. | ||
He's a tremendous guy. | ||
Newt, you echoed something when I just met you. | ||
And it was very similar to what Newt has been saying, that he brought this country to the dance. | ||
This is the opportunity to be transformational and to have, I would argue, the most consequential presidency if we really dig down and do something that had never been done before, and that is get rid of this bureaucracy. | ||
And I'm going to get to the specifics. | ||
You say the same thing. | ||
It's not done yet. | ||
What do you mean by that? | ||
I mean, winning the election is really the opportunity to fix the system. | ||
It is not fixing the system itself. | ||
So it's the opportunity to fix the system and to restore the power of democracy. | ||
And, you know, people, like, it's funny how often, when these attacks occur, the thing that they're accusing the administration of is what they are guilty of. | ||
They're saying that things are being done are unconstitutional. | ||
But what they are doing is unconstitutional. | ||
They are guilty of the crime of which they accuse us. | ||
That's always the first thing they do. | ||
He's in violation of the Constitution. | ||
They don't even know what they're talking about. | ||
It's absurd. | ||
It's just a con job. | ||
It's a big con job. | ||
And they're so bad for the country. | ||
So dangerous and so bad. | ||
And the media is so bad. | ||
When I watch MSNBC, which I don't watch much, but you have to watch The Enemy on occasion, the level of arrogance and cheating, they're just... | ||
Horrible people. | ||
These are horrible people. | ||
They tell conspiracy theories. | ||
And they start up with the Constitution. | ||
They couldn't care less about the Constitution. | ||
CNN, likewise. | ||
I mean, I watch them asking questions with, you know, the hatred. | ||
I said, why are you asking the question with such anger? | ||
You're asking me a normal question. | ||
But you see the bias. | ||
The bias is so incredible. | ||
Those two are bad. | ||
PBS is bad. | ||
AP is bad. | ||
CBS is terrible. | ||
I mean, CBS now, they changed an answer in Kamala. | ||
They asked her some questions. | ||
She answered them like, you know, a low IQ person, the opposite of him, the absolute opposite. | ||
But she gave a horrible answer. | ||
They took the entire answer out and they put another answer that she gave 20 minutes later into the... | ||
I've never even heard of that. | ||
I thought I heard of it all. | ||
I'm going to, just for the sake of saving time, because... | ||
I could spend, and I've done this on radio and TV, I can spend an hour finding the outrageous amounts of money being spent abroad like USAID. | ||
And I just want to mention a couple, but I'm going to scroll it. | ||
Well, I guess at a high level, I think it's what the president mentioned earlier, which is that in order to save taxpayer money, it comes down to two things, competence and caring. | ||
And when the president was shown the outrageous bill for the new Air Force One and then negotiated it down, if the president had not applied competence in caring, the price would have been 50% higher. | ||
Literally 50% higher. | ||
The president cared, the president was competent, the price was not 50% higher as a result. | ||
And so when you add more competence and caring, you get a better deal for the American people. | ||
But we could take... | ||
We were talking about this yesterday. | ||
I could take... | ||
Give me thousands of bills. | ||
I could pick any one of them. | ||
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But I could take all thousand. | ||
And let's say it's a bill for $5,000. | ||
Just $5,000. | ||
And it's done by some bureaucrat. | ||
And if he would say, I'll give you three. | ||
I don't want to pay you five. | ||
It's too high. | ||
I'll give you three. | ||
But they don't do that. | ||
If a guy sends in a bill for $5,000, they pay $5,000. | ||
They expect to be cut. | ||
Everybody expects to be cut. | ||
When you send in a bill, you expect to be cut. | ||
They send in the bill higher for the most part. | ||
This is true with lawyers, legal fees. | ||
When they send in legal fees, I can cut. | ||
I wish I had the time. | ||
I would save so. | ||
But I could cut these bills in half, much better than half. | ||
But you offer people a much lower number because you know... | ||
They actually put fat. | ||
I'm not even saying, it's like a way of business. | ||
They put more on because they expect to be negotiated. | ||
When you send in a bill to the government, there's nobody to negotiate. | ||
You send in a bill for $10,000 and they send you a check back for $10,000. | ||
If you would call them and say, we'll give you five. | ||
No, no, no, I need more than five. | ||
We'll give you five. | ||
I'm not going to pay any more than five. | ||
Make it six. | ||
No, I'm not going to make it six. | ||
And you'll settle for $5,500. | ||
You've just cut the bill almost in half. | ||
And it took, like, two minutes. | ||
But none of that's done. | ||
Someone pulled out the art of the deal? | ||
But that's caring. | ||
No, it's not even the art of the deal. | ||
It's caring. | ||
He uses the word, it's caring. | ||
It's a certain competence, but I think it's more caring than competence. | ||
Actually, if you add either ingredient, either competence or caring, you'll get a better outcome. | ||
But it's a sense of reason that if you don't have competence, you don't have caring, you're going to get a terrible deal. | ||
And the problem is that the American taxpayers have been getting a terrible deal, because look at the last administration. | ||
Can anyone, can any reasonable person say that the last administration was either competent or caring? | ||
But they lied to us and said that Joe didn't have a cognitive decline. | ||
They fully lied. | ||
They said the borders were closed. | ||
They said that the borders were secure. | ||
They said that, you know, they said Obamacare would save. | ||
They flat out lied. | ||
It was insane. | ||
Up next, more of my exclusive interview with President Trump and Elon Musk as Hannity continues. | ||
I, uh, I'm just sitting, I'm just sitting here. | ||
Doomscrolling the reactions online. | ||
Why not do it together, shall we? | ||
Let's just do it together. | ||
The reactions to this interview online are amazing. | ||
Including one of the Doge guys who just responded to me. | ||
Chris Stanley. | ||
Please, if we could grab that post. | ||
Chris Stanley on X. Showing his sweatshirt, saying, don't make fun of me for wearing a sweater to the job. | ||
So, there it is. | ||
Mr. President, I wear a hoodie. | ||
It's too cold for a t-shirt. | ||
Like this. | ||
There he is at the White House. | ||
This is one of the dozers. | ||
Okay. | ||
What we have is just clearly the first buddy system where these two guys are watching each other's backs. | ||
That's what we have. | ||
This is a situation where President Trump is using Doge as an enforcement arm. | ||
Here we go. | ||
Look at this. | ||
This was from earlier today, President Trump. | ||
Up with the receipts and the notes. | ||
Team Doge has uncovered that millions of people who are on Social Security rolls are no longer alive from 120 to 129-year-olds. | ||
There are 3.4 million. | ||
To 140-year-olds, there are 4 million. | ||
140, 250-year-olds, there are 3.5 million. | ||
Way to go if you're 150 years old and you're still getting Social Security. | ||
Way to go. | ||
You're like a Civil War veteran. | ||
You're like, tell me. | ||
These are Civil War veterans, okay? | ||
I would love to meet you. | ||
Tell me all about it. | ||
The 1860s. | ||
The Trump administration is ending waste, fraud, and abuse. | ||
The two guys are—these two have each other—they have each other's back. | ||
This is what I think is particularly important and particularly interesting about this specific interview, is that you're seeing the love between these two guys. | ||
They have—that Elon has Trump's back. | ||
Do we have that clip that was set in the chat of Elon doing his... | ||
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Do you understand how much Donald Trump must actually really like you to have you behave like this around him? | ||
Is Elon Musk doing it? | ||
The Godzilla? | ||
I'm not sure. | ||
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And I'm like, what is wrong? | ||
I'm like, what is wrong? | ||
*laughter* Thank you. | ||
Elon Musk is talking, obviously, about the demonic reaction. | ||
Which is a dart filled with methamphetamine that gets shot into the neck of every lip when you mention the name Donald Trump. | ||
They just love each other. | ||
That's it. | ||
That's all it is. | ||
Elon Musk posting that I love Donald Trump as much as I can love another straight man. | ||
As much as a straight man can love another straight man. | ||
And again, you have President Trump laughing. | ||
In a way that he just doesn't do with other people to Elon Musk showing off his tech support shirt. | ||
I don't mind dying on Mars as long as it's not on impact. | ||
I feel like I'm interviewing two brothers here. | ||
This is the stepbrothers. | ||
This is like a stepbrothers, like launch the stepbrothers memes, right? | ||
Elon said, President Trump gives praise to Tom Homan and Kristi Noem for mass deportations, saying that Kristi Noem's doing an unbelievable job. | ||
He didn't know Kristi Noem would be that tough. | ||
The numbers are down 96%. | ||
President Trump on the Doge dress code. | ||
Elon Musk has some very brilliant young people working for Doge that dress much worse than him, actually. | ||
They dress in just t-shirts. | ||
You wouldn't know they have 180 IQs. | ||
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I don't... | |
How can you possibly be against this? | ||
I don't know. | ||
And the value of this moment is in having somebody that actually watches the back of President Trump. | ||
We've said it before, and we'll say it again. | ||
We've said it a million times. | ||
This dude just did not have loyal people. | ||
He did not have loyal people the first time around. | ||
They were actually, all of them, doing their level-headed best to sabotage the president, to undermine him at every turn, to destroy the administration, to leak to the press. | ||
There's a message I was told. | ||
I'm not trying to put someone on blast. | ||
Oh, I'll have to... | ||
I'll have to tell you in a second. | ||
Okay, here we go. | ||
We are back, ladies and gentlemen, to this pre-recorded interview, but airing live right now at the White House of Donald Trump and Elon Musk. | ||
Anti-American propaganda. | ||
Those days are now over. | ||
More of my interview with President Trump and Elon Musk. | ||
As I scroll this information, and it's... | ||
I'll scroll a lot more than I'll mention to both of you, and this is the cost savings. | ||
I want people at home to understand this part. | ||
The average American makes $66,000 a year, okay? | ||
We have $37 trillion in national debt. | ||
Now, all the money I'm about to mention, and what we're going to scroll on our screen, All of this is going to foreign countries. | ||
It is not being spent here in America for better schools, law and order. | ||
I think the average taxpaying American should be mad as hell because their tax money is being currently spent. | ||
All right, let me go to the second question first. | ||
I want to know, because people like Joni Ernst and... | ||
Joni Ernst has tried for a long time, and she's actually got a lot of good data. | ||
Senator Ernst has been really helpful, actually. | ||
Okay, but they... | ||
They actually hide what the real purpose of the spending is. | ||
In other words, they... | ||
And this is a question. | ||
How did you decipher? | ||
It will say humanitarian blah, blah, blah in Serbia or Afghanistan. | ||
We've even given money to China for crying out loud, which I think is nuts. | ||
Well, give it to the Taliban. | ||
But money to the Taliban. | ||
Like a lot. | ||
I'm like, for what? | ||
I want to see pictures of what they did. | ||
But they tried to obscure it, but then you got to the bottom line, which is what I'm now scrolling on the screen, and that is... | ||
$20 million on a Sesame Street show in Iraq. | ||
$56 million to boost tourism in Tunisia and Egypt. | ||
$40 million to build schools in Jordan. | ||
$11 million to tell the Vietnamese to stop burning trash. | ||
$45 million for DEI scholarships in Burma. | ||
$520 million for consultant-driven ESG investments in Africa. | ||
DEI programs in Serbia. | ||
The president's favorite. | ||
I'm sure you'll love that taxpayer money was spent on a DEI musical in Ireland, or a transgender opera in Columbia, or a transgender comic book in Google. | ||
It sounds like, how can these things be real? | ||
But this is actually what we've done. | ||
It sounds like a comedy sketch or something. | ||
I have 20 pages in this. | ||
Right. | ||
It's not. | ||
It's a list of mile long. | ||
If you had to put a number on it, how much do you think you've identified waste, fraud, abuse, corruption at this point? | ||
And again, we're going to be scrolling this throughout the program. | ||
Well, the overall goal is to try to get a trillion dollars out of the deficit. | ||
And if the deficit is not brought under control, America will go bankrupt. | ||
This is a very important thing for people to understand. | ||
A country is no different from an individual, in that if an individual overspends, an individual can go bankrupt. | ||
And so can a country. | ||
And the massive waste, hoard, and abuse that has been going on, which is leading to a $2 trillion a year deficit, that's what the president was handed on Jan 20th, a $2 trillion deficit. | ||
It's insane. | ||
For this fiscal year? | ||
Yeah, we inherited it. | ||
And inflation is back. | ||
I'm only here for two and a half weeks. | ||
Inflation is back. | ||
No, think of it. | ||
Inflation's back. | ||
And they said, oh, Trump inflation. | ||
I had nothing to do with it. | ||
These people have run the country. | ||
They spent money like nobody's ever spent. | ||
They were given $9 trillion to throw out the window. | ||
$9 trillion. | ||
And they spent it on the Green News scam, I call it. | ||
It's the greatest scam in the history of the country. | ||
One of them. | ||
We have a lot of them, I guess, but one of them. | ||
Dollar-wise, probably. | ||
DEI and wokeism and transgenderism and LGBTQ+. | ||
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By the way, not in America. | ||
Other countries, not here. | ||
You know, the amazing thing is when you see, like, the teaching of DEI, $9 million. | ||
How do you spend $9 million to teach? | ||
No matter what it is, you could teach physics. | ||
You could go to MIT for a lot less. | ||
It's exactly expensive. | ||
The teaching of DEI. | ||
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How much do you believe, Elon, you've identified in waste, fraud, abuse, corruption now, and how much do you anticipate you will? | ||
Sure. | ||
1%. | ||
No, because it's so massive. | ||
This is huge money. | ||
So what we found out was 1%. | ||
As good as they are, they're not going to find some contract that was crooked as hell. | ||
I mean, there's going to be so much that isn't found. | ||
But what is that, I think he's going to find a trillion dollars. | ||
Yeah, I think so. | ||
But I think it's a very small percentage compared to what it is. | ||
Let me go to an area that I think is key. | ||
And you talked about this in recent interviews. | ||
And that is, we don't need a Department of Education. | ||
Okay. | ||
And what some people are trying to do is stoke fears. | ||
That, oh my gosh, my kid's not going to get the money for education. | ||
Or grandma's Social Security and Medicare. | ||
This was a big promise of yours on the campaign trail. | ||
So I really want to give you both an opportunity to assure the American people you will keep, that money will be allocated for students, but with higher standards, for example, I would assume associated with monies given or vouchers. | ||
So much, and then Elon goes, but look. | ||
Social Security won't be touched. | ||
Other than it's fraud or something, we're going to find it's going to be strengthened. | ||
But it won't be touched. | ||
Medicare, Medicaid, none of that stuff is going to be touched. | ||
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Nothing. | |
You don't have to. | ||
Now, if there are illegal migrants in the system, we're going to get them out of the system and all of that. | ||
Fraud. | ||
But it's not going to be touched. | ||
School. | ||
I want to bring school back to the states so that Iowa, Indiana, all these places, Idaho, New Hampshire. | ||
There's so many places. | ||
I figure 35 really run well. | ||
And right now it's Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, China. | ||
China, can you imagine? | ||
Has top schools. | ||
We're last. | ||
So they have a list of 40 countries. | ||
We're number 40. Usually we're 38, 39. The last time we were number 40. And what I say is you've got to give it back. | ||
So it doesn't work. | ||
I'll tell you what we're number one in. | ||
Cost per pupil. | ||
We spend more money than any other country by far. | ||
It's not even close. | ||
Per pupil. | ||
Okay. | ||
So we know it doesn't work. | ||
So we spend the most and we have the worst, right? | ||
The worst result. | ||
When we give that back to Indiana, when we give that back to Iowa and back to a lot of the states that run well, they run well. | ||
A lot of them, 35, 37, 38. Now, you're going to have 10 laggards, but you're going to have five real laggards. | ||
But that's going to be okay. | ||
Take New York. | ||
You give it to Westchester County. | ||
You give it to Suffolk County. | ||
You give it to upstate New York. | ||
And you give it to Manhattan. | ||
But you give it to four or five subsections. | ||
Same thing in California. | ||
Los Angeles is going to be a problem, but you're going to give it to places that... | ||
Run well. | ||
We can change education. | ||
Now, school choice is important, but that will get taken care of automatically. | ||
We want to bring education back to the states. | ||
You will spend half the numbers, and I'm not even doing this to save, but it will cost you much less money. | ||
You get a much better education. | ||
If you go to some of these states, you'll be the equivalent of Norway, Sweden. | ||
Denmark, places that really have a good school system. | ||
Those places will be the equivalent. | ||
And your overall numbers will get so much better. | ||
Do you want standards associated? | ||
The only thing I want to do from Washington, D.C. is make sure they're teaching English, reading, writing, and arithmetic. | ||
Science? | ||
Okay, a little science. | ||
Science might help. | ||
Computers. | ||
You're not going to have much of a problem with that, but that's it. | ||
So your task now... | ||
And I pray to God this is successful. | ||
I really do. | ||
I wish you Godspeed. | ||
Godspeed, John Glenn. | ||
It's going to be, by the way. | ||
I really believe it. | ||
But there are legitimate areas. | ||
Because the country is going to do well beside this. | ||
This is cutting. | ||
We're only talking about cutting. | ||
We're also going to make a lot of money. | ||
We're taking in so much money. | ||
What about his business? | ||
What if there is a contract he would otherwise get? | ||
We're not going to let him do it. | ||
He's got a conflict. | ||
I mean, look, he's in certain areas. | ||
I mean, I see this morning, I didn't know, but I said do the right thing, where they're cutting way back on the electric vehicle subsidies. | ||
They're cutting back. | ||
Not only cutting back. | ||
Correct. | ||
Yeah. | ||
Now, I won't tell you. | ||
Well, he's probably not that happy with it, but that would have been one thing he would have come to me and said, listen, you've got to do me a favor. | ||
This is crazy. | ||
But this was in the tax bill. | ||
They're cutting back on the subsidies. | ||
I didn't. | ||
I wasn't involved in it. | ||
I said, "Do what's right." And they're coming up with a tax, but it's just preliminary. | ||
But, I mean, if he were involved, wouldn't you think he'd probably do that? | ||
Now, maybe he does better if you cut back on the subsidies. | ||
Who knows? | ||
Because he figures he does think differently. | ||
He thinks he has a better product, and as long as he has a level playing field, he doesn't care what you do, which he's told me that. | ||
I mean, I haven't asked the president for anything ever. | ||
And if it comes up, how will you handle it? | ||
He won't be involved. | ||
Yeah, I'll recuse myself if it is. | ||
If there's a conflict, he won't be involved. | ||
I mean, I wouldn't want that, and he won't want it. | ||
Right, and also I'm getting sort of a daily proctology exam here. | ||
You know, it's not like I'll be getting away from something in the dead of night. | ||
Welcome to D.C. If you want a friend, get a dog. | ||
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Well, I do have a dog, but I also have friends. | |
My dog loves me. | ||
Poor little creature. | ||
I need to bring him to D.C. I know every businessman. | ||
I know the good ones, the bad ones, the smart ones, the lucky ones. | ||
I know him. | ||
He's a brilliant guy. | ||
He's a great guy. | ||
He's got tremendous imagination and scientific imagination. | ||
Far beyond. | ||
You keep talking about a technologist and all. | ||
But you're much more than a technologist. | ||
You are that. | ||
But he's also a good person. | ||
He's a very good person. | ||
And he wants to see the country do well. | ||
I know a lot of great business people, really great business people, but, you know, they're not really, in some cases, very good people. | ||
And I know people that would try and take advantage of the situation. | ||
This guy's somebody that really cares for the country, and I saw that very early on. | ||
I saw it really a long time ago when I got to know him. | ||
He's a very different kind of a character. | ||
That's why, you know who loves him? | ||
Young people that are very smart and that love the country. | ||
Up next, more from the White House as we continue from Washington, D.C. All right. | ||
Sean Hannity. | ||
Sean Hannity talking about his first buddy, Elon Musk. | ||
This is the clip. | ||
This is now going viral. | ||
This is the post that's going viral. | ||
This is now the new meme template right here. | ||
I am the president's tech support, Elon Musk says proudly. | ||
All right. | ||
Let's cover. | ||
The quick news here, there's only five minutes left in the actual show here on Fox, so I'd like to see how they wrap up this fun-loving, heartwarming buddy comedy of an interview. | ||
Doge wins massive victory after Judge slams Liberals' latest attempts to stop Trump's federal overhaul. | ||
And this is wild. | ||
Nobody expected this, least of which me. | ||
Judge Tanya Chutkin, who you may recall is the screechy, rabid, Trump-hating, sociopathic judge who has locked up untold hundreds of January 6th political prisoners, who was overseeing the Jack Smith cases against Donald Trump in Washington, D.C., who's just an absolute rabid psychopath. | ||
And she's crazy. | ||
She would, like, yell at Julie Kelly. | ||
She would yell at Trump's lawyers. | ||
Anyway, she ruled in a shocking order that liberals have no right to stop Elon Musk or any attempt of Elon Musk's to get data, to access government databases for the Department of Government Efficiency. | ||
The lawsuit against Doge was filed by 14 state's attorney generals in a coordinated effort to strip the first buddy of his power in his nascent department to gain access to swaths of sensitive data and multiple. | ||
While the U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkin found that there are legitimate questions about Musk's authority, he said that there's no evidence that any kind of grave legal harm would justify a temporary restraining order. | ||
The state's... | ||
The state attorneys general argued that Musk is wielding the kind of power that the Constitution says can only be wielded by those who are elected or confirmed by the Senate. | ||
This is such a dumb argument. | ||
Okay, so what you're saying, I mean, what you would effectively be doing there then is stopping the entire deep state, which is, of course, wielding all this great power over all of us without being elected ever. | ||
And staying in Washington forever as a permanent parasite. | ||
The Trump administration, for his part, has maintained that layoffs are coming from agency heads. | ||
As asserted, despite the public cheering of the effort, Musk isn't directly running Doge's day-to-day operations himself. | ||
Doge has been tapped into computer systems across multiple agencies as a blessing to Donald Trump digging into budgets and searching for what they call waste, fraud, and abuse. | ||
And the growing number of lawsuits allege Doge is violating the law. | ||
Chetkin, who was appointed by Barack Obama, recognized the concerns about the unprecedented actions of the groups. | ||
Doge's unprecedented actions have resulted in considerable uncertainty and confusion, she wrote. | ||
This is, of course, Chetkin. | ||
Chetkin said there are questions about Musk's apparent unchecked authority and lack of congressional oversight for Doge's legitimate... | ||
Still, at this point, it remains unclear exactly how Doge's work will affect the state. | ||
The judge can only issue court orders to block specific immediate harms, she found. | ||
Chetkin previously oversaw the now dismissed criminal election interference, Donald Trump, in Washington, D.C. The lawsuit was filed in federal court in Washington, D.C. last Thursday, accusing the billionaire of performing tasks. | ||
That should be well out of his remit. | ||
As part of the complaint, the group hoped Musk would be banned from accessing all sensitive information. | ||
Instead, they got slammed down, and the judge now says, actually ruled that Elon Musk has effectively, via the power of the presidency, unlimited access now to these records. | ||
There you go, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
Okay, so we are a minute before 10 p.m. here, and so you'd have to assume that we would have one final clip of Elon Musk and Donald Trump or maybe just Sean Hannity previewing part two. | ||
Not exactly certain. | ||
I don't make the calls. | ||
I don't make the rules. | ||
But this is what we await right now. | ||
Elon Musk, Donald Trump interview, that is the right way to say this. | ||
Not an enormous amount of news that's been broken. | ||
The point of this interview is effectively to put forward a united front to say that Donald Trump and Elon Musk, you're not going to break us up. | ||
You're not going to break apart this alliance. | ||
This is what this entire interview is staying, very muscularly and very authoritatively. | ||
Okay, here we go, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
Thank you to President Trump, Elon Musk, for sitting down, answering questions. | ||
And as always, thank you for being with us. | ||
Thank you for making this show possible. | ||
Please set your DVR so you never, ever, ever miss an episode of Hannity. | ||
In the meantime, let not your heart be troubled. | ||
Guess what? | ||
Greg Gutfeld is standing by to put a smile on your face. | ||
Have a great night. | ||
All right. | ||
Obviously big fans of Gutfeld. | ||
But we are... | ||
Extremely excited that this interview was done tonight. | ||
Why? | ||
Of course we're going to... | ||
You want this interview. | ||
The point of this interview is to say you're not going to break us up. | ||
The point of this interview is to say you're not going to rip apart Doge. | ||
You have the full authority and power of the president. | ||
You're not going to be able to use the same tactics. | ||
To destroy Donald Trump like you used the first time around. | ||
It's a message. | ||
It's sending a message to the lizard people. | ||
Trump orders the firing of all Biden-era top prosecutors to restore confidence in the DOJ. | ||
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Baby, Trump is cooking. | ||
Donald Trump ordered all Biden-era U.S. district attorneys be fired in an attempt to restore confidence in the Department of Justice. | ||
The surprise announcement came on Tuesday night after thousands of federal workers have already been facing layoffs, the president's effort to cut back taxpayer spending. | ||
Over the past four years, the Department of Justice has been politicized like never before. | ||
Therefore, I have instructed the termination of all remaining Biden-era U.S. attorneys. | ||
He demands that we must clean house immediately and restore confidence in America's golden age. | ||
We must have a fair justice system. | ||
And ladies and gentlemen, if you, again, this is way past my bedtime, but if you're on here, the werewolf stream. | ||
Ladies and gentlemen, you'll learn really quickly that we would never send you away without a smile. | ||
Again, you're like, 10 o 'clock? | ||
You might be watching this and be like, 10 o 'clock? | ||
It's really that late? | ||
It's such a complete and total weakling. | ||
But I have a bedtime. | ||
I always want to be able to bring the energy. | ||
I have a bedtime. | ||
I don't drink anymore. | ||
I don't have any fun. | ||
All I do is cover the news. | ||
That's it. | ||
All I do is cover the news and go see my kids for a couple hours a day. | ||
That's the era of life that I'm in. | ||
We run the company. | ||
We do the news. | ||
We obsess over this and these channels. | ||
And then we call it quits and go to bed. | ||
So this is an hour past my bedtime. | ||
If it's past your bedtime, we have one final little gift for you. | ||
It's the great Stephen Miller. | ||
Here, Collin, I've loaded the clip. | ||
It's the great Stephen Miller who is dispatching CNN Karen. | ||
CNN Karen, somebody named Brianna Keenler, decided that she was going to come for Stephen Miller, who is the Deputy Chief of Staff for the White House, and that she's going to effectively tell him... | ||
That the White House is being mean by arresting criminal aliens. | ||
And it just didn't go well. | ||
Okay? | ||
You want to see a fatality, ladies and gentlemen, broadcast on CNN. | ||
Here you go. | ||
This is us winning. | ||
President Trump standing in the United Front with Elon Musk is us winning. | ||
And we're not sick of winning. | ||
Okay? | ||
So, here we go. | ||
A great clip to send us off into the small, dark hours of the evening. | ||
Have an absolutely great one. | ||
Again, we will be traveling the rest of the week. | ||
A lot of exciting, exciting things happening. | ||
And we'll be here for you. | ||
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It's going to be a blast. | |
We've got a lot of cool stuff lined up in Washington, D.C. And so... | ||
You might be able to see us right here on that White House lawn very, very soon. | ||
Sign of things to come. | ||
All right. | ||
Have a great night. | ||
Thank you for watching along with us. | ||
Hearts love to the chat. | ||
Okay? | ||
See you in D.C. You mentioned yesterday, and you mentioned again here, illegal immigrants who are getting child tax credits. | ||
If... | ||
Are you looking for that information in the IRS data? | ||
Anytime a crime is committed, of course there should be an investigation. | ||
Is it your position that if somebody who is here criminally is stealing taxpayer dollars? | ||
The federal government will find every illegal alien who is stealing American taxpayer dollars. | ||
And that's what Americans expect to happen. | ||
Will you find that in the IRS data and share that with law enforcement? | ||
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I don't even fathom the premise of your question. | |
It's a simple question. | ||
Will you find that information in the IRS data and share that with law enforcement? | ||
If IRS investigators find illegal aliens stealing taxpayer money, of course it'll be referred to ICE. | ||
Of course it'll be referred to Homeland Security investigations. | ||
Of course it will be. | ||
Surely your position is not that we should let illegal aliens steal taxpayer dollars. | ||
You want to talk about something to be upset about? | ||
That's it! | ||
What do you think? | ||
The millions of illegal aliens who've also stolen Social Security. | ||
Illegal aliens, en masse, have fake Social Security numbers. | ||
They have fake identities. | ||
Those are felonies. | ||
Why should there be an entire class in this country that is immunized from criminal prosecution and arrest for committing felonies, felony theft of taxpayer information, felony theft of Social Security, felony theft of identity? | ||
These are all crimes. | ||
And yes, they will be investigated. | ||
Yes, they will be prosecuted. | ||
And yes, illegal aliens will be deported. | ||
And you know what happens when those deportations occur? | ||
Just very quickly, Stephen. | ||
Americans will get jobs. | ||
Americans will get benefits. | ||
Americans will get houses. | ||
Stephen, if they got a child... | ||
If they got a credit, a child tax credit, and they will be referred, you're saying to ICE for that, and you would expect deported for that? | ||
Is that the position of the administration? | ||
If it is found that a crime has been committed, they'll be referred. | ||
If it justifies the prosecution, they'll be prosecuted. | ||
If it justifies the deportation, they will be deported. | ||
This will be based on existing IRS protocols and procedures. | ||
For criminal investigation and fraud. | ||
The difference is that no one is given immunity anymore. | ||
No one is given permission to break the law. | ||
Those that want people to believe that you want retribution, that you will use the system of justice to go after your political race. | ||
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Maybe smash a few things along the way. | ||
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