Ted D. is a comedian, writer, and podcaster. He has been in the entertainment business for a long time and is a frequent guest on Comedy Central and other media outlets. He is also the author of the best-selling book, "The Secret Life of Billionaire Elon Musk" and has been a regular contributor to the New York Times, CNN, NPR, and other publications. Ted has also been a frequent contributor on CNN and other news outlets.
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00:07:42.000A lot of people are because of the Leviathan that they would be facing in Elon Musk.
00:07:49.000If you would like that person to come forward, that person needs to know that outside of hero worship, there are enough people out there objectively who would like to hear some truth that can be spoken no other way.
00:08:57.000There are some disagreements there behind the scenes, quite a bit, where I think that maybe they're going, okay, these people need to have their authority in their departments, and maybe Elon is floundering a little bit, and his focus seems to be right now on pushing some of this AI legislation.
00:10:13.000I mean, they've already engaged in some censorship on Twitter that was, you have an apples to apples comparison, where Rumble said, no, we will not do that.
00:10:22.000If I spoke out the way that I am right now.
00:10:26.000And all of you, Mug Club, Rumble Premium, if instead you were subscribing, you were ex-Premium members, our entire livelihood here would have been shut off, gone.
00:10:38.000And I would welcome Elon Musk to come on the show and have a very subdued, a very rational dialogue about this where we can air our disagreements.
00:10:48.000And hopefully come to some common ground with the American people.
00:11:05.000Maybe like a CEO board or something like that?
00:11:07.000Something like that, and there was something that he did that offended Donald Trump enough where he, I don't know if it was something like that.
00:13:41.000Well, he did make it work, Solyndra didn't.
00:13:44.000It was predicated on subsidies, right?
00:13:47.000So maybe he did, but the point is to then say, is it the government's job to be providing subsidies?
00:13:51.000Now, I think there's a difference between a tax break and subsidies, and electric vehicles have received both.
00:13:54.000I bet you his mind changed when he realized that the government was picking winners He was just in China when all the Daily Wire stuff was going on, visiting his factories and talking about expanding growth in China.
00:14:05.000And he also had, I can't remember the name of the city, but he also, you know, where they keep the Uyghur camps?
00:14:23.000This is from the New York Times where they said that Pentagon is including Musk in discussions about potential war with China, which is a problem.
00:14:48.000Because you need to understand that there are many, many people, your tech overlords, your sort of oligarchs, including, by the way, yeah, in some capacities, Elon Musk, who want to mass import.
00:14:57.000Third world labor from India to price you out of a job.
00:15:01.000And they do show into the guise that it's a more developed nation than it is.
00:17:24.000They're like, "Oh, comedy clubs are letting people with conservative ideas come through.
00:17:27.000Oh, that's great!" It's like, maybe people are just tired of alt-comics who are always conflicted on mescaline seeking out 17-year-old girls while bitching about rape culture.
00:17:55.000So we're just going to present really the news that has taken place over the last couple of days.
00:18:00.000And I know you have some questions about the Big Beautiful Bill.
00:18:03.000First, well, no, you have those questions.
00:18:06.000But first, I think what is most important, especially since you have the world's wealthiest man sort of alluding to the fact that your president may be a pedophile.
00:19:36.000General Cain is going to be picking somebody with our we'll be checking him out and seeing, but he wanted that person, a certain person, and we said no.
00:19:47.000And, you know, I can understand why he's upset.
00:19:50.000Remember, he was here for a long time.
00:19:53.000You saw a He wants to be who he is, so you could make that statement too, I guess.
00:20:19.000So, what proceeded after that would be seen as, I would say contextually now, a meltdown of epic proportions.
00:20:28.000And what I mean by that is, since the meltdown, what you experienced yesterday with Elon Musk, he's then tried to play it off as though it's a joke.
00:20:35.000You don't get to unring the bell of the implication that someone is a child sex offender, in my opinion.
00:20:42.000And so, in my opinion, the talking heads who go, hey, cut it out, you two.
00:20:50.000That's the equivalent to a teacher saying that to you and a bully who's been beating your ass, right?
00:21:00.000There isn't inequivocation, even if you, and I would argue, incorrectly think that the $1.7 trillion in cuts in this big bill are not enough.
00:21:11.000Does that excuse implying that someone is a pedophile?
00:21:15.000If it's not true, which I don't believe it is.
00:21:18.000So, Elon Musk is now trying to walk it back, and I'll get to the quotes from him regarding Epstein and all this, saying it's a joke, trying to play it off.
00:21:28.000I shouldn't say saying, playing it off as though this was all meant in good fun.
00:21:32.000Doesn't seem like President Trump, and I think because there's more to this than what you've seen, doesn't seem like President Trump is very interested.
00:21:40.000And letting bygones be bygones on this one.
00:21:42.000Joining us now, someone who just got off the phone with the president.
00:21:46.000CNN chief political correspondent Dana Bash joins us now by phone.
00:23:42.000And I get that it's painful because a lot of people wanted to see this heal.
00:23:47.000People wanted to see this relationship continue.
00:23:49.000We thought that this, or I should say a lot of people, were implying that this was going to be the future of MAGA, of the conservative movement.
00:23:56.000And I also understand why Elon would be upset at this point.
00:25:29.000It's a smart play because you have to understand that Elon Musk and Doge have had access to government files, confidential information that no one else really would, right?
00:25:38.000Which is also why it's a worry considering that Tesla's the only company that's been permitted to set up shop in China the way that it has.
00:25:43.000He's got information here in this government that no one else has, and I'm sure China would like to have that information.
00:25:48.000It comes down to how loyal do you believe Elon Musk is?
00:25:55.000Do you believe that he did this for the good of the country?
00:25:59.000Supporting Donald Trump only after the assassination attempt, after trying to push Ron Asantis?
00:26:04.000Or do you believe that like he tweeted out, posted, hey, you wouldn't have won without me.
00:26:09.000It's because he wants someone to owe him a favor.
00:26:11.000And then look at his business practices.
00:26:13.000Here's why these allegations make no sense.
00:26:15.000But I also understand some people will believe them if for national security reason that Elon Musk would know the Epstein files can't be released.
00:26:22.000And you know that I absolutely believe they must be released.
00:26:41.000That would mean that the people who have this information on Donald Trump and Epstein, who have a vested interest, who have been in charge of, at least for the last four years, intelligence agencies, didn't release it at any time during the last two presidential cycles.
00:26:55.000I find it hard to imagine in a world Or any kind of a world where Democrats would have this information and not use it.
00:27:04.000I think that's one of the most damning pieces of this is that you know that with everything they were trying to do to keep him out of office, especially this last cycle, it would have come out.
00:27:58.000When Donald Trump realized who Epstein was, he flagged it, and he helped the authorities, and he's the only one that we know of who did that.
00:29:12.000Maybe that's in the file, but it would be weird considering that Bradley Edwards, who was an attorney for the Epstein victims, confirmed in 2009, like I told you, President Trump was the only, only notable figure to immediately and fully comply with subpoenas on Epstein.
00:29:30.000The only thing that I can say about President Trump is...
00:29:57.000And was very helpful in the information that he gave.
00:30:00.000and gave no indication whatsoever that he was involved in anything untoward whatsoever, but had good information that checked out and that helped us, and that we didn't have to take a deposition of him.
00:30:58.000That, and this is one of those things, you don't come back from a comment like that.
00:31:02.000You may walk off into the sunset and do your own thing, but you certainly never get to come back into the fold ever, ever, ever again after a comment like that.
00:31:10.000I don't care how sorry, how much ketamine, how much jolt cola you had in your system at the time, you don't come back from that.
00:31:28.000If you know that you were not a pedophile sex offender and someone told the world that you were, would you ever allow them back into the fold?
00:32:02.000Has Elon, at least these last 48 hours, I would argue he has not in many capacities, though I support the work Doge has done, I'd support it if anyone had done it.
00:32:11.000Last couple days has he been acting in the best interests of America, where we're at a pretty fragile time when you look at what's happening with Russia and you understand what China wants to do.
00:32:21.000It's not a great time to fracture the winning team right now, which is you.
00:32:29.000I would make the case that he's thrown America pretty clearly under the bus.
00:32:35.000I don't know if you saw this, but in a move that I guarantee you China loved, he went after Trump's tariffs.
00:32:41.000Saying that Trump's tariffs will cause a recession in the second half of this year.
00:32:45.000Even the leftist CBO said it would reduce the deficit by, I believe it was $2.8 trillion, I believe.
00:35:53.000And I think he can be a little bit erratic, but disloyalty.
00:35:57.000If he views an action as stabbing him in the back.
00:36:02.000Elon Musk has the same history of tantrums and throwing people under the bus and destroying relationships, but it isn't tied to disloyalty.
00:36:14.000I think there's an important difference.
00:36:17.000Assuming that they both do it to the same degree, which I disagree with, but let's assume that doing so because you were betrayed by a friend is different from betraying a friend because they didn't do what you told them.
00:36:33.000Elon threw a fit when he was challenged over his view of H-1Bs where he believes that they should be limitless because there aren't enough good Americans to do the skilled labor here.
00:36:46.000And when many of you said, hey, hold on a second, that's not what we voted for, he posted, the reason I'm in America, along with so many critical people who built SpaceX, Tesla, and hundreds of other companies that made America strong, It's because of H-1B.
00:37:02.000Take a big step back and fuck yourself in the face.
00:37:07.000I will go to war on this issue, the likes of which you cannot possibly comprehend.
00:39:38.000This is another point, too, because a lot of people don't realize.
00:39:41.000There are people out there, like, for example, Chris Pavlovsky of Rumble, who, by the way, was a Canadian and has always been incredibly supportive of Donald Trump.
00:39:48.000By the way, has also stood up to the governments that Elon acquiesced to.
00:40:50.000But before that, he wanted no tariffs on China, and he still wants no tariffs on China.
00:40:55.000Before that, he didn't care about your taxes going up, and he still doesn't care about your taxes going up.
00:41:01.000Before that, he didn't really care about putting America first and H-1Bs and as many immigrants who can possibly come in with 16 families stuck in a one bedroom to take your job at 60% of the payings.
00:41:21.000He was never a free speech guy, and he is still not a free speech guy.
00:41:27.000He said that the man you elected was a pedophile, and he still hasn't walked it back.
00:41:35.000Don't let that wolf back in the gates.
00:41:41.000I think the most valuable thing, and we're going to go, if you're not a member right now, This is a scary time for everyone here, just so you know.
00:41:48.000Like, I wouldn't be surprised if there's a lawsuit on my desk before I walk out of this studio.
00:42:44.000And for too long, people have hero worshipped on both sides, honestly.
00:42:48.000There's a lot of people right now on X that are just absolutely in the camp for Elon Musk and saying, Musk can do no wrong and just give him time and it's okay.
00:44:10.000But, it's important to note that to have a president who has the world's richest man, who has given more to his campaign or PACs than anyone else, who has a vested interest financially, In certain facets.
00:45:04.000But you actually, yeah, you couldn't state more definitively about any president ever that we have more proof that Donald Trump is unbuyable than anyone else.
00:45:24.000There might have been someone who was less for sale.
00:45:29.000But you couldn't prove it to the degree that you can right now.
00:45:33.000You don't piss off the world's richest man who also has had access to your government in a way that nobody else does who could try and use it against you.
00:45:45.000You don't do that unless you think it's right.