In this episode, we discuss the departure of Elon Musk from the Department of Geopreneurs and the impact it has had on the economy. We also discuss Trump's comments about Musk and his role in the Doge program.
00:00:00.160Elon Musk and Trump, okay, you know, they said he's going to work for four months, 110 days, whatever the number was, it's done, he's moving on, no longer there.
00:00:08.540You're saying Doge was a massive failure, your words, you know, they said $2 trillion, then they lowered it to $2 trillion, but it's at $170 billion in only four months.
00:00:18.240Some people would say, Brandon, you know, four months to be able to save that much money, and maybe there was a following up because the two, you know, he would have wanted to do it in a certain way, but he doesn't have the control because Trump's doing it.
00:00:27.780He would have gone to – nobody knows.
00:00:29.220There's a lot of different things that's going on.
00:00:30.500I've been calling this that there's going to be a lifespan of how long this is going to work out since day one.
00:00:35.280I said this in October of last year, that this is going to be tough for the two to work together.
00:00:39.820Rob, can you start off with the first clip of the big, beautiful bill and then go to one by one by one?
00:01:28.980Is this from the Oval Office at the departure ceremony?
00:01:31.620This is where President Trump gives Elon Musk a key to the White House and talks about all of the trials and tribulations he went through heading up Doge.
00:01:52.860By the way, and this is from Forbes magazine, which has become a leftist, China, I don't even want to get into it.
00:01:58.920Forbes is not the Forbes of what it was 10 years ago, not what it was five years ago.
00:02:02.540It's a whole different company today, but I'll read this to you and then let's go into that.
00:02:05.160So Trump questioned Elon Musk's Doge cuts, expressed skepticism about the savings claimed by billionaire advisor Elon Musk's Department of Doge,
00:02:15.380reportedly asking, was it all bullshit?
00:02:17.320According to unnamed administration officials cited by Wall Street Journal, questioned Musk's promise to cut a trillion dollars of waste and fraud reduction,
00:02:23.660which Musk reiterated during a Friday Oval Office press conference with Trump Doge claimed it had saved an estimated $175 billion through workforce reductions,
00:02:32.420grant cancellations, contract cancellations, and more, equating to $1,086 per taxpayer,
00:02:38.000but faced scrutiny for inaccuracies such as claiming $8 billion in savings from an immigration contract valued at $8 million,
00:02:43.000with a BBC analysis finding only about half of the itemized savings published by Doge were linked to receipts or other forms of evidence,
00:02:51.700some listed as unavailable for legal reasons.
00:02:53.620So that's Wall Street Journal and Forbes.
00:02:55.100I mean, you can say there's no credibility there, but I'm reading that story.
00:02:58.520This leads to the key, the ending, the conversation, and the question about maybe some of the personal activities that he's having.
00:08:58.180Okay, yeah, he helped with Doge and everything, but there's other – I don't think Elon is getting – got worked or used because Brandon is making good points.
00:09:07.000He's getting what he's getting out of this situation as well.
00:09:09.360Every week there's another rocket being launched.
00:09:57.300What does Vivek look like now, now that this is taking place 100 days after Trump's administration with Doge?
00:10:03.080I never understood that Elon Musk would be the person running Doge.
00:10:05.680You're already running Tesla, SpaceX, and a dozen other companies.
00:10:09.860You have Vivek, who's a rising star in the Republican Party, coming out.
00:10:13.340He was the first person talking about government efficiency.
00:10:15.820And all of a sudden, Elon shows up, throws what?
00:10:18.880A quarter billion dollars behind Trump, and then he becomes dark MAGA, and then ousts Vivek from basically the thing that Vivek almost started?
00:10:37.940I thought Vivek would be the guy running this.
00:10:41.240I never thought for a million years that Elon would be the guy that would stay through this entire situation while running multiple companies, while basically trying to occupy Mars.
00:11:04.900Was there any drug testing or any requests for him to drug test when he was in the White House, given the fact that he was also a contractor with the government?
00:11:11.220Fortunately for you and all the friends at CNN, you'll have the opportunity to ask Elon all the questions you want today, yourself.
00:11:19.500In the meantime, the drugs I'm concerned about are the drugs that are coming across the border from the criminal cartels that are killing hundreds of thousands of Americans.
00:11:27.440And we're going to save hundreds of thousands of lives if these district courts would just get the hell out of the way.
00:11:51.380Even he, who is the closest thing that we have to a robot as a human being, he looks unhappy and wants to get back to fulfilling his vision, whatever that vision for him is, to knowing that he can never be the president of the United States.
00:12:07.340He's going to go and build his own vision and to be in pursuit of.
00:12:10.640But I love also how Trump handled the whole thing on the gentle, thank you for your contribution.
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