Former President Donald Trump fawned over Elon Musk at several points during a new interview with Fox News anchor Maria Bartiromo.
In an exclusive interview. on Sunday Morning Futures, the former president — completely unprompted — invoked Musk’s name and boasted about his “really powerful endorsement.”
“We have the endorsement of Elon, as you know,” Trump told Bartiromo. “Elon Musk, who’s great. He’s a great guy. He had such a good time. He put the black hat on.”
“Dark MAGA,” Bartiromo said.
“He calls it Dark MAGA,” Trump said. “How cool is that? He’s a great guy. He’s given us a really powerful endorsement. He’s out campaigning in Pennsylvania today. He’s actually campaigning because he says if we don’t win, we’re not going to have a country.”
Later in the interview, Trump again brought up the Tesla CEO unprompted — in response to a question from Bartiromo about trimming “fat” in government.
“You’ve also said that there’s a lot of fat in government that you would want to part of,” Bartiromo said. “So what agencies would you want to shut down?:
“Let me have you ask another person that,” Bartiromo said. “Because I’m going to have Elon Musk — he is dying to do this. You know, he’s a great business guy, actually. You think of him for science and rockets. And every time I think he’s telling me about a new screw that was developed, he’s developed a new screw, screws are difficult, and it’s made out of titanium, and it’s so exciting. But you know what? He’s a great business guy and he’s a great cost-cutter. You’ve seen that. And he said ‘I could cut costs without affecting anybody.'”
“So he will be in the cabinet,” Bartiromo said.
Here is Trump’s response:
“Not in the cabinet. He doesn’t want to be in the cabinet. He just wants to be in charge of cost-cutting. We’ll have a new position: Secretary of cost-cutting, OK? Elon wants to do that.
“And we have incredible people. He’s running a big business. You know, he can’t just say, ‘I think I’ll go into the cabinet.’ You know, other people can. He can. But Elon’s a little bit different in that sense.
“And besides that, I want him to send a rocket up to Mars. He’s made me a promise, h’ll get to Mars before the end of my administration. Which will be long before, hopefully, China or Russia.
“I created space force. First time that’s been done since the Air Force. Air Force was the last, 81 years ago. And I did Space Force. And when Biden heard, he laughed, he thought it was so funny. He didn’t understand, and he tried to end it. And the military went down and him you wouldn’t believe it. It’s now going to be one of our most important things. We were getting killed in space by China and by Russia, and now we’re leading in space.”
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