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- [00:05]
Rachel Maddow
As is abundantly obvious, this is the Musk administration, as we saw at the press conference with Little X, telling President Trump, you're not the president. Shh. We all know now that this is the Musk administration, and obviously it is corruption upon corruption upon corruption. We keep reminding people that Musk has stopped 32 investigations into his companies. But I thought a great point was made yesterday in Congress. Play the clip.
- [00:38]
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Oh. How much money a day Mr. Musk will receive from the federal government for his contracts? No, the answer is $8 million a day. Just last year, Elon Musk was promised $3 billion from close to 100 contracts with the federal government. Ms. Royal, do you know how much the average person in this country who survives on Social Security, one of our seniors who's worked their entire life about how much they have to survive on a day?
- [01:08]
Rachel Maddow
I do not.
- [01:09]
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
$65 a day. We're not looking into Elon Musk's $8 million a day. This subcommittee, chaired by Marjorie Taylor Greene in the House Republicans is looking into your grandmother's $65 a day. When Republicans talk about.
- [01:25]
Rachel Maddow
How great was that? I mean, he just told it like it was. I mean, first of all, anytime you say Marjorie Taylor Greene is the head of a subcommittee, you know, it's a clown car. It's just buffoonery in action. But Elon Musk, I guess he got a 40 or a $400 million contract, and the government's trying to disguise that. It's actually going to Elon Musk. Let's start government efficiency there. But you know why we can't? Because there's no rules. He gets to pick and choose. He would rather take money from babies in Africa and people on Social Security than cut his millions and hundreds of million dollars of earnings.
- [02:05]
Joy Reid
His whole Doge thing. So far, what he reports has all been smoke and mirrors. Everybody knows how we could immediately cut a lot from the deficit, and that would be to close tax loopholes and for billionaires and millionaires to pay their fair share every. Everybody knows that 25% of the federal deficit was incurred by Donald Trump's first administration. What the Democrats have got to start messaging is the Republicans are a party of corporate welfare. They bail out the banks, they bail out the auto industry, they bail out the airlines, they bail out Elon Musk. Elon Musk gets $8 million per day. They scapegoat so that you don't look at any of that. Oh, my God, look at these trans people. They're going to take over the country. When in actuality, there are over 500,000 NCAA athletes in that organization under 10 are trans. This is not an executive order type situation. But they are able to because their base is so wound up about really random weird things. And think about drag queens and G and trans people at a rate that, to quote Trump, the likes of which I have never seen. And it's unbelievable how easily these people are goaded into this. The enemy in all of this, why they're trying to get your eye off the ball is because the Republican Party is the party for shareholders. These people have yachts, these people have boats. Now let me just say this. If somebody's really successful and makes a lot of money, I don't want to hate them. But I do think they should pay their fair share. And I do think if they have government subsidies, they should have massive fiduciary governing laws over them to make sure that this isn't all getting consolidated to one person who can then buy the President of the United States and take his nose picking toddler into the Oval Office and humiliate us on a world stage. Call me crazy, but if I were in maga, I would be wound up like a cheap clock that a South African born man has the President of the United States on a dog leash and walks him around like he's a little fluffy Pomeranian in a pink sweater. I have never seen anything like this in all 50 years of being an American. This is a joke. It is embarrassing. And Elon Musk is a threat to the entire world, not just to us.
- [04:38]
Rachel Maddow
Well, interestingly enough, his neck, you know, he's got SpaceX, that's his big deal, putting people on Mars, blah, blah. Well guess who he's wanting to audit next? NASA, which we all know. NASA is the space organization by the government. He has absolutely no business. It is a conflict of interest in the highest order. But guess what? There's no transparency, there's no accountability, there's no oversight. All of these cuts he's making, oh, this is fraud. And this is fraud. And this is fraud.
- [05:14]
Joy Reid
Where's the proof?
- [05:16]
Rachel Maddow
Where's the beef? As they once said, show me where the fraud is coming in and saying it doesn't make it fraud. And guess what? He's already said he's going to lie. He's already said that about the condoms in Gaza. So we now have, we've dismantled the Department of Education, usaid, now we're going to go for NASA because he wants to be the first one to do the things that the goals that he and NASA have in common and the blatant conflict of interest. Do you think there's one Republican Senate saying, you know, I don't know, that might be a conflict of interest? Obviously not, because they haven't done it so far.
- [05:52]
Joy Reid
Well, there's one Republican that has been, and it's Mitch McConnell. And here's what I have to say about that. Nothing tells you you need term limits more than a man who is 750,000 years old, who strokes out and falls down all the time in the Capitol, who has made this moment one of the biggest contributing individuals to this very moment, has aided, abetted, enabled and appeased the American public to shift this far and to be to fall prey to fascism. He is one of the largest architects of this moment. But because he can't run again, because he said he's resigned and he's older than shit, now all of a sudden he's voting against these appointments and he is sounding the alarm about Elon Musk. And that tells you you really get the real person right before they go out of power. Look at Jeff Flake, look at John McCain. Remember when he came out and did the thumbs down. Look at Liz Cheney, look at Joe Scarborough. This guy used to be far, far right winger. Look at John Boehner. They're all, they say everything they need to on Fox when they're in the right wing propaganda machine. But the minute they're about to get out and their legacy is going to be in history forever, they real. Oh, shit. I know better than this. I know the thing. I know I'm a part of the machine that feeds this propaganda to these people. And I know that this isn't going to end well. And you have Mitch McConnell who is now trying to show us that he's not an asshole. And it's just more than I can take. It's so gross.
- [07:37]
Rachel Maddow
Well, he, he can't rewrite history. That he's an asshole. I mean, that is etched on his forehead, on the statute. In my mind, he is an asshole. And he created this problem because he had no balls. None. This is the first time in all the years he's been in there that I remember he actually had any balls, even for his own wife. But that, that's a different story for a different day. One thing I just want to point out, and this, this is alarming to me, I read an article that Elon Musk in one week texted or tweeted X whatever you call it, 1500 times in two weeks. Now I ask you, is that a stable person Ask yourself if one of my loved ones or dear friends was text or tweeting $1500 at 1500 times in two weeks and 117, 7, 178 posts in one day, would you not be alarmed? Would you not be concerned? Would you not think they're divorced from reality? And here's another thing I want to point out. This is all why. He is slashing budgets, illegal activity, stealing your data, sleeping on the floor, taking his booger toddler into the Oval Office. He's doing all this and he's able to tweet all this time. This man is not well. He is not well. And he is in charge of our private data and every single dollar the US Government has in its hands.
- [09:15]
Joy Reid
What we have with Elon Musk is an untreated active drug addict. And it has been widely reported by friends of his, former friends of his, one of them being Sam Harris, that Elon Musk has a ketamine problem and he's a Twitter addict. And anybody listening or watching, you know what being around an untreated alcoholic is like. You know what being around a drug addict is like. Most of us have had this in our families. We're one degree of separation from it. Or some of you that are watching or listening might yourselves be in recovery. And you know that when a person is an active addiction, they destroy everything around them. And this is universal across all addicts. They think they're so universally unique and they're not. Their addictions are all. They destroy themselves and everything around them and the collateral damage is horrible. The situation here is this person is in charge of the Treasury Department and is moving at rapid speed. Seek and destroy mission, agency by agency by agency. He is a South African. And I know we have a lot of South African viewers and listeners, and we love you and we know that you're glad that you're rid of him. But this is unbelievable that it's not getting checked within MAGA because these people are like they say that pumps and I aren't real Americans. I was born in Texas. It doesn't get any more American than that. She was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. And we have people on the right saying we're not real Americans. And they're tolerating a. A South African that comes over here and gets subsidies off your taxpayer dollars and is gaming the system left and right. And now he's going to take away money from real Americans. Rural Americans, rural farmers, are now facing bankruptcy because he's pulled the USAID contracts. Marco Rubio, that little twerp you think he's going to do anything about it? No. You think Donald Trump's going to do anything about it? No, because Elon Musk owns him. This is mafia shit. And the head of this mafia is a total ketamine snorter, in my opinion.
- [11:40]
Rachel Maddow
Well, to further your point on just how impotent Donald Trump is when it comes to Elon Musk. Elon Musk, the premier or prime minister, whatever the leader of India was in town and Elon Musk, he met with Donald Trump and then he met with President Musk. And so Donald Trump was asked about the meeting with President Musk and here's what he had to say with Prime.
- [12:05]
Donald Trump
Minister Modi earlier today. Did he do so as an American CEO or did he do so as a representative of the U.S. government? Are you talking about me?
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Joy Reid
No.
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Donald Trump
Elon Musk. Elon, I don't know. They met and I assume he wants to do business in India because he.
- [12:20]
Rachel Maddow
Wants to do business there. So he's using his contacts with Trump to meet with the Prime Minister of India to do his personal business. Trump knows it. And his little hang dog head and slump shoulders, he knows he can't do anything about it.
- [12:35]
Joy Reid
This is wild. I mean this is, this is unbelievable to sit here and watch this. And I think about all of the former leaders that we've had that have tried hard to right the ship. Yes, all of you leftists, some of them are a part of the system. But there have been a lot of people who have fought for civil rights and justice and to try to make expand rights for people in one fell swoop. These incompetent, racist, stupid, I mean not even intellectuals at all. I mean just real bottom feeders have come in and just hatchet job, this whole thing, when you think about it, like federal workers are required to take drug tests and like, why aren't we demanding that of Elon Musk? Because I really believe my husband is in recovery and I genuinely believe the behavior I'm seeing from him is somebody who is in active addiction. It is this flurry of nonsense and flurry of it seems like he's just trying to like catch his tail all the time. And you know, this is a country of 330 million people and a lot of people depend on these agencies. And if maga, if y'all, you don't want people not getting a fair shake or getting assistance and you want to put your head on the pillow that night, swing for the fences, I don't want to be that kind of person. But I do know that with the way I vote, you will reap the benefit of it. And I do know with the way you vote. I personally, I'm a white, privileged white woman. I'm personally not going to be too damaged by the Trump administration. But it pains me. It pains me so much that there are so many members of the LGBTQ community, trans community, who are being bullied and marginalized and scapegoated, and that's before we even get to that. They've tried to erase black history. They're removing black history from classrooms. And the fact that white people had the audacity to. To say there wasn't one white person in the super bowl, and what I have to say about that is good for you, Kendrick Lamar. Good for you. I loved it. I embrace black culture. I am so happy that we have black culture. And I think every white person should strive to be a barbecue approved white. And for all of you magas that want to sit over there and get on board with all of this, you can do it, but you're going to suffer from these policies, Joe Biden's policies. You're not going to suffer, suffer. You just get to be an ass on Twitter all day.
- [15:13]
Rachel Maddow
Yeah, well, we're going to stay in charge of watching Elon Musk so you don't have to, so stick with us.