Transcript
Host 1 (0:00)
Foreign.
Host 2 (0:04)
It's working, but we can do better pumps. I want to show you what a whipped puppy looks like.
Elon Musk (0:12)
I think in terms of political spending, I'm going to do a lot less in the future.
Interviewer (0:21)
And why is that?
Elon Musk (0:24)
I think I've done enough.
Interviewer (0:28)
Is it. Is it because of blowback?
Elon Musk (0:33)
Well, if I see a reason to do political spending in the future, I will do it. I do not currently see a reason.
Interviewer (0:39)
What about.
Host 2 (0:41)
Okay, so here he is, you know, facing the consequences of the aftermath of academy spiral, doing horrible business dealings that caused him to be under 16 different investigations. He's doing Nazi salutes. He buys Twitter, renames it. It's just been an abject failure. And furthermore, I've read a lot of reports that his cars, Tesla, aren't even that great. They're not even the best EV on the market. They haven't evolved technologically like other cars have. So here he is facing consequences and how smug he is there, and the lack of acknowledgment that maybe I should have just focused on my businesses and. And face the music. Because this public global backlash that he's dealing with, I think he will never be able to dig out of. I do not think his reputation is recoverable, and I don't think it should be.
Host 1 (1:40)
I completely agree with you on that. Two things stuck out to me. Like you said, he has zero ability to say, you know, I made some mistakes and some poor choices, and if I had it to do over again, I do differently. No accountability. And then he says, well, if I see a reason to do it, the reason he doesn't need to buy another presidency is all the damage he's done to the United States in this presidency. And he got out of all the trouble that he was in with the investigations, like you mentioned, because he bought and paid for Donald Trump. And I hope for the American people we don't have another presidential candidate that's up for sale.
Host 2 (2:17)
Well, I think he puts that caveat in there, unless I need to. He needed to buy Donald Trump. That's right. And so now he's doing the calculus. Was me pulling out all of these investigations that were going on against my companies, did that? What fines he would have paid? What is a greater damage here? Lifelong brand damage and a stock tumbling and everybody boycotting his brands worldwide, other countries refusing to put Starlink in their countries, or would it have been better for him to have just paid the fines? I think probably his board of directors on his publicly held companies are telling him this was not worth it. And in any other company on the planet, he would have been fired. But here's the same interview, and this is where he just completely starts spiraling out of control. Watch this.
