Elon Musk told Fox News anchor Maria Bartiromo on Sunday that he would play a somewhat active role in a possible Trump government.
“He’s a terrific cost-cutter and businessman,” he declared in a special “Sunday Morning Futures” interview. “And he [Musk] said, ‘I could cut costs without affecting anybody.’”
Based on that answer, Bartiromo questioned Trump about Musk’s potential role in his Cabinet in the event that he was re-elected in January.
Retorting, “He doesn’t want to be in the Cabinet,” “He just wants to be in charge of cost-cutting.”
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We’re going to create a new role called Secretary of Cost-Cutting. Elon is keen to pursue that, and we have amazing individuals here. He’s got a sizable company. He cannot just decide to enter the Cabinet. Others are able to. In that regard, Elon differs little from him, yet he still can’t.”
Musk has far greater goals, and he plans to use space travel to achieve them.
Trump remarked, “He’s made me a promise to get to Mars before the end of my administration, which will be long before, hopefully, China or Russia,” mentioning that Space Force was founded during his first term in 2019.
“Space Force is going to be one of our top priorities going forward. China and Russia were killing us in space, and now we’re dominating it.”
Wearing a “Dark MAGA” cap and a “Occupy Mars” t-shirt, Musk made his first public appearance on the Trump campaign trail. This was the former president’s first trip back to Butler, Pennsylvania, since he almost died there on July 13.
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There, Musk warned what impact a Harris presidency could have on the First Amendment.
“This is no ordinary election,” he claimed. “The other side wants to take away your freedom of speech.”
With just over three weeks until voters head to the polls, Trump informed Bartiromo that Musk had since moved on to campaign at other locations. The business billionaire is once again campaigning for him in the Keystone State.
“He’s actually campaigning because he says, ‘If we don’t win, we’re not going to have a country,'” Trump said.
“I think that we just have to win, and the only thing you can do is to win,” he said separately. These people are terrible, and the people around them are also quite terrible. They’re surrounded by far worse individuals than themselves, in my opinion. Kamala is worse than Joe, who didn’t really know too much about where he was.”