Trump: Elon and I will destroy the economy
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I know the reasons it won’t, but this should really be a much bigger story than “old guy who is no longer running for president is not an articulate speaker:”
Just hours after Elon Musk admitted Donald Trump’s policies will tank the entire economy, the former president confirmed his plans to let Musk be a part of the destruction, claiming that “nobody is going to feel it.”
In an interview with Sean Hannity on Tuesday night, Trump lauded Musk as a “very exceptional guy” and a “great cost-cutter” when asked about a potential role for the billionaire CEO in his Cabinet. But even more unbelievably, the Republican candidate said with confidence that the American people wouldn’t “feel” the economic impacts of cutting trillions from the budget.
“He’ll cut costs without anybody even knowing it—nobody’s going to notice—nobody is going to feel it,” Trump told Hannity, confirming that Musk does indeed plan to slash $2 trillion from the government’s budget.
Musk has proposed heading a “Department of Government Efficiency” under a Trump Cabinet—and the former president has clearly taken him up on it. At Trump’s hate-filled Madison Square Garden rally over the weekend, Musk announced that the target is $2 trillion in cuts.
Trimming the budget to the level would have to include cuts to essential government services like Medicare and Social Security—and could result in an initial huge economic crash. But Musk admitted Tuesday that that’s all a part of the plan, agreeing with a far-right troll on X that crashing the economy would lead to “sounder footing” in two years.
Just waste. fraud, abuse, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, healthcare tax credits, people to inspect food plants…you won’t notice, and you won’t notice the massive inflation our across-the-board tariffs will produce either!
The fact that the incumbent party is getting little credit for by far the best recovery from the pandemic among peer nations and the candidate pledging to create a new depression is a coin flip from winning is astounding. We can only hope it lands right.