President Donald Trump and DOGE head Elon Musk responded to allegations from liberal media pundits and Democratic leaders that they’re making a constitutional disaster, arguing their detractors “are responsible of the crime of which they accuse us.”
“That is all the time the very first thing they do. ‘He is in violation of the Structure.’ They do not even know what they’re speaking [about],” Trump stated in the course of the pair’s first joint interview on “Hannity” Tuesday.
The forty seventh president added the accusers “could not care much less concerning the Structure.”
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Musk added in the course of the “Hannity” unique that the allegations are “absurd.”Â
“When these assaults happen, the factor that they are accusing the administration of is what they’re responsible of. They’re saying that issues which are being completed are unconstitutional, however what they’re doing is unconstitutional,” the Tesla founder argued.
The seemingly unlikely political duo mentioned a spread of matters in the course of the unique wide-ranging interview with Fox Information host Sean Hannity, together with the Division of Authorities Effectivity (DOGE), Trump’s first 100 days in workplace and different main points.
Trump formally introduced Musk’s position in his new administration shortly after his decisive victory within the November election, tapping him to assist DOGE “dismantle Authorities Paperwork, slash extra laws, lower wasteful expenditures, and restructure Federal Businesses.”Â
In current weeks, DOGE has focused the U.S. Company for Worldwide Growth, the USA Division of Well being and Human Providers and the USA Division of Training.Â
Since taking workplace, Trump and the DOGE agenda have confronted mounting scrutiny from many Democrats. A number of media shops and Democratic voices have focused Musk, accusing him of usurping presidential powers by DOGE and mocking him as “President Elon Musk.”
“We should be over the goal or doing one thing proper,” Musk instructed Fox Information host Sean Hannity.Â
“They would not be complaining a lot if we weren’t doing one thing helpful… What we’re actually making an attempt to do right here is restore the need of the folks by the president. And what we’re discovering is that there is an unelected paperwork – talking of unelected, there is a huge federal paperwork that’s implacably against the president and the cupboard.”
Musk concluded that outrage from many on the left is “the beating of the paperwork as we attempt to restore democracy and the need of the folks.”
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The pair additionally defined how their unsuspecting political alliance got here at the side of the “alternative to repair the system and to revive the facility of democracy” supplied by Trump’s decisive 2024 election victory.
Whereas DOGE is the administration’s major vessel for addressing “waste, fraud and abuse,” Trump and Musk additionally emphasised the position of “competence” and “care” in bringing about authorities change.
“Whenever you add extra competence and caring, you get a greater deal for the American folks,” Musk stated, claiming that the American taxpayer has been getting a “horrible deal” notably within the earlier Biden administration.
Additionally in the course of the “Hannity” unique, Musk opened up about his expertise with “Trump Derangement Syndrome,” revealing he didn’t notice it was an actual factor till he was at a pal’s feast a month or two earlier than the Nov. 5, 2024 presidential election.
“I occurred to say the president’s identify, and it was like they acquired shot with a dart within the jugular that contained like methamphetamine and rabies,” Musk stated within the joint interview.
Musk imitated folks on the get together going loopy and questioned why they couldn’t have a traditional dialog.
“It is like they’ve develop into fully irrational,” he stated.Â
Trump and Musk additionally shut down numerous makes an attempt by the media in current weeks to “drive us aside.”
“I see it on a regular basis,” Trump stated. “Truly, Elon referred to as me — he stated, you understand, ‘They’re making an attempt to drive us aside.’ I stated, ‘Completely.’”
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“It is simply so apparent. They’re so dangerous at it. I used to assume they have been good at it. They’re really dangerous at it as a result of in the event that they have been good at it, I would by no means be president,” Trump added, who isn’t any stranger to criticism.Â
Fox Information Digital’s Louis Casiano, Sarah Rumpf-Whitten contributed to this report.
