Elon Musk might take a comparatively energetic function in a possible second Trump administration, the previous president informed Fox Information anchor Maria Bartiromo on Sunday.
“He is a terrific enterprise man, and he is a terrific cost-cutter,” he mentioned throughout an unique “Sunday Morning Futures” interview. “And he [Musk] mentioned, ‘I might lower prices with out affecting anyone.’”
Bartiromo, drawing from that response, requested Trump whether or not Musk can be in his Cupboard if he assumes workplace once more in January.
“He does not wish to be within the Cupboard,” he replied. “He simply needs to be in command of cost-cutting.”
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Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump, left, and Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk seem on stage at a marketing campaign occasion on the Butler Farm Present, Saturday, Oct. 5, 2024, in Butler, Pa. (AP Photograph/Alex Brandon)
“We’ll have a brand new place: Secretary of Price-Slicing. Elon needs to try this, and now we have unimaginable individuals. He is working an enormous enterprise. He cannot simply say, ‘I feel I will go into the Cupboard.’ Different individuals can. He cannot, however Elon’s a little bit bit totally different in that sense.”
Musk’s ambitions purpose even larger, and he is seeking to outer house to make them occur.Â
“He is made me a promise to get to Mars earlier than the tip of my administration, which will likely be lengthy earlier than, hopefully, China or Russia,” Trump mentioned, noting that he established Area Drive throughout his first time period in 2019.
“It is [Space Force is] now going to be one in every of our most vital issues. We had been getting killed in house by China and by Russia, and now we’re main in house.”
Donning a “Darkish MAGA” hat and a t-shirt studying “Occupy Mars,” Musk made his debut look on the Trump marketing campaign path within the former president’s first return to Butler, Pa., since narrowly escaping dying on the similar location on July 13.
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Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk listens as Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump speaks at a marketing campaign occasion on the Butler Farm Present, Saturday, Oct. 5, 2024, in Butler, Pa. (AP Photograph/Alex Brandon)
There, Musk warned what influence a Harris presidency might have on the First Modification.
“That is no extraordinary election,” he claimed. “The opposite facet needs to remove your freedom of speech.”
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Musk has since moved on to campaigning at different websites, Trump famous, telling Bartiromo that, with simply over three weeks left till voters head to the polls, the enterprise mogul is stumping for him within the Keystone State but once more.
“He is really campaigning as a result of he says, ‘If we do not win, we’re not going to have a rustic,'” Trump defined.
He individually added, “I feel that we simply should win, and the one factor you are able to do is to win. These are unhealthy individuals, and so they’re surrounded by very unhealthy individuals. I feel they’re surrounded by a lot worse individuals than they’re. Joe did not actually know an excessive amount of about the place he was, and Kamala is worse than him.”
