Donald Trump decided to take a few jabs at Elon Musk after his whole
Twitter deal was terminated.
He was planning on buying Twitter and then he backed out of the deal,
after it was abundantly clear that he had agreed to pay too much for the platform.
And then he claimed,
you guys have way more bots than I realized and I'm not gonna do it.
So look, I don't care, we'll see how that all ends up.
He might end up going to court over this battle with the Twitter board.
But what I thought was fascinating was how Donald Trump talked about it over
the weekend.
Here he is at a rally in Alaska, let's watch.
>> And go out by the way while I'm here and sign up now for
truth social, it's hot as a pistol.
And you see that I pulled that one right liens.
I tell you what, Elon is not gonna buy Twitter.
Where did you hear that before, for me from a fake account She says a lot of no,
he's got himself a mess he said the other day, I've never voted for a Republican.
I said I didn't know that, he told me voted for me.
>> [LAUGH] >> So he's another [INAUDIBLE] honest.
>> [LAUGH] >> But he's not gonna be buying it,
although he might later who the hell knows what's gonna happen.
He's got a pretty rotten contract, I looked at his contract,
not a good contract.
>> I gotta say man,
I wish Trump wasn't seeking political power because if he's just like
a normal guy who does these rallies cuz he likes to be in front of a crowd.
They're entertaining, he knows how to work the crowd.
He's funny, he's an awful person.
But he's for Elon, why does he talk like that?
[LAUGH] But I love that he talks like that, Elon.
>> Nobody is accidentally funny like- >> Yeah totally.
>> Like the time that he was presenting awards for
the US Paralympic team and all the medals that they had won.
He's like the great, the wonderful.
Yeah I watched him and began watching too much a little painful like no no no.
Okay.
So, but he doesn't realize that he's being horribly offensive.
So in this case we're gonna get to why they're beefing in a second.
But- >> Why they are beefing.
>> Yeah, [LAUGH] I'll solve the mystery of who's lying, because Elon Musk says he
never voted for a Republican before, but he's ready to do that now.
And Trump says no, he told me he voted for me, right?
The correct answer is both, they're both lying.
I wouldn't trust either one of them on anything.
So is it possible he almost told Trump that he voted for him but didn't?
Yeah of course that's possible, he's almost a liar.
Is it possibly almost voted for Trump?
And then he's pretending that he was a lifelong Democrat?
Yeah, that's definitely possible.
Is it possible that trump is making up the whole story?
Of course it's possible, he's a pathological liar.
>> In other words, they're both BS artists.
>> 100%.
>> So I mean, look if ever there was an expert to point to a BS artist,
it would be Donald Trump, right?
>> Yeah. >> He would be able to identify one
pretty quickly.
So yeah, I hear him on that.
>> Before we go to the rest, I mean speaking of BS artist, he's like,
I looked at the contract, not a good contract.
Look Elon Musk is overhyped though he's such a genius.
Then why did he offer 44 billion for
Twitter when anyone could tell that was ridiculous, awful, right?
But Trump, you're gonna call him out on it.
Dude, you went bankrupt six times, you're the world's worst business.
>> Looked at the contract.
>> What did you know you didn't, you were in a contract.
>> [LAUGH] I know.
I can't read past the page, let alone legalese, you're crazy man.
He didn't look at the contract, he's an idiot.
>> So Trump once actually had a lot of praise for Elon Musk.
So I'm actually gonna go to a video from January 22nd of 2020.
Let's take a quick look at that and
then we'll get into the details about why Trump is actually salty towards Elon Musk.
>> Tesla is now worth more than GM and Ford, do you have comments on Elon Musk?
>> Well you have to give him credit.
I spoke to him very recently and he's also doing the Rockets.
He likes Rockets and he does good at Rockets too, by the way.
I never saw where the engines come down with no wings, no anything and
they're landing.
I said, I've never seen that before.
And I was worried about him because he's one of our great geniuses and
we have to protect our juniors.
We have to protect Thomas Edison and we have to protect all of these people that
came up with originally the light bulb and the wheel and all of these things.
And he's one of our very smart people and we wanna cherish those people.
That's very important, but he's done a very good job.
>> Trump should have just been a broadcaster.
>> [LAUGH] >> He really should have
just been a broadcaster because his style of speaking, look,
take the substance, whatever you can call substance out of it completely, right?
All the politics out of it.
The way he speaks is excellent broadcasting, right?
The Rockets and then what else did he say?
>> The enunciation, he is inaccurate [LAUGH]
>> His excellent enunciation,
it keeps you listening.
>> Unless he's saying the word origins.
>> Yeah, then would- >> He's in a lot of trouble.
>> When he's messing things up not good.
And he would not be a good fit for like NPR, where they like to whisper the news,
but in other entertaining type news content he might be good.
>> No, he'd be good in sports and not because he would know anything about
sports because it would be hilarious to listen.
>> So hilarious.
>> You know what the guy throwing the ball,
he's good with the ball, he's good with the ball, okay?
And it went down there or up there.
>> Ellen. >> It would be hilarious.
They are calling him FitzMagic >> [LAUGH]
>> Because he creates magic,
even though his name is Fitzpatrick.
Okay anyways, random reference.
So I mean look at him, he's such a child and we were laughing at him, but
remember 40% of the country looks at him and goes genius, they think he's a genius.
He's good with the Rockets.
We need to protect our geniuses and
like Edison- >> Edison, live Bob.
>> The people in America they invented things like the light bulb and the wheel.
No, Americans did not invent the wheel.
>> [LAUGH] >> America was not around when we invented
the wheel.
[CROSSTALK] [LAUGH] Okay, but
he probably every Republican countries like what do you mean?
We invented the wheel and we invented fire.
>> All right, so let's get to why Trump is actually sold like why
his heart has changed toward Elon Musk.
He went from wanting to protect the genius to now all of a sudden he's a BS artist.
Well, remember one of the more enticing elements of Elon Musk buying Twitter for
right wingers, was that he would restore Donald Trump's account.
He's been banned from Twitter ever since he refused to calm the capital riders
on January 6th and
continued spreading lies about the election allegedly being stolen from him.
And so Elon Musk wrote, even though I think a less divisive candidate would
be better in 2024, I still think Trump should be restored to Twitter and
I'm sure that got Trump real excited.
Now two days later Trump predicted that Elon would not go through with
buying Twitter.
So he deserves his I guess justice results on this, let's watch that.
>> Elon Musk so I don't believe he's gonna buy Twitter, because you have so
many fake accounts, the bots all of the different things.
I think it's gonna be very interesting and he's got some problems
because he bought a lot of stock that he shouldn't have bought,
you got a lot of problems with Twitter.
But twitter has a lot of problems so go to truth.
Truth social- >> All right and
there's Trump plugging his truth social competitor to Twitter.
And then in June Elon was asked which potential presidential candidate he
would support in 2024.
And this is where it gets good,
because this is really where Trump is likely to be upset with Elon Musk.
What are you leaning toward?
And Elon Musk says DeSantis.
>> Cash feelings over that.
But I'm telling you for the first tweet was enough that's why Trump hit
him two days later, he says, even though I think a less divisive
candidate would be better at 2024 no Trumps out, he got his freedom.
I read the tweet, I mean the contract not a good contract,
good Rockets, bad contract.
Okay, [LAUGH] so of course they're gonna fight for the rest of time.
But look, here's an important point out of all these guys outside of the fun.
Trump in the old days would concentrate on one person at a time,
that's the right way to do it.
Because it would come up one at a time and
he would destroy one Republican that opposed him after another, right?
But now there's too many of them that opposed him.
So as he's wildly lashing out at everybody,
including people like Elon Musk who have a lot of right wing fans.
Now, he's picking up more and more enemies not just from the leaders, but
also from their stands, right?
There's tons of Musk fans on social media and in the right wing.
So I think that he's beginning to do damage to himself as as he's going on
these wild attacks against almost everybody.
>> Nothing ever makes sense in the right wing, so
I don't think he's doing any damage to himself.
I think the more he flails, the more he has missteps,
the more he embarrasses himself, the more right wing voters are going to love
him and the more they're gonna defend him on Twitter.
And remember one of the reasons why Elon Musk is so popular,
especially among some of the crypto bros on Twitter,
is because he would manipulate the value of cryptocurrencies on Twitter, right?
And he made some of these guys super wealthy and
if they cashed out soon enough then they're probably happy.
But a lot of people also lost a ton of money because of that crypto
manipulation that was going on.