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Former President Donald Trump stunned fans at a Michigan rally with an announcement about Space X, Starlink, and Tesla CEO Elon Musk.
The former president confirmed that he intends to bring the CEO into his administration if he is successful in the election, as the national “cost cutter.”
“I’m going to get Elon, and he’s great at this; he’s going to be our cost-cutter. I think he can save trillions,” he said to the audience.
“I don’t think I can get him full-time because he’s a little bit busy sending rockets up, and all the things he does,” he said. “But he’s so much into that. He said the waste in this country is crazy.”
The CEO has been a fierce supporter of the former president and his used his considerable following on X, formerly Twitter, to promote him and his policies.
“We’re going to get Elon Musk to be our cost-cutter. He’s going to do it for zero. He doesn’t want anything,” the former president said.
“It’s going to be incredible, what he’ll be able to do, without hurting anybody — just waste. It’s waste, fraud and abuse … you get rid of that; everybody lives much better, we have a country that’s really strong again,” he said.
BREAKING: Trump just confirmed that Elon Musk will be his “cost cutter” and will oversee the firing of many federal employees to cut spending by trillions of dollars, and he will do it for FREE
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— George (@BehizyTweets) September 27, 2024
A SuperPAC funded in large part by Musk is preparing to launch a series of digital ads aimed initially at swing state voters in support of former President Donald Trump, and the messaging is distinct and direct.
“If you sit this election out, Kamala and the crazies will win,” notes one ad on Google’s YouTube, which has been viewed more than three million times. “You will be stuck with higher costs and more illegals invading our country.” It also depicts Trump as an “American Badass,” using imagery of him pumping his first in the air following the July assassination attempt and imploring everyone to “fight, fight, fight!”
“We must STOP Kamala while we can,” reads an America PAC ad on Meta Platforms Inc.’s Facebook, where Musk’s PAC has placed the vast majority of its digital ad spend. “Arizona families have had ENOUGH of radical liberals.”
Bloomberg News reports that another ad on Facebook includes a voice-over with a Russian accent: “Meet Comrade Kamala,” the 30-second video says. “Ready to bring Soviet Union to Michigan.”
Also on X, one ad recalls how the former president’s political opponents “tried to kick Trump off your ballot” before adding: “They even tried to end his campaign and take him out for good.”
Musk publicly endorsed Trump on July 13, shortly after the assassination attempt on the Republican candidate’s life in Pennsylvania. In addition to pledging millions of dollars to his super PAC, Musk hosted Trump for an extensive campaign event on X and has become one of his most vocal supporters this election cycle.
The America PAC began its Facebook ad campaign in July, focusing on contrasting President Joe Biden’s and Trump’s economic plans. One Facebook ad said Trump “will unleash the production of domestic energy resources, reduce the price of gasoline and natural gas, promote energy security, and ensure that our nation is never at the mercy of foreign countries for energy.”
Bloomberg added:
After the assassination attempt on Trump, the ads continued switched their messaging to extolling Trump as a brave, defiant fighter with the now famous fist-in-the-air photo. Only in the last two weeks have the ads started attacking Harris directly, including video ads on Facebook featuring her laugh or painting her as a radical, with prompts to make sure Trump supporters have a voting plan.
America PAC’s Google ad campaign began in August, with most of the $281,400 the campaign had spent as of Friday afternoon going toward YouTube video ads, particularly targeting Georgia, Arizona, North Carolina, Nevada and Wisconsin.
