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Former President Donald Trump pledged during an interview on Sunday with Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo that, should he win the November election, he would press billionaire Elon Musk into service on behalf of all Americans.
“We have the endorsement of Elon, as you know,” Trump told the host at one point during the interview. “Elon Musk, who’s great. He’s a great guy. He had such a good time. He put the black hat on.”
“Dark MAGA,” Bartiromo said.
“He calls it Dark MAGA,” Trump said. “How cool is that? He’s a great guy. He’s given us a really powerful endorsement. He’s out campaigning in Pennsylvania today. He’s actually campaigning because he says if we don’t win, we’re not going to have a country.”
Later in the interview, Bartiromo said, “You’ve also said that there’s a lot of fat in government that you would want to part of. So what agencies would you want to shut down?”
“Let me have you ask another person that,” Trump responded. “Because I’m going to have Elon Musk — he is dying to do this. You know, he’s a great business guy, actually. You think of him for science and rockets. And every time I think he’s telling me about a new screw that was developed, he’s developed a new screw, screws are difficult, and it’s made out of titanium, and it’s so exciting. But you know what? He’s a great business guy and he’s a great cost-cutter. You’ve seen that. And he said ‘I could cut costs without affecting anybody.’”
“So he will be in the Cabinet,” Bartiromo offered.
“Not in the Cabinet. He doesn’t want to be in the cabinet. He just wants to be in charge of cost-cutting. We’ll have a new position: Secretary of cost-cutting, OK? Elon wants to do that,” Trump replied.
“And we have incredible people. He’s running a big business. You know, he can’t just say, ‘I think I’ll go into the Cabinet.’ You know, other people can. He can. But Elon’s a little bit different in that sense,” said Trump.
“And besides that, I want him to send a rocket up to Mars. He’s made me a promise: he’ll get to Mars before the end of my administration. Which will be long before, hopefully, China or Russia,” he added.
“I created Space Force. First time that’s been done since the Air Force. Air Force was the last, 81 years ago. And I did Space Force. And when Biden heard, he laughed, he thought it was so funny. He didn’t understand, and he tried to end it. And the military went down and him you wouldn’t believe it. It’s now going to be one of our most important things. We were getting killed in space by China and by Russia, and now we’re leading in space,” he said.
Last week, Musk warned that the country would collapse if Harris and Democrats win.
“Very few Americans realize that, if Trump is NOT elected, this will be the last election. Far from being a threat to democracy, he is the only way to save it!” Musk began in response to another user who noted the Biden-Harris administration is rushing to grant citizenship to migrants at an unprecedented pace.
“Let me explain: if even 1 in 20 illegals become citizens per year, something that the Democrats are expediting as fast as humanly possible, that would be about 2 million new legal voters in 4 years. The voting margin in the swing states is often less than 20 thousand votes. That means if the ‘Democratic’ Party succeeds, there will be no more swing states!!” he wrote.
“Moreover, the Biden/Harris administration has been flying ‘asylum seekers,’ who are fast-tracked to citizenship, directly into swing states like Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin, and Arizona. It is a surefire way to win every election,” he continued.
“America then becomes a one-party state and democracy is over. The only ‘elections’ will be the Democratic Party primaries. This happened many years ago in California, following the 1986 amnesty. The only thing holding California back from extreme socialism and suffocating government policies is that people can leave California and still remain in America. There won’t be any way out once one party controls the entire country. Everywhere in America will be like the nightmare that is downtown San Francisco,” he concluded.
