The Daily Populous Friday February 21st, 2025 night edition
Authored by newrepublic.com and submitted by Boonzies

“I’d like to also just send a message—like, because, as the president said, like, this—there’s a lot of rich people out there,” Musk said. “They should be caring more about the country because—the reason they should be caring about—more about country is: America falls, what do you think is going to happen to your business?”

“What do—what do you think—do you think you’re be going to be okay if—if the ship of America sinks? Of course not. Like, what—what I’m doing here, what the president is doing is it’s just long-term thinking. The ship of America must be strong. The ship of America cannot sink. If it sinks, we all sink with it.”

When Trump attempted to join in on the answer, Hannity seemed more eager to follow up on Musk’s response, explicitly cutting the president off.

esoteric_enigma on February 20th, 2025 at 15:57 UTC »

It's weird that they are having this double interview at all. If the president was going to do an interview with someone by their side, I'd expect it to be the Vice President or his wife.

This just speaks to how much power Musk has in this administration. He doesn't even have an official title but he gets to sit beside the president like they're peers.

Snakesandrats on February 20th, 2025 at 14:46 UTC »

> Elon Musk Talks Over Trump in Humiliating Sean Hannity Interview

That's not even hyperbole. And it wasn't like the conversation between Edolf and Hannity was riveting and Trump couldn't get a word in. Nope. They intentionally ignored and talked over him like he was annoying to them. Absolutely bizarre that Trump is putting up with this. Pathetic actually.

MJcorrieviewer on February 20th, 2025 at 14:46 UTC »

“What we’re really trying to do here is restore the will of the people through the president. And what we’re finding is that there’s an unelected bureaucracy—speaking of unelected, there’s a vast federal bureaucracy that is implacably opposed to the president and the cabinet.”

Speaking of unelected...