Is Elon Musk leaving the White House?
Americast
BBC
4.2 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 4 April 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
There was a bright spot for Democrats this week after a liberal judge beat her conservative rival in the most expensive judicial election in US history. Susan Crawford beat Brad Schimel despite being backed by President Donald Trump's billionaire adviser Elon Musk.
The results came amid reports that Elon Musk could soon leave his prominent role in Donald Trump's administration. The White House has described the reports as "garbage" and that Musk would only leave when his work at DOGE was complete.
And, Justin has been chatting to an economist from The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think-tank which backs Trump's global tariffs policy.
HOSTS: • Justin Webb, Radio 4 presenter • Marianna Spring, Social Media Investigations Correspondent
GUEST: • EJ Antoni, Heritage Foundation Economist
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, AmeriCasters. There are more of you now with us than ever before, and we'd like to try to keep it that way. |
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| 0:17.0 | It has finally happened. Or maybe it hasn't. Well, not quite. We were taking bets back in November, actually, on when Elon Musk would step aside from the White House and why what the falling out would be over. Well, there are now reports that he is on the way out. |
| 0:34.0 | Though no proper reports of falling out, but the White House say, no, he's going to stay on for a bit longer. |
| 0:40.2 | Well, there is a reason why he might be going now, and that is an election that has just taken place in Wisconsin, in which Elon Musk poured a ton of money into it and lost. |
| 0:50.6 | Maybe Donald Trump doesn't like losers. |
| 0:53.0 | Welcome to AmeriCast. |
| 0:56.7 | AmeriCast. AmeriCast from BBC News. |
| 0:59.8 | You're gambling with the lives of millions of people. |
| 1:02.5 | You're gambling with World War III. |
| 1:04.8 | President Trump's message is very simple. |
| 1:06.8 | We are done being taken advantage of. |
| 1:08.6 | Mr. President, in the name of our God, |
| 1:12.5 | have mercy upon the people. |
| 1:13.8 | We're scared now. |
| 1:16.0 | Are you supportive of these onesies? |
| 1:17.5 | I'm supportive of vaccines. |
| 1:18.6 | What is happening? |
| 1:20.3 | Like, this is not America. |
| 1:21.9 | This is a terrible nightmare. |
| 1:24.9 | This is what victory feels like. |
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