Lawrence: Elon Musk suffered a humiliating demotion by Donald Trump

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW

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🗓️ 13 November 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: Donald Trump picks a Fox host to serve as defense secretary. Also, Trump allies push for Rick Scott as the Senate GOP leader. Plus, Senate Democrats race to confirm judges before the next Trump administration. And a former NASA official flips a GOP House seat in California. E.J. Dionne, Stuart Stevens, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, and Rep.-elect George Whitesides join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0	Now it is time for the last word with Lawrence O'Donnell. Good evening, Lawrence.
0:04.4	Good evening, Alex. Amy Klobuchar is going to join us. She helped confirm another Biden judge today.
0:11.0	And this is after Donald Trump ordered Republicans in the Senate to make sure no Biden judges confirmed after the election.
0:19.9	They're on their track now to confirm maybe about 20
0:22.5	more. What Trump asks for and what actually happens, sometime do not match. Exactly. And Alex,
0:29.1	you've hit on the theme of the next hour of television right here, exactly that point. I'm very
0:35.6	eager to hear what other examples you come up with, Lawrence?
0:38.5	Thanks, Alex.
0:39.2	Have a great show.
0:40.0	Thank you.
0:41.5	Well, Elon Musk suffered a humiliating demotion tonight by Donald Trump.
0:47.5	The theory that Elon Musk might become, in effect, a co-president or the real president, while Donald Trump, in effect,
0:56.7	retires to a life of golfing, suffered a significant setback tonight when Donald Trump announced
1:02.9	that he would give Elon Musk a job that does not exist and will last at most 18 months. And worst of all, Elon Musk, the richest person in the
1:16.2	world, was assigned a working partner who, like Musk, has also never worked in government
1:22.7	before, Vivek Ramoswamy, who's not even a billionaire.
1:28.9	Elon Musk didn't even get his own press release from Donald Trump.
1:33.3	He had to share it with Vivek Ramaswami.
1:36.7	Elon Musk got the first shared press release of any of Donald Trump's appointment announcements.
1:47.9	Even the Fox host, who isn't even the richest person at Fox, got his own press release from Donald Trump when Donald Trump announced
1:52.9	that he would nominate Pete Heggseth as Secretary of Defense. That's right, a Fox weekend morning host for Secretary of Defense.
2:05.6	Today was the silliest day yet in the Trump personnel announcements. We will get to more of them in a moment.
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