Lawrence: Musk & Hegseth lead ‘humiliation parades’ in the halls of Congress
The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell
Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW
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🗓️ 6 December 2024
⏱️ 42 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Well, no one in public life now self-humiliates more than Elon Musk. Yes, Donald Trump self-humiliates |
| 0:09.4 | all the time with most of what comes out of his mouth and, of course, every dance move. But as a |
| 0:17.8 | politician, Donald Trump is required in that pursuit to speak publicly and to do so frequently. |
| 0:26.9 | Corporate titans don't have to do that. |
| 0:30.8 | They are under no obligation to speak. |
| 0:32.8 | We have no idea what Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple, thinks about most things. |
| 0:39.2 | We have no idea what the head of General Motors or Ford or the people running Google think about most things. |
| 0:47.3 | But Elon Musk, unwisely, steps out of his intellectual depth every day, repeatedly, to humiliate himself. |
| 1:00.7 | The way I would humiliate myself, if I were to talk about electric cars, for example. |
| 1:05.6 | He humiliates himself. |
| 1:08.6 | Talking about subjects he knows absolutely nothing about. Like who should be the next |
| 1:14.2 | majority leader of the United States Senate. Donald Trump didn't say a public word about that. |
| 1:21.0 | He did not dare. But Elon Musk foolishly did. Elon Musk picked Florida Senator Rick Scott publicly endorsed him, and Rick |
| 1:30.7 | Scott came in last among the group of three candidates for Majority Leader. Everyone knew he |
| 1:37.7 | was going to come in last. Only two of those candidates were serious candidates, and only one of |
| 1:43.2 | them actually had a real chance. |
| 1:46.1 | Senator John Thune of South Dakota won on the first ballot, even though Elon Musk publicly opposed |
| 1:53.1 | John Thune and announced publicly, and he thought this was really condemning, that John Thune |
| 1:58.3 | was really the favorite choice of Democrats. And that is actually true. |
| 2:02.7 | Democrats don't want John Thune to be majority leader. They want Chuck Schumer to stay as |
| 2:07.2 | majority leader. But if a Republican has to be majority leader, they would prefer John Thun to the |
| 2:13.9 | alternatives. Elon Musk foolishly believed that identifying that simple fact that Democrats |
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