Trump & Elon’s Most Unhinged Press Conference Yet
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🗓️ 30 May 2025
⏱️ 14 minutes
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| 0:23.5 | to discuss Elon Musk and Donald Trump's press conference that just concluded. |
| 0:27.8 | I guess this is the farewell press conference for Elon. It was, it was weird. |
| 0:32.8 | You know, I mean, wouldn't that sum up his whole term in the administration? |
| 0:36.9 | I mean, my thought was like, you know, this is just how it began. Elon is being weird. He's wearing a weird shirt, you know, like a t-shirt in the White House. He's kind of looming over Trump at the Resolute Desk. I mean, that's his thing, I guess. He is, yeah, no, that is his thing. We're going to get into some of the moments, although it's tough to figure out actually if there was any news there. All right, so yeah, like, it just got off |
| 0:59.0 | to a bizarre tone from the jump because Trump took a laptop out and decided to play a CNBC clip |
| 1:05.0 | from the inflation news this morning, and then just sort of sat there with that kind of, kind of |
| 1:09.9 | Cheshire cat grin on his face listening to it as the laptop pointed out at the press and then it |
| 1:14.2 | just got weirder from there um what were your highlights were there highlights i think there's |
| 1:18.7 | mostly low lights low lights i mean you know if you consider a guy having to face the the press |
| 1:23.9 | the same day the new york times comes out with an article about his bladder issues i would say |
| 1:27.7 | that's the article about his bladder issues it talks about the bladder issues it did i don't know if |
| 1:33.7 | the article was about the bladder issues there's several other headlines there so yeah so obviously |
| 1:39.1 | you know to the you know on friday the new york times has an article saying you know Elon is is rolling on ketamine nonstop. He's, he's like a, he's like a downtown Manhattan girlie, right? And he's going, going wild for K. And then, you know, and among the other issues that frequent ketamine use causes is bladder issues. And they know, they say, he's saying it's affected as bladder. And then later on, they're like, here's probably it's like a bladder control thing or maybe bladder pain. |
| 2:17.6 | And so then someone gets up there and says, you know, hey, one of the reporters says, what's going on with you and all the ketamine? It was Peter Ducey. Yeah. So Peter Ducey gets up there and he says, what's going on with all the ketamine? And Elon clearly has, I would say, a rehearsed response where he goes, |
| 2:18.8 | Oh, the New York Times? |
| 2:17.5 | Isn't this the fake news New York Times from Bushigate? all the ketamine. And Elon clearly has, I would say, a rehearsed response where he goes, |
| 2:18.8 | oh, the New York Times? |
| 2:32.9 | Isn't this the fake news New York Times from Bush and Gate? And they're going to have to give back their Pulitzer. I don't want to talk about that New York Times. Okay, hold on. Let's pause because that was a horrible Elon impression. It's got to be one of the worst. we're going to play the actual clip now and then you can judge. |
| 2:33.9 | I'm not even going to say anything more about it. |
| 2:36.2 | It was so bad. |
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