Why have Musk and Trump become best friends?
The News Agents
Global
4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 13 August 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Trump and Musk - it was a rambling conversation covering an extensive list of Trump's grievances. Will an endorsement from Elon Musk change the course of Trump's election campaign?
And, Lewis and Jon are joined by Madam Speaker Nancy Pelosi for an in depth conversation about the presidential race, social media and Liz Truss.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.6 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:13.1 | You know, the biggest threat is not global warming, where the ocean's going to rise one-eighth of an inch over the next 400 years. |
| 0:19.8 | The big, and you'll have more, you'll have |
| 0:21.4 | more ocean front property, right? The biggest threat is not that. The biggest threat is nuclear |
| 0:26.2 | warming. You are the path to prosperity and I think Kamala is the opposite. That's my, I mean, |
| 0:30.9 | that's my honest opinion. I'm gonna get attacked like crazy and, you know, I've also experienced |
| 0:34.9 | quite a bit of low fare myself. |
| 0:40.7 | But I'm just trying to tell people my honest opinion, |
| 0:44.5 | and I haven't been really active in politics before, |
| 0:49.0 | and I'm just trying to point out that my track record historically has been moderate, |
| 0:50.5 | if not moderate, slightly left. |
| 0:55.1 | And so this is to people out there who are in the moderate camp to say, |
| 0:58.5 | I think you should support Donald Trump or president. |
| 1:05.7 | Those are the voices of perhaps the two biggest figures on the modern American right, perhaps even hard right. Donald Trump, of course, but also Elon Musk, the owner of Tesla and of course X, hosting a odd, |
| 1:15.3 | rambling conversation between the two men last night where Elon, despite saying that he'd previously |
| 1:22.3 | been on the left, gave Trump his endorsement for the election. |
| 1:26.1 | Donald Trump loves anyone who endorses him full stop. |
| 1:30.3 | But this is someone with considerable power, huge amounts of money, and a platform, |
| 1:37.8 | which is probably one of the biggest social media platforms there is in the world. |
| 1:42.5 | But will it make a difference? |
| 1:46.1 | Is this going to change the race? |
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