Musk Argues ‘Democracy’ Is Trump Being Able to Do Whatever He Wants
President Donald Trump and the man who appears to be running the country with him sat down for a co-interview with Sean Hannity of Fox News on Tuesday night where — like gum stuck in a toupee — Elon Musk spent much of the airtime repeating talking points and proving he needs a refresher on how democracy works.
When commenting on how criticism of Trump’s administration from Democrats, Musk insisted, “All we’re really trying to do here is restore the will of the people through the president, and what we’re finding is that there’s an unelected bureaucracy.” He added, “Speaking of unelected, there’s a vast federal bureaucracy that is implacably opposed to the president and the cabinet.”
The Tesla billionaire continued to ramble, “If the will of the president is not implemented and the president is representative of the people, that means the will of the people is not being implemented, and that means we don’t live in a democracy, we live in a bureaucracy,” before asking Hannity, “Does that make sense?”
Despite Trump’s pledges to keep the American people’s best interests in mind, the president has repeatedly expressed to his wish to be a dictator, used his executive power to target civil rights, and his Department of Homeland Security has now budgeted as much as $200 million on anti-immigrant ads.
Elsewhere in the interview, Musk kvetched that he “used to be adored by the left,” until they were all infected with “Trump Derangement Syndrome.” He claimed that at a dinner party a few months before the election the mere mention of Trump’s name caused his fellow diners to react like “they got shot with a dart in the jugular that contained like methamphetamine and rabies.”
Since Trump’s inauguration, Musk has taken on an unprecedented, dubiously legal role as a fiscal and bureaucratic weed whacker at the head of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). The Tesla and SpaceX billionaire, who remains active as the head of his companies, has led a gutting of federal programs, regulatory agencies, and congressionally authorized budget items he doesn’t particularly like.
DOGE is a loosely authorized temporary contracted organization that lacks the congressional authorization needed to make it a true executive department. With Trump’s blessing, in the first months of the administration Musk and DOGE have cut thousands of jobs from the federal workforce, targeted the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for dismantling, terminated high-level FEMA officials, and sought to force their way into sensitive financial systems at the Treasury Department, Social Security Administration, IRS, and the Office of Personnel Management.
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