Donald Trump announced earlier this week that if he wins this November, if he gets a second term, he's going to put Elon Musk in charge of a government agency intending to do to the rest of the government what Elon Musk has already done to Twitter. It's in the name of efficiency and cutting spending and stuff like that. [00:00:18] But we've seen what happens when he does that. Things stop working and everything gets way more racist. So anyway, Trump was talking to the Economic Club of New York, which is where regular people go. It's just regular Joes at the Economic Club of New York. He's a populist, you understand people. And he said, at the suggestion of Elon Musk, who has given me his complete [00:00:36] and total endorsement, I will create a government efficiency commission tasked with conducting a complete financial and performance audit of the entire federal government and making recommendations for drastic reforms we need to do. It. Can't go on the way we are now. And obviously from my intro and if you've been watching for a while, [00:00:54] you know that I don't necessarily have a lot of respect for Elon Musk. But that doesn't mean that he can't be efficient I mean, if you take a look at this headline, like he was able to destroy the value of Twitter way faster than anyone would have expected. It was super efficient. How he made $24 billion just vanish. [00:01:11] Gone. It only took a couple of years for him. And you know, Tesla's reputation is in worse straits than ever before. He decided, rather than to pursue the part of the market, people actually care about affordable electric cars, he decided he'd make the worst truck that's ever existed. And so some of these are bold and or efficient moves, [00:01:27] but I don't know that it's necessarily going to help our government. And he has said Musk, that this commission would aim to examine how agencies are spending money, you know, agencies across the federal government working in areas that have one thing in common. Elon Musk doesn't know anything about any of it, but he'll evaluate whether they [00:01:45] need to be spending money that way. And he said he will eliminate Unsensible spending again. He has no training or inclination to be able to evaluate that, but he'll be in charge. And by the way, just for the purposes of our discussion, at that same economic club [00:02:00] meeting, Trump said he's going to further reduce the corporate tax rate. So that's going to go down to 15% from the 21% it's at now. Bear in mind before he became president, it was 35. So it will be a nice chunk, less than half what it was less than a decade ago. [00:02:18] So mission accomplished for the wealthiest people in the country. He's going to stimulate more energy production, and that's necessary because they pretend that we're not already exporting more energy than we ever have as a country, which of course, we are. Get rid of government regulations. [00:02:33] Businesses don't like them and make us the crypto center of the world. - So he has proposed some plans. - Hey, don't scroll away. Come back, come back. Because before the video continues, we just want to urge you to lend your support to tight U power. [00:02:51] Our honest reporting. You do it at tight.com/team and we love you for it. Yeah, so part of fascism is combining the state with corporate interests. And so when you say oh here's a guy who runs, you know, space x x Tesla etc., why [00:03:06] don't you just take over the government? He's going to do an audit of the entire federal government. And he's going to be in charge of doing a drastic overhaul of the. We're just handing it to one of Trump's donors, not just the businessman, not [00:03:23] the richest, just the richest man in the world, which is already think about it. We're handing America over to the richest man in the world. Like, here, just have it. Do whatever you want with it. I mean, if you're a populist, you should loathe this. [00:03:39] But on top of that, he's one of Trump's donors. So Trump is saying he gave me his complete and strong endorsement, in other words, a ton of money. So I'm giving him the US government in return. That's insanity. So look, I play fantasy football, and our friends joke around [00:03:55] whenever we have a vote on an issue. If it affects you that week in whether on who you get to start or whatever, we always vote in our own self-interest, of course. Right. And then go, I'm not voting out of self-interest. I just genuinely believe this. [00:04:11] Right. So that's what Elon Musk is going to do. He's going to go in there and go, hey, look at all these things that massively helped my companies and maybe hurt my competition and whatever else I decide to do, because now it's the American government is my toy. So we're supposed to believe that he's not, [00:04:28] that he's going to say, you know what? I don't even care about making money, even though I've been obsessed with it my entire life. I don't even care about power, even though it's obvious that I'm trying to accumulate as much power as humanly possible. I'm going to reform the American government on your behalf, and ignore [00:04:45] the fact that I've given Donald Trump. What is it, up to $100 million, but a ton of money to be able to purchase this ability to totally gut the US government and turn it into something that is nothing but corporate friendly [00:05:02] corporate rule and crushed average guy. I mean, that's what efficiency means to these guys. Jake. John. Think about it. I mean, both of these guys have extremely similar upbringing. Both of them exist in a capacity where we are even talking about either [00:05:18] one of them because their dad's wealth. Neither one of them did anything. If people throw around genes when they talk about Elon. But geniuses display, you know, quirkiness. Yeah, he has that or childlike behavior. Yeah, he has that. He's eccentric. Yeah, but he's not creative. [00:05:33] He doesn't have a new idea, or he does not bring a new relationship between, idea and unthought of things like Einstein with mass and energy. That's not Elon Musk. What Elon Musk does, he use his dad's wealth that was transferred to him by the luck of genes. [00:05:49] Not DK and Y, but genes. And literally and just take that money and buy the experts in the field until he can't use them anymore. Then he run them off, i.e. Tesla, the two founders of it, and any other idea that I Twitter like. So this guy is not a genius. [00:06:04] We just throw that word around when we equate it with people with a lot of money. I mean, hell, last year Kanye West was considered a genius, and I think Donald Trump finds comfort in the fact that he is worthless without his dad's money. When he see Elon Musk being the richest man in the world. [00:06:19] And that is the glue that will never break up that relationship. So guys, I always say on the show, I've said it hundreds of times, just if you think something well, if you're just trying to evaluate something, think about it as shoe on the other foot and see if it still works. [00:06:36] Right. So we do that all the time when it affects us. And if you're MAGA or right wing independent, I'm asking you to do it in this case. Now he says, well, Elon Musk is an incredibly successful businessman, so obviously I should hand over the entire federal government to him. By the way, I thought you were president anyway, and he's going to reform [00:06:53] the whole government. Why don't you do it anyway? But okay. He's a super successful businessman. We got to give it to him. Imagine if a Democrat said the same exact thing, but just changed the name from Elon Musk to Bill gates. Are you still in favor of it? No. You find, you know, Bill gates and the children. [00:07:10] No way. No way he's gonna take over the whole government in 5G and put it in my head. But no, Elon Musk is a saint. Bill gates is an evil businessman. If you're on the right these days and maybe on the left, but Elon Musk is a saint who's just going to do it on your behalf. You sure? You sure? [00:07:25] Dog? Okay, let's do one last thing. How about another super successful businessman who's also a giant donor like Elon Musk is? Can you imagine if Kamala Harris said, oh, yeah, once I'm in, I'm going to hand the entire federal government over to George Soros. [00:07:41] Hey, Republicans, you know it. You know, without a shadow of a doubt, this is what your head would do. Boom. Right. Great government. Yeah. And right now, I guarantee you, every right winger watching this is gonna do that anyway. [00:07:56] No she's not. She's going to hand it over in mass to her overall donors because that's what every politician does. And we're the only show that's honest about both sides doing it. But she's not going to just pick one guy. The other donors would be mad. Right, right. And just give him the government and say, oh, just shred it. [00:08:13] You just do whatever the hell you want with it, right? She's definitely not going to do that. You're living in a total delusion. If you think she's just going to give it to one donor. But it doesn't matter because even in that scenario where you've convinced yourself. Oh, yeah, but what about you? Right then. Right back at you, brother. [00:08:30] What about you? Your guy just said in public to a bunch of incredibly wealthy businessmen. I'm going to take the one who's giving me the most money and hand the US government over to them. Yeah. If you're not sickened by that, like, okay, congratulations. [00:08:46] You love the elites, you love corruption, you love money in politics. And just admit it and go for the elites. If only a couple of billionaires could shred our government and not give a damn about the American people. Yes, MAGA. Let oh, let the poor elites run this place for for once. [00:09:03] And that's what MAGA turned into from drain the swamp to fill the swamp. You lost your way along the way. Just a quick comment. I mean, the MAGA was never about draining the swamp. It was actually about hating hoo hoo Donald Trump and the white people that support him hate. [00:09:19] I'm not saying every single, MAGA supporter is racist. I am saying every single MAGA supporter is racist. Okay. I don't agree. That goes too far. Okay. I think I think it's 50 over 50 and people can get mad at that. [00:09:36] But but I think Mondale I think a ton of MAGA guys actually hate the corruption. Now, you could say, hey, maybe that plus what you're saying, or you could say you and I don't agree on the percentages, but and by the way, if you think Mondale is completely wrong and there's just no racists [00:09:53] in the country and golly gee, the racists would never support Donald Trump, you're also being ridiculous. So yeah, but hey, we all have different opinions on this and our ranges between, well, let's say maybe a quarter to a 100%. [00:10:08] So there. Thanks for watching The Young Turks. Really appreciate it. Another way to show support is through YouTube memberships. You'll get to interact with us more. There's live chat emojis, badges. You've got emojis of me Anna John Jr. So those are super fun. [00:10:24] But you also get playback of our exclusive member only shows and specials right after they air. 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