With Donald Trump promising a press conference on Friday where he will thank billionaire Elon Musk for his work in setting up the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and proceeding with the dismantling of government agencies, two MSNBC hosts suggested a set-up is in the works.
Discussing the much-hyped press availability, "Morning Joe" co-host Joe Scarborough pointed to a recent Musk interview where he claimed, "I don't want to, you know, speak out against the administration, but I don't want to, because I also don't want to take responsibility for everything the [Trump] administration is doing."
That led Scarborough to joke, "I don't understand the complicated ways of Silicon Valley and Washington, D.C., but I do understand that Elon Musk is desperately trying, as sadly as he can, but as clearly as he can, to separate himself from the work that he did over the past 4 or 5 months that savaged his reputation in the business world and has hurt Tesla."
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"And you can see it there. 'Oh, I'm not going to get specific but, yeah, but I don't agree with everything they're doing. Nod, nod. Wink wink," he quipped.
Co-host Jonathan Lemire predicted Trump will maneuver the press conference to make his billionaire adviser own what DOGE has done.
"What he is going to get instead of that, he's going to get a news conference in the Oval Office where Donald Trump is going to make him grab with both arms a lot of what he did in the administration," Lemire stated before adding, "That's what we're seeing here in a little bit."
He later added, "He [Musk] now sees the aftermath and the impact of what it's done on his businesses, and we've chronicled quite a bit on this show how Tesla has really taken a hit, how Musk's reputation has really taken a nosedive in a lot of quarters around the country and frankly, the planet right now, the way that his companies have suffered in Europe and other places."
"So yes, he is trying he's trying to be subtle, but he is trying his best to separate himself but that's just drawn some ire from the Trump people," he reported. "Stephen Miller went after him on Twitter this week. [House] Speaker Mike Johnson has been critical, and I suspect today we will hear President Trump really try to lash Musk to everything they've been doing in D.C. over the last couple of months."
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