MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace cut into Elon Musk's rambling press conference on Tuesday afternoon to say that watching Musk take over Donald Trump's event prompted her to question who is in charge of the White House.
"One: Irony died while he was talking," said Wallace at the start of a fact check.
Musk was complaining about "unelected bureaucrats." Wallace pointed out, "The only unelected party in any of this is Elon Musk."
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Andrew Natsios, the former administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development and a lifelong Republican who describes himself as a hardline conservative, complained about Musk's purge of the U.S. program. Wallace quoted him saying any president can change the focus of USAID. Dismantling it isn't the right way to go.
"So, the idea that the bureaucracy, as Elon Musk is describing, isn't responsive to the policymaker, is destroyed by the fact pattern, as testified to by Democratic and Republican cabinet officials. But there you have it. The co-president, speaking much longer and in far greater detail than the president, drawing into serious question who's in charge?"
Lawyer and civil rights advocate Maya Wiley said it "certainly isn't 'We the People,'" citing the opening lines of the U.S. Constitution.
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