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Trump's Tesla stunt was no 'homage' to workers: Conservative breaks with CNN's Jennings

Conservative Jonah Goldberg set CNN's Scott Jennings straight Wednesday for claiming President Donald Trump was promoting American workers with his Tesla stunt on the White House lawn.

On Tuesday, Trump staged a much-mocked photo op with five Tesla vehicles after vowing to buy one to help Elon Musk's company rebound over DOGE backlash.

Xochitl Hinojosa, a panelist on Kasie Hunt's "The Arena" addressed Jennings saying, "As a Republican strategist, you wouldn't have advised him to go in front of the White House and drive a Tesla!"

"Wait, why?" Jennings retorted. "Of course I would have! You know why? Because if I were advising a Republican president, I would say, 'Let's support American companies that have thousands of American workers and thousands more workers who make indirect products for it.' Yeah, I think it would be a good idea if American companies did well."

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He added, "I've never seen Democrats so excited to tear down an American company or companies the way they are right now. It's crazy!"

After much back-and-forth, Goldberg contradicted Jennings, saying, "I don't think the Tesla event was done as a homage to the American worker. It was a favor to Elon Musk, who's — I take Trump at his word — that he thinks Elon is being treated unfairly."

Goldberg continued, "I think what this whole spectacle really does is, it takes the bloom off of the honeymoon in the sense that when Trump hit the ground running with all those executive orders, it really seemed like he had a plan for what they were going to do, right? This time was different. He knew all the punditry was about how he knows what he wants to do, and he's going to have the people in place who won't undermine him, and all that kind of stuff. And in the last month, we've just seen this on again, off again, 'I'm going to do tariffs, I'm not going to do tariffs.' He's trying to say, 'Well, it's just about flexibility.' And I think what's rattling the markets more than anything else is that he's kind of making it up as he goes along."

Watch the clip via CNN below.

'You know that's true, Scott': CNN's Jennings fact-checked on Elon Musk's overreach

CNN conservative commentator Scott Jennings mocked a former Obama official for claiming she was terrified over Elon Musk's "conflict of interest" with the government agencies he's tasked with reforming.

"Okay, fine. you want to make cuts, make cuts," Xochitl Hinojosa declared on Sunday's State of the Union. "There are significant conflicts of interest when it comes to Elon Musk, and that is the problem. He owns several businesses where personal data and personal information could benefit his financial interests."

She continued, "And the sources that I've been talking to within the FBI are actually terrified that he is trying to put people within the FBI in order to advance his financial interests. One example of that is, he wants the FBI to start using Starlink. So how frightening is that?"

Anchor Dana Bash interjected to clarify that "Starlink is his own internet company."

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"He wants FBI to start using Starlink to start tracking people. Now, that is terrifying to me that he, he is not acting, as as Scott likes to say, 'On behalf of the president.' He is acting on behalf of himself, and I think people should be very scared about that."

"You're terrified that the FBI might have the internet?" Jennings quipped.

"No, I'm terrified that Elon Musk is putting people in federal agencies to figure out business opportunities for him, and you know that's true, Scott!"

"I think that's overblown," Jennings said. "He's the richest man in the world — "

"That's concerning!" Hinojosa exclaimed.

Jennings continued, "He's like sleeping on the whatever, the floor of a government office building seven days a week in order help this government. The spending is interesting. We're not going to balance the budget based on these spending cuts, although some of this stuff is patently, objectively ridiculous. And when I see Democrats rushing out to defend some of the things that are, you know, that that he's cutting, I mean, it makes the Democratic Party sink to a very low levels."

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Trump's Tesla stunt was no 'homage' to workers: Conservative breaks with CNN's Jennings​

'You know that's true, Scott': CNN's Jennings fact-checked on Elon Musk's overreach

Trump's Tesla stunt was no 'homage' to workers: Conservative breaks with CNN's Jennings