Musk and Hannity talk right over Trump in awkward Fox News interview
Musk and Hannity talk right over Trump in awkward Fox News interview
Hannity was laser-focused on the billionaire in a new clip of the three-way sit-down at the White House.
Summary
In a Fox News interview, Elon Musk and Sean Hannity repeatedly talked over Donald Trump, sidelining him in a discussion about government efficiency.
Musk dominated the conversation, warning of national bankruptcy and presenting himself as a savior.
Hannity largely directed questions to Musk, while Trump struggled to interject.
The awkward exchange fueled speculation about Musk’s influence, with some questioning who is really in charge.
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Honestly where the fuck is JD Vance? Isn't he the vice president? Musk is always next to Trump, I haven't seen Vance one time
He's on a world tour, convincing our allies they need to band together against the US
What the fuck :(
Yeah he went to Munich and gave a speech where he scolded our European allies for criminalizing or de-legitimizing Nazi political parties. Europe immediately started leaning into the EU Army concept.
Great job JD.
Did you see the clapping? Vance's support team were clapping for him, while all the European delegates just stared stone faced.
So bad it's got its own wiki page https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_JD_Vance_speech_at_the_Munich_Security_Conference
Especially this part, which he apparently intended as a "joke":
(...) if American democracy can survive 10 years of Greta Thunberg scolding, you guys can survive a few months of Elon Musk
Thunberg is an activist from Sweden who owns a social media account. Musk is a billionaire from Apartheid South Africa who owns a social media company and actively interferes in German elections.
Needless to say, the joke didn't land.
Cause we think he’s a fuckwit.
Nonono, he is a fuckwit. You guys just recognize it.
History being written before our eyes
JD really trying to show the world what to avoid. Reminds me of my dad. See him and do the opposite.
Laying low so as not to take as much heat for all this as Musk, so that when Trump is done Vance can be boosted as a more moderate alternative to Trump and Musk's extreme measures, even though Vance would be just as bad, if not worse. But if they can keep heat off him in this cycle, it will be better especially when things reach the breaking point and people want heads (but still want to vote republican.)
Vance would be worse. He is an actual politician and a believer in the Project 2025 bull shit. Trump probably would not have even run if he had not been staring down 100 barrels of jail time.
I don't doubt the notion that 2016 Trump ran as a grift and wasn't really hoping or expecting to win, but 2020 and 2024 Trump had tasted power and definitely wanted it back, in addition to staring down 100 barrels of jail time.
It's weird how a person so seemingly unimportant hasn't been converted into a scarecrow, made to vouch for key positions in their plan, etc. This man is either sleaky enough to avoid much of responsibility for what happens or everyone in the HQ forgot about him. His position doesn't mean much power in the US, but it's really interesting that he doesn't get much coverage as a legally second in chief and seemingly abstain from everything while, before Musk got the wheel I thought he would play a key role in advocating for everythng techbros are up for.
There are actually powerful interests that like Vance, maybe more than Trump. Vance is a long term prospect for the moment, I think. Trumps admin likes to stir shit up over here, while building power and planning long term over there. I think historically Trump himself was a barrier to this kind of planning, but it seems like he's gotten with the program this time around.
I doubt we've seen the last of Vance, in all the worst ways imaginable.
This is an interesting take. I always figured if it got to the point where Vance was their number 1 guy, he wouldn’t have the cult leader charisma to keep MAGA together and it would all fall apart. Wishful thinking I suppose. But maybe that’s why they are installing musk to begin with.
He is very unlikeable, but for a lot of people the cruelty a politician is capable of is a big part of the appeal. Won't make him popular with the masses necessarily, but we can be tricked.
But yeah bringing out Vance early in such a high profile way will probably have the effect of making him look better down the road when the stakes are higher. All that couch-fucker stuff, his history of pro choice comments, they knew it would come out so its better to get it out now than later, when he's already become part of the "establishment" of the right. No halfway career conscious editor is going to publish old news like that. And then a little more consent is purchased, not as the result of some widespread conspiracy but as the result of a system of incentives and disincentives that generate the kind of irrational self interest that is the only discernable political project of any kind on the right, maybe in the american political system as a whole, though I'm sure that would be taking the point too far.
Trump was being honest when he said Vance didn't matter and wasn't going to do anything in office anyway.
He's in Europe supporting fascists and Nazi's.
Hell, where the fuck is Trump?
Granted, I am absolutely not seeking him out, but it felt like he was everywhere in his first term with his stupid idiot rambling speeches.
But this round it's all DOGE and Musk and maybe, something more vague about what the "Trump Administration" is doing, but it feels like Trump isn't even around.
Hell, the other day I was wondering if he had died of a heart attack or something but they were just keeping the body locked up and pretending he was alive while Musk destroys the country.
Oh, he's everywhere... He's been giving almost daily speeches or interviews. This week he went to the Daytona 500, gave an unhinged speech full of Russian talking points about Ukraine, grimaced through a very weird pair interview with president Musk where he kissed Musk's ass through gritted teeth, went golfing, and did a press event about how only he can interpret the law now. Today he said he's going to fort Knox to "make sure the gold is there"
He's on the camera so much so that it's obvious he's a puppet at this point - he doesn't have the unaccounted for time to be getting briefs and making day to day decisions. They put him at the kiddie table and are keeping him occupied with events
If you're not seeing it, it's probably censorship. They're having trouble editing together coherent sound bites, it seems like he's regressing. He keeps talking about real estate - he's going to make Gaza a resort, he's talking about what they can rebuild in Ukraine, he's talking about how he needs Musk because contractors give him a mock up and then get caught up in securing financing or something...
He's pulling a Pence. Be close enough to reap the benefits but far enough to not go down with the ship.
JD Vance's job is to not overshadow Trump. Trump doesn't seem to mind if Musk does, though.
I haven't even heard his name since the election besides Colbert making couch jokes.