Trump Rambles When Reporter Confronts Him Over Filing Saying Elon Musk Is Not DOGE Employee
President Donald Trump waffled when a reporter confronted him over a court filing claiming Elon Musk is not a DOGE employee, then rambled for nearly nine minutes about, among other things, dubious claims of rampant centenarianism.
Trump’s White House has been busy cranking out a series of contradictory explanations for what Musk’s job exactly is, referring to him as a “special employee” and the “head of DOGE” then claiming in a court filing that he doesn’t work at DOGE at all, then the “head of DOGE” again.
Trump spoke to reporters Monday in a photo op at Mar-a-Lago as he signed executive actions, and one reporter confronted him over the contradictions.
He responded by offering several alternative descriptions and launched into a lengthy rumination that included the misleading assertion that there could be millions of 120-plus-year-olds out there drawing Social Security — a statistical anomaly related to electronic death records:
REPORTER: In a court filing, the White House said that Elon Musk is not a DOGE employee and has no authority to make decisions. Can you clarify for us today (inaudible)?
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Elon Musk is. Yeah. Yeah, Elon is to me a patriot. So, you know, you could call him an employee, you could call him a consultant, you could call him whatever you want. But he’s a patriot.
I mean, look at the kind of things I just said. So just in case that question got elsewhere. And which I’m surprised it took so long, actually. But you know what? Ukraine is a bigger deal because people are dying by the thousands a week. Thousands.
But look at this, from 90 to 99. Social Security, 6 million, 54,000 people. Well, that’s okay. Maybe that’s possible. You know, 92, to 90, 99, maybe it’s possible. That’s a lot of people, though, at that.
But people that live to 100 to 109, 4,734,000. Wow. That’s a lot. That means over 100 years old. 4 million people. I don’t know. I know there’s so many. I know people that are doing great in their 90s, but not too many people over 100, but over 120 from 120 years old. People that are 120 years old, up to 129, 3,472,000 people.
Wow! You know, that can’t possibly be because the record is like I think as one person, a woman lived to 127, but they have 3472.
Okay. But now we’re going really in people from 130 years old to 139 year old, 3,936,000. Wow. I wonder if people are getting paid with all this. I mean, are these checks And that’s what we’re checking right now.
(SEVERAL MORE MINUTES OF THIS)
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