GOP strategist: Musk picked fight with Trump

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00:00These two men have been threatening each other in quite a public way and we've had

00:04Elon Musk threatening Trump as we've been saying earlier on with the startup of a brand new political party which will you know

00:12undo some of his hard work and

00:14perhaps

00:15Spell some difficulty for him in the in the midterms next year. We've had President Trump threatening Elon Musk with

00:22Deportation. I mean in terms of the court of public opinion who's coming off worse would you say in this row?

00:29Well, he never actually said he was deporting him

00:34He was playing with the idea

00:37Maybe toying with the idea, but I think that's what President Trump likes to do

00:41But look if you're looking at who are asking who started this if we're gonna be really childish about it

00:48You know Elon was the one that went for the jugular in the first place

00:51So I would just say that Elon started you know down a road of going against President Trump

00:57And that was not something smart to do you know

01:00You know someone like Elon is very invested heavily in various companies and they have boards and this doesn't look favorably upon what

01:10He's trying to accomplish which I think you know Elon is someone who does want to see the best for this country

01:16Certainly he got involved to help President Trump and do everything that he could for President Trump and other races

01:21But picking a fight with someone like President Trump is not a good idea for someone who's still in the business sector

01:27In the business sector