In an interview with Fox News’ The Ingraham Angle on Tuesday night, President Donald Trump defended leading supporter Elon Musk’s efforts to retrieve two stranded NASA explorers.
The explorers Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams have been stranded on the International Space Station since June 2024, but they finally returned to Earth on Tuesday.
” When I first took office, I said Elon, we had to get them out,” I said. You’ve got a rocket ship, nice, right”? Trump responded to a question from the show’s network, Laura Ingraham. ” How many people have a jet that Biden left up?” He gave them up.
As de facto head of the Department of Government Performance, Musk has received more and more negative comments from Democrats, theft at his Tesla shops, and loss of wealth as a result of his efforts to reduce government spending and labor.
Trump defended Musk’s efforts to resurrect the explorers while making an allusion to his popularity.
They were supposed to stay a few days it. They were it for a lot of times, and now they’re returning,” Trump said. But consider it. You have people who despise it because Elon is allowed to do that with his talent. And I firmly believe that these are people who despise our nation. It’s a significant issue.
Trump also referred to the software businessman as” Elon is a patriot”.
Trump also agreed with Ingraham’s assertion that the new vandalism attacks on Musk’s Tesla services were acts of domestic violence.
He responded,” I believe so.” ” I believe that if and when they catch the citizens, and I hope they do, the good news is that they have a lot of devices there, and they’ve already caught some having to do with that,” he said. You will learn, in my opinion, that they are paid by extremists on the left.
Trump praised an power and equipment deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin in an earlier interview with Byron York from the Washington Examiner, which may result in an immediate ceasefire with Ukraine.
Trump after told Ingraham that he and Putin had a “great” conversation, but they did not discuss the continued U.S. aid to Ukraine.
We avoided discussing assist,” he said. In reality, we never talked about support. We talked a lot of things, he said, but help was previously discussed.
Trump once more refuted says that he was too affluent with Russia, saying,” There’s no one who has been tougher on Russia than me.”
