You can find a transcript of Donald Trump’s long — quite long — interview with Elon Musk here. As a guy who’s pointed out how Trump’s interview schedule usually sticks to his amen corner on Fox News, I think doing a wide-ranging interview with Musk is more useful and productive than another call-in to Sean Hannity. And if Trump intended the Musk interview to be two hours, the event went fine, even with the technical snafus and delays.
Still, Trump could help himself with sharper, more direct, more focused, and more specific criticisms of Kamala Harris.
For example, last night Trump told Musk, “Because look, Kamala was the border czar. Now she’s denying it. Everything that I do, she’s saying she was strong on the border, we’re gonna be strong.”
It is indeed absurd that the Harris team and their media allies are playing the semantic game that she never had the official title “border czar.”
Trump could help himself if he just pointed to the number of times that news institutions like the Associated Press, Axios, Politico, and CNN referred to her as the “border czar,” or cited Biden’s description of her duties, to “lead our efforts with Mexico and the Northern Triangle and the countries that help — are going to need help in stemming the movement of so many folks, stemming the migration to our southern border.” Don’t just make an accusation, use their own words against them.
Point out the specific policies that were repealed upon Biden’s taking office. At one point, Trump said, “But it’s not that, it’s everywhere. They’re coming in from everywhere. And I had to stay in Mexico.” It’s a small slip of the tongue, but Trump presumably meant that during his administration, he had remain-in-Mexico policies in place. You and I know that, but some listener might think that Trump was talking about having to stay in Mexico himself for some reason.