Elon Musk said he used to be “adored” by progressives before he threw his support and money behind President Trump — as he compared the left’s so-called “Trump Derangement Syndrome” to rabies.
The world’s richest man and president sat down for a joint interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity, where Musk reflected on his fall from the left’s graces and his frustration with their inability to engage in “a normal conversation.”
“There’s this whole sort of, you know … they call it like Trump Derangement Syndrome. You don’t realize how real this is until, like — it’s like you can’t reason with people,” he said.
Musk, 53, recalled how he was at a nice, quiet birthday dinner in Los Angeles about a month or two before the presidential election where everything was going fine until he brought up Trump’s name.
“It was like they got shot with a dart in the jugular that contained, like, methamphetamine and rabies,” he joked, mockingly acting out what that would look like.
“Like, guys? You can’t have, like, a normal conversation,” he continued. “It’s like they become completely irrational.”
At another point in the interview, which will air in full on Tuesday night at 9 p.m., Hannity asked Trump, 78, about the left-learning media’s apparent desire to see he and Musk turn on each other in some sort of power struggle.
“Elon called me, he said ‘They’re trying to drive us apart’ and I said ‘absolutely,” Trump said.
“They said, ‘We have breaking news, Donald Trump has ceded control of the presidency to Elon Musk. President Musk will be attending a cabinet meeting tonight at 8 o’clock,’” Trump said, scoffing.
“And I say, it’s just so obvious,” he said of the media’s attempts to derail his relationship with Musk.
Time Magazine recently published a cover featuring Musk sitting behind the president’s White House desk.
“You know what I’ve learned, Elon?” he said, turning to the Tesla and X CEO, “That people are smart. They get it. They really see what’s happening.”
