NYT’s Schleifer: Musk Has a Messiah Complex, He Got Involved in the Trump Campaign Believing He Could Save the Western Civilization

RUSH TRANSCRIPT:
HAYES: “I mean, there’s also just I mean, independently reporting None of the there’s a little bit of like a common sense alarm that goes off in my head about the following. This is an individual who has 5 or 6 companies. He’s running right, the boring company and neuralink and Tesla and spacex, and he’s also running this operation at the government. He’s got a video game system installed in the office that he gets in the lobby, while he’s apparently taking a lot of drugs and is managing a private life that involves like over a dozen children with multiple women, like, at a certain point, it starts to feel like, can he really be doing all this? Actually?”

SCHLEIFER: “Well, I mean, there’s been some credible reporting That he’s not even really playing the video game. So I think that’s an important, important caveat here on the on the Elon Musk resume That could Be the most damaging thing I say today. But look, I mean Musk. Musk clearly is A believer That, you know, there’s in the messiah complex here, right? The reason why he got involved in the Trump campaign is because he believed that he could save western civilization from the problems of illegal immigration and crime, and only he can fix it. You know, he even Said You know, that if he lost in Wisconsin in that judicial race earlier this year, that American western civilization would crumble. The reason why he Is so overextended I think, is related. To the way. He sees. His role in the world, which is if I don’t create Tesla, no one’s going to create Tesla. If I don’t create AI, no one’s going to create AI. And if I don’t save America from crippling deficits and debt, then Donald Trump is cooked. So I you know, the reason why he is, you know, in fact, having so many children based on a reporting is, is in part because of this belief that, you know, he is the type of person who should kind of continue to populate the world. So these things are not just coincidental. He is doing all these things motivated by a core belief in kind of his own power.”