{"id":2413772,"date":"2025-03-18T20:50:02","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T00:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-calls-musk-critics-people-who-hate-our-country-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2025-03-18T20:50:02","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T00:50:02","slug":"trump-calls-musk-critics-people-who-hate-our-country-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-calls-musk-critics-people-who-hate-our-country-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump calls Musk critics people who \u2018hate our country\u2019 &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-calls-musk-critics-people-who-hate-our-country-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2413772&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - 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You have a rocket ship, handy?&rdquo; Trump said after questioning from Laura Ingraham, the host of the show. &ldquo;How many people have a rocket and Biden left him up? He abandoned them.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Musk, as the de facto head of the Department of Government Efficiency, has faced growing criticisms from Democrats, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/crime\/3351667\/elon-musk-outraged-arson-attack-tesla-las-vegas-terrorism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"vandalism\">vandalism<\/a> against his Tesla stores, and wealth losses related to his efforts to slash the federal workforce and government spending.<\/p>\n<p>Trump alluded to Musk&rsquo;s unpopularity while defending his work to bring back the astronauts. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;They were supposed to be there for a few days. They were there for many months, and now they&rsquo;re coming back,&rdquo; Trump said. &ldquo;But think of it. Elon is able to do that with his genius, and you have people that hate it. And I really believe these are people that hate our country. It&rsquo;s a big problem.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Elon is a patriot,&rdquo; Trump also said of the tech billionaire.<\/p>\n<p>Trump also agreed with Ingraham&rsquo;s questioning that the recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/crime\/3351667\/elon-musk-outraged-arson-attack-tesla-las-vegas-terrorism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">spats of vandalism<\/a> against Musk&rsquo;s Tesla facilities are acts of domestic terrorism. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I think so,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I think that if and when they catch the people, and I hope they do, the good thing is they have a lot of cameras in those places, and they&rsquo;ve caught some already having to do with that. I think that you will find out that they&rsquo;re paid by people that are very highly political on the Left.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3351860\/trump-reveals-speaking-putin-weeks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">an earlier interview<\/a> with the <em>Washington Examiner&rsquo;s<\/em> Byron York, Trump touted an energy and infrastructure agreement with Russian President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/vladimir-putin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Vladimir Putin<\/a>&nbsp;that will lead to an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/3351282\/trump-putin-ceasefire-negotiations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">immediate ceasefire<\/a> with Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Trump later told Ingraham he had a &ldquo;great&rdquo; call with Putin but they didn&rsquo;t discuss the U.S. continuing aid for the beleaguered Ukraine.  <\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3351860\/trump-reveals-speaking-putin-weeks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">TRUMP REVEALS HE HAS BEEN SPEAKING TO PUTIN FOR WEEKS AS HE HAILS ENERGY AND INFRASTRUCTURE CEASEFIRE AGREEMENT<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We didn&rsquo;t talk about aid. Actually, we didn&rsquo;t talk about aid at all. We talked about a lot of things, but aid was never discussed,&rdquo; he said. <\/p>\n<p>Trump again pushed back on claims that he was too favorable to Russia, saying, &ldquo;There&rsquo;s nobody been tougher on Russia than me.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_2043825\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"2043825\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump calls Musk critics people who \u2018hate our country\u2019 President Donald Trump defended top ally Elon Musk\u2019s efforts to return two stranded NASA astronauts during a Tuesday evening interview with Fox News\u2019s\u00a0The Ingraham Angle. 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