The Hill reports on Sean Hannity’s joint interview with Musk and Trump:

Trump had high praise for Musk throughout the interview, highlighting his successful tech career and his intelligence.

The president noted he was impressed with Musk when he saw Musk’s team had the ability to catch a rocket booster instead of having it crash into the ocean.

“Something that had an effect on me was when I saw the rocket ship come back and get grabbed like you grab a beautiful little baby. You grab your baby … you can’t really have a rocket program if you’re going to dump $1 billion into the ocean every time you fly. You have to save it, and he saved it,” Trump said.

He added that Russia and China don’t have anything comparable to Musk’s rocket program.

In the interview, the president also credited Musk as a major key toward implementing the dozens of executive orders he has signed since taking office.

“You write a beautiful executive and you sign it, you assume it’s going to be done, but it’s not,” Trump said, adding that Musk works with “100 geniuses” at DOGE to implement his agenda.

“He’s got some very brilliant young people working for him that dress much worse than him, actually,” Trump joked. “They dress in just T-shirts. You wouldn’t know they have 180 IQ. … But he gets it done. He’s a leader. He gets it done.” [Continue reading…]