When’s the last time anyone remembers the President of the United States calling an audible in the form of an impromptu press conference? Well, that’s what happened on Tuesday afternoon. And President Trump went on to do something even cooler. I’ll get to that in a minute.
As you may have seen earlier, my colleague Teri Christoph shared Trump’s remarks, which mainly focused on the administration’s negotiations team, led by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, seeking to broker a peace deal between Ukraine and Russia.
Things took a very different route during the Q and A, when a reporter tried to once again pit President Trump against DOGE director, Elon Musk:
REPORTER: In a court filing, the White House said that Elon Musk is not a DOGE employee, and has no authority to make decisions. Can you clarify for us what that role is?
After answering that he considers Musk “a patriot,” whatever label you choose to call him otherwise, the president started pulling out notes, which he asked staffers for, “just in case” a member of the White House pool asked him about Musk and DOGE.
He said he was surprised that he didn’t get a question like this sooner in the presser, then admitted that “Ukraine is a bigger deal,” with the number of lives lost in the war with Russia. Here, though, was where the coolest part happened–as he schooled the gaggle of reporters on what exactly Elon Musk has been doing. […]
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