Matt Locke - Host & Republican Strategist Joins Houston's Morning News

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Yeah, a little sour grapes maybe for Elon Musk six
twenty three years of their time. Matt Lock joins his
host and Republican strategist. What do you think led to
all this? Matt? I mean, you take a look at
the evidence, and I just think Elon's frustrated or became
frustrated by what he could and couldn't do with the
federal government.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
Well. Yeah, he was asked to do a very a
very minute task or I shouldn't say my new but
a very specific task for finding waste, fraud and abuse.
You find it, Congress doesn't do anything with it. I
think i'd be upset too.

Speaker 1 (00:34):
Okay, But do you think that maybe he didn't find
as much as he thought he would or thought he
would have a little bit more control over eliminating some
of that stuff. I don't.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
I don't know the back workings of it, but I
would honestly think he probably found more than they wanted
him to. Government's a really weird instrument or animal in
all of this. And when you start pulling on threads
of NGOs and USAID and fraud and waste of the
people who have been in power and law is to
run our government. I think he got I think someone

(01:03):
told Trump, look, let's let's set this aside.

Speaker 1 (01:05):
We don't need all of this, okay, So you know,
that would make sense, and that would explain at least
a little bit about why Elon Musk would be mythed Trump.
Of course, there's some other stories that if he had
a guy he wanted to see become the head of
NASA who didn't get the job, and he was upset
by that, he might have been a little upset by
the by the Big Beautiful Bill, the Big abomination Bills

(01:27):
he would like to call it, because it didn't it
didn't cut waste as much as he hoped it would,
but maybe more importantly, it took away some ev tax
credits that his company relies on.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
You know, everybody's making this out to be I think
financially for Elon, but the dude's worth like four hundred
and fifty billion dollars. I don't think money motivates him.
I think in the end, I think Elon sees that
if America is not around, he doesn't have the ability
to get to Mars. I think he is infatuated or

(01:58):
he's honed in on actually using SpaceX to do what
he said he's gonna do, and that's get to Mars
and colonize Mars and do that stuff. If America falls,
if it's not here, then he doesn't have the ability
to do that. I think that's a lot of what
I think motivates him.

Speaker 1 (02:12):
Okay, So do you think that he and Trump kiss
and make up at some point or what.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
I do? I mean? I do? I mean if you
go back in history to Alexander Hamilton and John Adams,
they were two very hardheaded, two very intelligent men who
fought a lot, but in the end died very close friends.
So I think that the friendship of Elon Musk and
Donald Trump wins in the end.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
Okay, So you think that the friendship is legitimate, that
they their relationship began on an honest assessment of who
they were, and they actually appreciated each other, not necessarily
for politics, but for who they were as people.

Speaker 2 (02:48):
Well, absolutely, And you saw all the pictures of you know,
Elon's little boy running around with Trump and getting on
Marine one, and I think there was a very legitimate
relationship there that did for him on who they were.
You know, Muster is a brilliant guy.

Speaker 1 (03:01):
He just goes about it a different.

Speaker 2 (03:02):
Way, you know, being with you know where he's at
on whatever scale of autism that he has. He's just
a different guy, sees things different ways. I think Trump
really did enjoy his company. I think in the end
they come back.

Speaker 1 (03:14):
Together for the good of America. We shall see. Thank you, sir,
appreciate it. Badlock host and Republican strategists