Don Lemon's TRAINWRECK Elon Musk Interview

hey everyone me Kevin here oh my gosh I

just watched the Don Lemon versus Elon

Musk interview and it was a versus I I

don't blame Elon for being pissed about

this interview we're going to go through

it in detail here I'm going to be as

unbiased and neutral as possible but oh

Don there were some issues with this

interview style I'm going to explain

those from a fact-based point of view

keep in mind there's been a lot of drama

going into this interview Elon Musk

apparently cancelled uh some form of

exclusivity contract for Don Lemon that

was being negotiated Don Lemon

apparently was demanding an $8 million

salary private jet trips to vegus

massages and drinks being paid for day

drinks being paid for who knows we we

don't know the full scope of this

negotiation Don Lemon did say that Elon

Musk was trying to woo him so we're not

sure was Da demanding those things did

he suggest things that Elon was open to

doing we have we really no idea but what

we do know is what we can see and that

is the dawn Lemon versus Elon Musk

interview and again in this video I'm

going to give you a summary of all of it

so let's just get into it first uh Giga

Texas was the fastest construction uh

construction rather since World War II

uh and X is a useful platform for

realtime news this is kind of how we get

started kind of really starting on some

basic observations here okay but then

things like literally three bullet

points in get awkward elon's like you

know the thing about X is we want people

from all points of view we've got people

like Tucker more on the right Fox News

on the right CNN on the left Dawn goes

why would you say that that CNN is on

the left and

Elon what like who doesn't think CNN

leads left and I think we can of course

say that is very much the mainstream

opinion that CNN is going to have a left

lean I I think we could say that with

almost certainty of course we can't say

with 100% certainty because I'm sure

there are some people at CNN that are

trying to be as unbiased as possible

Right but let's be clear they have their

tilts so this was a really weird way to

start an interview trying to essentially

debate something off the start that like

bro like a who cares and B why why are

we starting out arguing about this so

elon's like uh am I missing something

here anyway we get into record usage on

X that advertisers are coming back to X

the problem is before Elon says 99% of

donations by Twitter employees were to

the left and that ended up leading to

what he believes a censorship tilt that

10x outweighed the level of censorship

against those on the right and he thinks

that's unfair he doesn't stand for

censorship and instead says look we

should just treat the law the way it is

whatever the law says we should do we

should do Don lemon's interview style

starts out very 20 questions esque I

actually think he's hurt by having these

Q cards or flash cards because it makes

the interview feel less uh casual and

more like a confrontational

interrogation so I think advice to Don

Lemon get rid of the Q cards sometimes I

go into an interview with an iPad and

that's mostly because sometimes when

people are sharing their ideas they can

go off into many different tangents in

the span of one response and so I like

to kind of write down what people are

saying so I can build on what they're

saying but going in with prepped like I

might have topics written down but going

in with prepped Q cards okay we got to

get through all this stuff it creates

rapid fire it creates interrogation it

creates confrontation I don't think this

is a really good idea it wasn't a good

way for Don Lemon to show the world hey

come do an interview with me it's a

little intense let's just say and I'm

not saying Elon can't handle intensity

and not here to say oh he's a baby can't

handle it it's just it's just not very

productive it hurts the actual outcome

of the interview when somebody can't

share the free flow of ideas because

maybe there's a time pressure and you

got to get through all your Q cards

anyway Elon says cybertruck is a once a

decade uh product the Tesla Roadster

that uh will be announced in the future

which we've already heard of in the past

will be a quote collaboration between

SpaceX and Tesla Don says flying car

Elon kind of kind of goes maybe he's

sort of playing with this here and it

says look it'll have some rocket

technology it won't really have wings or

propellers but it will have wheels and a

Yol so uh that information has kind of

already been known that we're looking at

the next Road s to be 0 to 60 in less

than one second it's really the idea of

can you floor it and get rocket

propelled to where you get this sort of

instantaneous movement to speed and then

the vehicle takes over speed we've

already known that so this wasn't really

a groundbreaking drop Elon says he likes

to play video games specifically Diablo

he sees video games as player versus

environment and Twitter as player versus

player PVP now that's really interesting

because for me personally I actually

don't like PVE I'm a big fan of PVP in

video games whether it's roster World of

Warcraft RuneScape though I will say I

did also like PVE questing and my

dailies and wow love dailies anyway and

I don't play anymore well wow that is

anyway Elon says he's almost always

sober that he doesn't drink much he does

however take a ketamine prescription and

he believes that's very useful for

getting out of a negative state of mind

and that people should consider talking

to their doctor about ketamine which is

a regulated drug known for helping

resolve medical issues he does say that

it's rare for him to take a day off

maybe uh he'll use ketamine once every

few weeks but sometimes he'll go several

without and ultimately what matters for

Wall Street is execution and he's going

to focus on executing then we get into

the Electoral College there's sort of a

debate over here Elon says look the

Electoral College amplifies blue States

Don Lemon says no it amplifies small

states which could be red States Elon

says look all I'm saying is that illegal

immigrants are counted in the census

fact check this is true all people are

counted in the census in fact the state

of Connecticut has a piece out on their

website that says the census counts

every person living in the country

citizens non-citizens and those in

holding permanent resident cards

excluding The Immigrant population even

illegal uh from the uh desial Census

count only cheats them out of the

resources and representation they

deserve or entitled to okay obviously

this is going to create a lot of debate

a lot of people don't think that illegal

immigrants are entitled to AB here

because H illegal uh or are entitled to

resources so there's a debate here but

if the census counts illegal immigrants

then yes it can actually boost the

number of House Seats a state has that

caters potentially to illegal immigrants

for example right now we have about

761,00

residents per house seat in Congress I

believe Elon is trying to reference a

Fox News article for memory here I found

it I've linked it all including this

full summary over at ec.com

ec.com that's where I just myself and my

team we post our sort of free uh

research we try to be as unbiased as

possible I really never want somebody to

think of eack as oh there's a tilt in

fact I love it when people are debating

like he's right he's left he's right

he's left it's like ah I'm getting an

equal amount on both sides Yes again I'm

really just trying to provide facts

because I'm I'm sort of married to the

idea of fact finding I I love it I find

it so entertaining I I much like Elon

love the truth now that doesn't mean I

don't think that Elon can sometimes do

some things that are a little Shyer but

then again everybody does okay so uh now

as far as this argument over uh the

Electoral College Don Lemon I think

makes another interview mistake here and

there okay so Q carts was Interview

mistake number one with peppering

questions right interview mistake number

two passive aggressive they're debating

about the Electoral College and then

what does uh um Don Lemon do he does

this okay well I don't think you're

right next question and starts reading

the next question I'm like whoa whoa

whoa whoa whoa whoa you can't just like

you could let somebody speak and then

move on but to say to let somebody speak

and then go well I think you're wrong

let's move on

ah it's it's a very aggressive style I

would recommend that Don Lemon change

that as soon as possible no Q cards

chill man let people talk sometimes

people get mad at me for not like

countering people in interviews no no no

no no the time to do that is separately

and you could slightly you know move

people into the direction of deeper

curiosity but getting mad just makes

people want to cut the interview short

like Elon does twice we'll talk about

that in just a moment uh and uh

ultimately the viewer ends up with less

perspective from the person so you're

net losing that way anyway Elon says

Democrats have the incentive to let

immigrants in and uh then we get into

talking about sort of great replacement

Theory Elon says the media is a terrible

judge of character Dawn then tries to go

down this rabbit hole which he almost

does for the rest of the interview which

is why I didn't really like this

interview it's like well don't you have

a responsibility to moderate the truth

and what Don's really setting up isy hey

you're a big powerful person with a big

social media platform isn't it incumbent

upon you to moderate the truth and make

sure we don't have racism and hate

speech in the country and elon's like

look I care that's why we have Community

notes we care about the truth but we're

only going to take things down to are

illegal that's not going to change the

fact that the internet is full of hate

speech just play Rust and you'll see

hate speech all the time and a lot of

spite that game is the definition of

spite Elon then gets into look you agree

with censorship I don't agree with

censorship you can't shut down the

internet Don says no I want you to take

responsibility and then Elon says fine

then change the law Don says well there

should be guardrails Elon argues then

change the law it's a good point it's a

very clear stance from Elon and you have

to respect it look we follow the law if

you want more than the law change the

law it's not a bad argument it's a

really good argument for free speech by

Elon here I don't think you can poop on

Elon for this one however Don keeps

going next we get into diversity equity

and inclusion and there's this

discussion that basically if you take

people who have lower medical test

scores you might end up causing more

death and malpractice in the medical

field because you're trying to promote

diversity rather than higher test scores

this comes from a discussion that's been

circulating for a while there's actually

a Wall Street Journal piece on this it's

called the National Institute for health

sacrifices scientific rigor for

diversity equity and inclusion that is

an oped so it is an opinion piece but in

it they'd say that Cornell University

along with Berkeley and other

universities emphasize their applicants

quote contribution to diversity and that

people will receive significant or sorry

that their Dei statements quote will

receive significant weight in the

evaluation and that you uh penalize

applicants who espouse colorblind

equality and ultimately give lower test

or give ultimately lower applicant

scores to those who want to treat

everyone the same with equality

okay there's some really big problems

here that we really have to kind of

break apart first of all it's it's

unclear if we can say with certainty

that people are getting into uh medical

positions with lower scores we cannot

say that with

certainty but it is implied when it's

when when you say that you are going to

give significant weight to somebody's

Dei statement over somebody and you

actually penalize somebody so you give

somebody bonus for a good Dei statement

and penalize them for saying they want

equality what you're doing is you're

creating a wedge that could overstep

somebody else's slightly lower test

scores so let's say somebody gets a 90

and somebody else gets an 87 it is

possible that the person with the 87

gets accepted while it's still good it's

not the 90 it's not the a because they

had a better Dei score now that is

strongly implied it is strongly implied

that it's happening I want to be clear

it probably is happening

can I say with 100% certainty it's

happening no because of course there's

always a small percentage chance that

it's not happening I think it probably

is though when you have statements like

this now Don does hit on this he says

there's no evidence of lowering

standards yes Don can be right here but

Elon can also be right it can be correct

that if we do lower standards more

people could die yes that is true there

is no evidence of lowering standards

that is also possibly true both of these

could be true but that doesn't actually

make either of them da or Elon wrong and

this is a lot of what we have the entire

interview is whether it's DA's questions

or elon's responses they're kind of both

on their own soapbox talking to their

own audience it's like Elon Musk is

talking over here to his audience he

likes censorship and Don lemon's over

here going he's a racist and and

everybody's kind of cheering their own

leader as opposed to them having a

conversation it really felt like uh each

person had a megaphone just appealing to

their side Without Really Trying to

bridge though I will say I

think given that Elon was the one having

to answer the questions here he did

really well at getting through this

one-hour long interview he did really

well at that uh now and he did try to

push it along we'll talk about that in

just a moment now uh so uh then Don says

shouldn't you fact check something

before you post on Twitter something

that isn't true or on X Elon says well

other people fact check me that's a cop

out on Elon so I have to say that's bad

Elon you can't do that if you if if you

think something's wrong maybe go A Step

Beyond just to check it before you post

it or if you're not sure if something's

right maybe go a step further don't rely

on people to comment reply that would be

like saying I'll just make whatever

videos I want on YouTube and I'll spout

whatever BS I want because people will

just fact check me no no no no no no I

think that the first responsibility

should be up on the user and it could

then be further substantiated or fact

checked by others

uh Elon says diversity equity and

inclusion could become an issue if we do

lower standards I agree uh and I think

everybody agrees with this Don then goes

into talking about why are there fewer

black and fewer female Pilots uh and

Elon says look I'm not here to argue

that uh the why there are fewer uh black

or why there are fewer female Pilots or

doctors all Elon is saying we should

just treat everybody the same going

forward yes there's been racism in

history at some point every country was

probably racist and Elon goes as far as

saying at some point everybody was a

slave at some point or the descendant of

some form of slave I don't think Elon

here is trying to offend uh the black

community or any particular Community I

think elon's just like let's just focus

on going forward rather than having this

argument so don is arguing on his

soapbox systemic racism is bad elon's

like yes it's bad but let's focus on

going forward so again arguing two

different things Elon says just focus on

people's skills and talents that's it

don't try to blame everything on race

and gender in fact goes as far as saying

that is unfair make life about people

not about race and

gender i h hands off to Elon on that one

absolutely Don goes into well I've been

discriminated against and elon's like

well but you're successful okay none of

this matters none of this matters okay

just because Don may be is successful

and in some you know in the way some

people view him uh great and just

because Elon successful uh you know like

these are case studies that don't matter

what matters is broadly do people have

equal opportunity and look I think there

are fair arguments to say no people

don't have equal opportunity you could

say hey look in the 1950s uh a black

child that was raised by a poor family

is probably going to have a lower chance

at actually becoming a doctor or a pilot

because they don't have the money or

resources to train or get educated to

achieve at the levels that are required

so yes you can argue structural racism

okay so that doesn't change elon's

argument though that let's treat

everybody equally going forward that's

elon's argument Boeing comes up Boeing

comes up as uh basically this piece of

like hey why are they promoting Dei

almost every company is promoting Dei

this is true though if you do look at

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21st to 23rd okay let's look at that

Boeing piece right here Boeing's

aspirations oh those are my notes sorry

that's the wrong button there we go

right here uh boeings aspirations this

is under their Dei section so it's only

about Dei but as you can see they have

very clear Dei aspirations increase

black representation achieve parity and

retention rates up across all groups you

know you don't see anything here about

having lower standards these are just

goals that they have I don't necessarily

think it's wrong for them to have these

goals as long as the standards aren't

changed for safety at Boeing especially

the disasters that Boeing has been going

through uh have been going through

Boeing has been going through the

disaster that well they have had a lot

of disasters what ever I'm lost on the

grammar there uh anyway Elon then says

look you're upsetting me with the way

you're phrasing questions if we're

bringing free speech and we make less

money so be it but choose your questions

carefully we have 5 minutes left you can

choose to adverti next to whatever you

want on Twitter or X you have the

opportunity to choose with the tools we

have at X this is a fair response from

Elon Don says where does your intensity

come from Elon says I was born that way

only a couple minutes left one or two

questions left on he goes look I'm I'm

not trying to upset you elon's like look

I got to go I got a room of people

waiting for me he's so over this he's so

over this and Elon ends with look my

goal is to extend Consciousness make

life multiplanetary I've made many

mistakes and if I had a time machine I'd

go back and fix them good job Elon I

think great job Elon big interview

Mistakes by Don Lemon Let's summarize it

get rid of the Q cards stop peppering

your people but when when you're

interviewing okay that's that's number

one number two you can't cut people off

with your opinion number three big

mistake we get it you believe there's

structural racism but trying to Goa Elon

into trying to you know imply or even

suggest that he's racist or or focusing

this whole interview about Dei and race

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