Former President Donald Trump suggested that Elon Musk, the CEO of X, Space X, and Tesla, may potentially hold various positions in a future administration.
“You know, the new head of a place called Argentina, and he’s a big, you know, he’s great. And he’s a big MAGA fan, you know that he ran on MAGA. And he took it to an extreme, too. He ran on MAGA, and I hear he’s doing really a terrific job. It’s called Make Argentina Great Again. It worked out perfectly,” Trump said.
“And Argentina overnight is experiencing a giant improvement in prosperity. But it’s also a lesson for the United States, which is that Argentina used to be one of the most prosperous countries in the 30s, 40s, and because of bad government policy, it ruined the country. And if you take Venezuela, for example, Venezuela should be incredibly prosperous. They have, you know, phenomenal reserves of everything, oil, everything, and it should be prosperous, but if the government’s wrong, it impoverishes the people,” he continued. “And so, I think we should not be complacent in the United States in thinking that and taking our prosperity for granted because if with bad government policy we can run the country into the ground.”
Musk subsequently interjected to emphasize that Americans should not assume prosperity is a given, prompting Trump to redirect the conversation towards the Department of Education.
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“So we’re ranked at the bottom of every list of the top 40. We’re ranked number 40, number 38 Norway, Switzerland, Sweden, different countries are ranked good. Actually China’s pretty close to the top. They’re a top six or seven. But we’re ranked at the bottom, almost at the bottom, 38, 39, 40,” he said.
“In other words, horrible. And yet we spend more per pupil than any other country in the world. So we spend more. And what I’m going to do, one of the first acts, and this is where I need an Elon Musk, I need somebody that has a lot of strength and courage and smarts. I want to close up Department of Education, move education back to the states where states, like Iowa, where states like Idaho, you know, not every state will do great because states that basically aren’t doing good now,” Trump said.
Then, while Musk supported his idea, he pointed out that educational standards are falling in areas like California and others.
