Meyers Calls Out the Most Damning Part of Trump’s Elon Musk Chat

Seth Meyers was baffled by a lot of moments from Donald Trump’s recent speeches on the economy—but most of all by Trump’s attempt to frame himself as the pro-working class candidate.

“Republicans want to make this election about the economy,” Meyers noted, “but they’re fighting uphill against the fact that voters see them as the party of Wall Street, country clubs, and corporate bosses.”

Case in point: Trump’s X interview with Elon Musk. As Meyers explained, “Trump and Vance have cynically tried to rebrand the GOP as a populist, pro-worker party, but Trump threw all that out the window on Monday during his live stream with Elon Musk, when he caused an uproar by praising Musk for firing employees who go on strike, which is against the law.”

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