Why is Trump and Musk having a public disagreement?

0:00 Speaker 1 Sunday morning with us as Governor David Patterson, and he’s always with us on a Sunday morning to wrap up the week and tell us where the heck are we, Governor Pattison, tell us where we are?

0:14 Speaker 2 Well, John, I want to go back not to this pass Friday, but the friday before when President Trump greeted Elon Musk on his last day, and they spoke very glowingly of each other, and it seen that there’d been some problems, and I think it was written that a lot of Trump’s staff people were ready for Elon must

0:38 to leave. So it was a parting of the ways, but a pleasant parting of the ways. Well, within three to four days, going back to let’s say, last Tuesday and Wednesday, Musk started speaking out about the beautiful bill that the President wants to pass and his misgivings about the bill, and the criticism was pretty harsh. I mean,

1:02 he wrote, you know, on X kill the bill. And I think that this is a very good example John, of when people from the private sector go into the public sector, they want things to be exactly the way they would be in the private sector. Where is that if you don’t like something, you get rid of people,

1:25 or you don’t you know, like a policy, you just don’t use it in the public sector. You’re answering to a lot of different voices, which is where the President has been over the past week and even as late as this past Thursday. He had a long press conference, but he made it clear that he didn’t understand why

1:50 Musk was responding this way. He said, maybe because it’s affecting his business. But he’s basically saying, we’re going forward and we’re going to pass this bill, which is really what he would have to say after being put in a position that must put him in over the past few days. I just think it’s hilarious that the whole

2:10 country has to wait to see how two individuals work out their differences.

2:16 Speaker 1 Well, there was the rumors around the other day that it was because of what the bill is doing to electric vehicles, which are not really efficient and the batteries blow up. I mean, so what does he want?

2:33 Speaker 2 Yeah, exactly, the easy problem I think was what really set him off. He doesn’t think that the vehicles are as dangerous as everybody else seems to see it that way, And the President talked about that in his press conference on Thursday, and I happen to hear watch the press conference.

2:57 He started talking about how musk a black eye, and I don’t know, I don’t know where that came from, but it is certainly entertaining this week, and far more entertaining, i must say, John, than the debate that was held last Wednesday night between the nine candidates running for the to become mayor of the city starting next year. And

3:25 I was just amazed at how these candidates, you know, they talk about how bold they are, and how active they are, and how aware they are, and all they did was spend their time beating up on Andrew Cormo, which which even the Republican you know consultants said, was just making him look stronger than he would have looked otherwise.

3:53 And I remember myself years ago, John, the first year that they created a position of public advocate, I ran against the a group of people and the winner of that race was Mark Green. But in the debate that we had, because the other candidates were all beating him up, I decided to defend him on a couple of issues,

4:14 and I wound up finishing second, not too far behind him and way ahead of the other candidates. Because for some reason, these people never really have a strategy. They just want to yell and bring up issues that everybody already knows about. And I will say that Cromo stumbled a little bit when he had to keep answering questions

4:34 about why he had to leave office, and also the issue of the nursing homes, which I think. I don’t think he botched the nursing homes as much as he botched the issue because he kept saying these things didn’t happen, and they did happen, and that came back to bite him, and then I don’t think he I think in some situations,

4:55 even when you are the head of an entire state, and I went through this, you have to admit to your own faults. You have to admit to mistakes you made, and he has trouble doing that. But I think he’s going to easily win the primary. And the more you hear zorin Mandani speak, he’s thirty three years old, he’s assemblyman,

5:14 very left and very critical of the governor. But when you hear what his plans are, he can’t even acknowledge that Israel is a Jewish state. He calls it an equal rights state or something like that. But I think that’s what I call the politics of confusion, when you’re trying to not let the public know who you really are.

5:38 Speaker 1 I believe that I watched the debate that evening, and I think Cuomo in the Democratic primary has good leadership qualities and in the we can’t allow a socialist that once to defund the police to become mayor of the city in New York, because that’ll be the end of New York.

6:06 Speaker 2 If you defund the police, if you freeze all the rents that people have.

6:13 Speaker 1 The banks were foreclosed in, all.

6:15 Speaker 2 The buildings, foreclosed the buildings, and you claim that you’re going to have more mudget money from education, Well, if you do those other four or five things, where are you going to have any money for education? In fact, if he looked at his own plan, he’s defunding education, which is but the last thing you’d want to do.

6:38 And I was surprised that one of the other candidates didn’t really press him on that particular issue. But I think that Andrew Cuomo, you know, hopefully learned from whatever you know caused him to have problems a few years ago and will serve the city well. I think I think he’ll win the primary. I don’t. I don’t think

6:57 it will even be that. I think he’ll get the fifty one percent in the.

7:02 Speaker 1 And you need the primary is ranked choice voting that nobody really understands.

7:07 Speaker 2 Is that correct, John, I’m telling you, I think that I could sit down with Albert Einstein and learn nuclear physics before I can understand ranked choice.

7:18 Speaker 1 I’m sitting next to you. I like that too. Now, the normal election on in November is that ranked choice voting or whoever gets the majority.

7:30 Speaker 2 That’s whoever gets the majority, and and and that’s a regular election like we always used to have in November. And what you’ll have is, uh, Cuomo was the Democratic candidate, Eric Adams as an independent candidate, Curtis Leewer as a Republican candidate who was not challenged in the primary, So he has been focusing on on November all the time.

7:56 And then uh, you know, when you have the possibly the Working Families Party or one of the other independent parties might choose Mondani to run. You would have four candidates. But I think the winner of that race will still be Andrew Crmo understood.

8:18 Speaker 1 Governor David Pattison, Thank you, for your input and have a great Sunday and watch out for that Puerto Rican parade. Don’t get run over.

8:31 Speaker 2 That’s right, a lot of people out there. Take care. Take care.