Elon Musk Discusses Tesla and SpaceX

And now people are driving around with stickers in their cars saying, "I bought

this before we knew Elon was crazy."

And there, there are also people who are buy- buying it because, uh,

Elon's crazy or however they may view it.

Do you see yourself, and are you committed to still being the chief

executive of

Tesla in five years' time?

Yes.

No doubt about that at all?

Well,

no, I might die.

Okay, short of that. Just-

I can't be of... I can't be CEO if I'm dead, so- ...

there's a slight amount of doubt. Not a judge. Not a judge.

The activist who is cosplaying a judge in a Halloween costume.

Mm.

Now let's move on.

Okay. Well, just one question.

Now let's move on.

Well,

what-

Firing bullets into sh- showrooms and burning down cars is unacceptable.

Yeah.

Those people will go to prison, and the people that funded them

and organized them

will also go to prison. Don't worry-

But wouldn't you-

... we're coming for you.

Wouldn't, wouldn't you-

Do you see SpaceX moving into weaponized drones?

You certainly ask interesting questions, uh, that are impossible to

answer. Um,

I, I, I don't currently anticipate SpaceX

getting, getting into the weapons

business. Um, that's certainly... It's not an aspiration.

We're, we're frequen- we're frequently asked, uh, to do,

to do weapons

programs, but we have thus far declined.

Now I'm in this absurd situation where I was born in South Africa but cannot get a

license to operate in Starlink because I'm not Black.

Well, it looks like that's about-

Does that seem right to you?

Look, it looks, looks like that-

Does that seem right to you?

Looks like that's about to change.

I just asked you a question. Please answer. Does

that seem right to you?

Well, those rules were designed to bring-

Does that seem right to you? Yes or no?

Those rules were designed to bring about an era of more economic

equality in South Africa, and it looks like the government has

found a way around those rules for you.

I asked you a question.

This is, this is your interview. Everyone wants to hear from you.

I asked you a question. Yes or no? I mean, I, I feel you're somewhat trapped in

the, uh, NPC dialogue tree of a traditional vir-

uh,

journalist. So it's difficult when tr- when I'm conversing with someone who's

trapped in the dialogue tree of a conventional journalist, because it's like

talking to a computer. Um, so-

Uh, and, and I'm just in-

... also, wh- wh- who does, who does Bill Gates think he

is to make comments about

the welfare of children given that he is...

he, he frequented Jeffrey Epstein?

Okay, well-

Okay. What about political influence beyond the

US?

How often do you speak to President Putin?

I don't speak to President Putin.

You've never spoken to President Putin?

Um, I, I was on a video call with him once about

five years ago.

Okay. That's the only, that's the only time-

Oh, why wouldn't I speak to Pres- President Putin?

Oh, oh, you must... Oh, I get it.

Because I've heard you speak-

You believe the legacy media.

Actually, I've heard you-

That's why. Is, is, is there a worse publication on the face

of the earth than The

Wall Street Journal?

Um, that, that, that newspaper is the worst newspaper in the

world