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Mr. Sparkle

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Thu Mar 20, 2025, 08:47 AM Mar 2025

Commerce Secretary Urges Fox News Viewers To Buy Tesla Stock: 'Elon Musk Is Probably the Best Person To Bet On!' [View all]

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick urged Fox News viewers to buy Tesla stock, calling CEO Elon Musk “probably the best person to bet on” he had ever met. Lutnick offered the investment advice on Wednesday’s episode of Jesse Watters Primetime after host Jesse Watters had delivered a long monologue criticizing the vandalism of Tesla vehicles, dealerships, and charging stations, and protests directed at the company and Musk over his support for far-right politics and wide-ranging budget cuts and layoffs that were happening as part of DOGE’s efforts to reshape the federal government.

Watters introduced Lutnick and asked him, “How are you interpreting firebombing Teslas?” “This is so outrageous,” replied Lutnick. “You probably have the best entrepreneur, the best technologist, best leader of any set of companies in America, working for America, and you have this sort of weird side of the Democratic Party attacking him.”

“Let me remind you, he is the guy that saved the astronauts, saved the astronauts and he’s the guy who’s going to build the next generation technology,” Lutnick added, presumably referring to NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore, who returned to Earth Tuesday after a nine-month delay on the International Space Station. Williams and Wilmore’s extra time on the ISS and return has been the subject of a surfeit of misinformation from Musk and the White House, including false claims that President Joe Biden “stranded” them.

“I think if you want to learn something on this show tonight, buy Tesla!” Lutnick continued. “It’s unbelievable that this guy’s stock is this cheap, it’ll never be this cheap again. When people understand the things he’s building, the robots he’s building, the technology he’s building — people will be dreaming of today and Jesse Watters and thinking, ‘gosh, I should have bought Elon Musk’s stock!’ I mean, who wouldn’t invest in Elon Musk? You gotta be kidding.” “Alright, so you’re calling the bottom? This is it?” asked Watters.

more... https://www.mediaite.com/tv/commerce-secretary-lutnick-urges-fox-news-viewers-to-buy-tesla-stock-elon-musk-is-probably-the-best-person-to-bet-on/

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Because its not a conflict of interest at all for this guy to be saying this, right? Scrivener7 Mar 2025 #1
He broke all kinds of rules and laws here. They couldn't care less. Walleye Mar 2025 #3
Yep. Who's going to do anything about it? We have a 34 time felon for president. Scrivener7 Mar 2025 #4
Tens of thousands of American workers work for Tesla competitors Prairie Gates Mar 2025 #20
Most Americans just want security and consistency. We are not reckless, gamblers, or liars or cheats. Walleye Mar 2025 #2
Regardless of what the election results were, most Americans would like an end to this walkingman Mar 2025 #9
The Tesla brand is tanking worldwide. Buy his stock Fox viewers! GusBob Mar 2025 #5
I hear the ghost of Kenny Boy Lay... Kid Berwyn Mar 2025 #7
"With every Tesla sold, we get a kickback, er, rebate!" Kid Berwyn Mar 2025 #6
"He is the guy that saved the astronauts..." sop Mar 2025 #8
Biggest sleazeball in the WH newdeal2 Mar 2025 #10
Remember!!! We can't hate people like this! We need to empathize and reach out and meet them in the middle!! hatrack Mar 2025 #11
You don't ever buy any vehicle new or used from this asshole dalton99a Mar 2025 #12
Heh. dchill Mar 2025 #13
Billionaire helps Billionaire Hurt American Citizens nt delisen Mar 2025 #14
"Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power." sinkingfeeling Mar 2025 #15
I'm guessing this would have been some kind of ethics/legal violation Mysterian Mar 2025 #16
Yes, the correct qualifier is "back when ethics and legality mattered" Prairie Gates Mar 2025 #18
File under "Picking winners and losers" Prairie Gates Mar 2025 #17
How much have you bought? How much have you sold? Norrrm Mar 2025 #19
Fuck Musk and his apartheid politics. Johonny Mar 2025 #21
How times have changed. Remember awhile ago the righties were doing "rolling coal" Liberal In Texas Mar 2025 #22
Buy stock?!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 sheshe2 Mar 2025 #23
MaddowBlog-Why is Trump's Commerce secretary urging the public to buy Tesla stock? LetMyPeopleVote Mar 2025 #24
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