During a panel discussion on CNN’s Inside Politics, host Dana Bash introduced a bit of audio from the recent conversation between Elon Musk and Donald Trump that was edited to sound as if the two were downplaying the seriousness of nuclear bombs.
“I wanna play one exchange that was kind of classic. Well, there were a lot of exchanges that were classic Donald Trump, but this one really stuck out to us,” Bash told CNN panelists.
“Hiroshima and Nagasaki were bombed, but now they’re, they’re like full cities again,” Musk said at the start of CNN’s clip.
“Right, well, that’s great,” Trump responded.
“So, it’s really not something that, you know—” Musk continued.
“That’s great,” Trump said.
“So it’s, it’s not as scary as people think basically,” Musk said, concluding CNN’s clip.
“So that was more Elon Musk than Donald Trump talking about, sort of suggesting that what happened almost 80 years ago, 80 years ago next year, the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, now it’s okay, um, trying to kind of blow off the impact of that,” Bash said.
The unedited audio reveals the conversation was actually about nuclear energy and the branding around the word “nuclear.”
“Maybe they’ll have to change the name! The name is the rough thing. There are some areas, like when you see what happen – we’ll have to rebrand it. We’ll have to give it a nickname. We’ll name it after you or something,” Trump told Musk.
“When you see what happened in Japan, where they say, ‘You won’t be able to go on the land for about 3,000 years,’ did you ever see that? And in Russia, where they had the problem. Where they had a lot of bad things happen. And they have a problem. And they say in 2,000 years, people will start to occupy the land again. You know, you realize it’s pretty bad,” Trump continued.
“It’s actually not that bad, like, after Fukushima happened in Japan, people were asking me in California, you know, are we worried about the nuclear plant in Japan. I’m like, no, that’s crazy. It’s actually, it’s not even dangerous in Fukushima.”
Bash conceded, after the deceptive clip, that the two were discussing nuclear energy.
“There they were having a conversation about nuclear energy,” Bash told CNN panelists. “They did have substantive conversations about it, and what Trump said – well, first of all, I want you to react to this. What Trump was talking about there was that nuclear energy has a branding problem. He’s not wrong.”
Watch the clips below:
WATCH: Fake news CNN selectively edited President @realDonaldTrump and @elonmusk's conversation last night to claim they said that the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings were not a big problem.
The full context shows they were talking about nuclear energy.
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