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'IT SOUNDS LIKE A COMEDY SKETCH!': Trump, Musk Shred Ridiculous USAID Spending in Exclusive Hannity Interview [WATCH]

posted by Hannity Staff - 2.19.25

The American taxpayer isn’t laughing…

During Tuesday night’s Hannity exclusive, President Donald Trump and DOGE head Elon Musk took a blowtorch to the wasteful — and almost comedically unbelievable waste of the USAID.

Hannity scrolled millions of dollars worth of woke programs on screen as the pair discussed recent federal audits.

“They try to obscure it, but then you got to the bottom line, which is what I’m now scrolling on the screen: 20 million on a Sesame Street show in Iraq; 56 million to boost tourism in Tunisia and Egypt; 40 million to build schools in Jordan; 11 million to tell the Vietnamese to stop burning trash; 45 million for DEI scholarships in Burma; 520 million for consultant-driven ESG investments in Africa; DEI programs in Serbia,” Hannity said, listing just a few of USAID’s projects.

“It sounds like ‘how can these things be real?'” Musk chimed in. “It’s almost like a comedy sketch but this is what’s going on,” he continued, adding that the goal is to get a trillion dollars out of the deficit.

“The massive waste and abuse that has been going on that has been leading to a two trillion dollar deficit is insane,” Musk said.

“They spent money like nobody’s ever spent,” Trump said. “They were given 9 trillion dollars to throw out the window and they spent it on the green new scam.”

Trump and Musk agree that DOGE will find a trillion dollars worth of waste to cut but that it will ultimately only be a small percentage of the overall waste the government has gotten used to running on.

Watch the clip above.

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