Ten Stunning Revelations From the Hour-Plus Interview Between Elon Musk and Don Lemon
The interview confirms that Elon Musk should not be a federal contractor, should not be CEO of any publicly traded company, and should not be controlling satellites and social media platforms in 2024.
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Introduction
Proof is aware that most Americans aren’t going to be willing to listen to Elon Musk speak for an hour, whether it’s with ex-CNN anchor Don Lemon or anyone else.
Nor should they.
Musk is—this Musk biographer has found, in hundreds of hours of listening to and reading him—inarticulate, ill-informed, and irritable in a way that is hard to watch.
So Proof has summarized the key takeaways from the lengthy Lemon-Musk Interview.
Why read such a summary here on Proof? Well, for a few reasons: (1) I’m writing a book on Musk and have thus become a Musk biographer, which gives me a unique perspective on the man; (2) Musk himself reads my work (often with evident anger, as he calls he an “unreadable nonsense machine”) so this analysis is one he’ll almost certainly be reviewing and taking seriously if not, in any sense, accepting as factual; (3) I’m an attorney and was for many years a working trial attorney, which means I review and summarize both depositions and interviews professionally; (4) I’m a former federal criminal investigator as well, which again underscores how seriously I take reviewing depositions and interviews for their most important revelations; (5) I’m a journalist with thirty years of experience working in the field and more than half a decade spent as a journalism professor, so my ethoi with respect to a journalism are well-established; and (6) perhaps the only thing both Proof readers and Proof critics agree on is that I’m an obsessive researcher, so there can be nothing casual about me writing a report like this one.
With that in mind, this Proof report focuses on what is new—and newsworthy—in this new interview, not what’s redundant to statements previously made by Elon Musk.