CNN’s Kasie Hunt isn’t any fan of Elon Musk, and he or she wastes no alternative to make that clear to viewers. As fill-in host on CNN’s State of the Union, she fretted whether or not Elon’s new internet price subsequent to the latest SpaceX IPO was “an indication of American decline.”
Watch as she teased the panel section in these precise phrases:
WATCH: Famous @elonmusk hater Kasie Hunt of CNN frets over whether or not his post-SpaceX IPO internet price is “an indication of American decline”
KASIE HUNT: Elon Musk simply grew to become the world’s first trillionaire so, after all, an indication of American ingenuity. However are we additionally experiencing American… pic.twitter.com/dmK7S7gJ3D
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) June 15, 2026
KASIE HUNT: Elon Musk simply grew to become the world’s first trillionaire so, after all, an indication of American ingenuity. However are we additionally experiencing American decline? That’s subsequent.
Her introduction to the panel section was worse. Hunt questioned whether or not Elon’s new standing is consultant of a brand new Gilded Age, went straight to class warfare, and principally wishcast that Bernie Sanders now start railing towards trillionaires.
WATCH: CNN’s Kasie Hunt frets that Elon Musk’s newly added wealth is consultant of a brand new Gilded Age, and calls on Bernie Sanders to now harangue trillionaires
ELIZABETH WARREN: Elon Musk is formally the world’s first trillionaire. Take into consideration that. We’re dwelling in a time… pic.twitter.com/ewSAmlva7H
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) June 15, 2026
ELIZABETH WARREN: Elon Musk is formally the world’s first trillionaire. Take into consideration that. We’re dwelling in a time when increasingly individuals are simply hanging on by their fingernails to outlive on this financial system. And Elon Musk has extra money and extra wealth than anybody in human historical past.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
KASIE HUNT: Completely eye-popping amount of cash, the world’s first trillionaire.
The query that I maintain coming again to is whether or not we in America are experiencing a second Gilded Age. The primary one, after all, induced in the end backlash that gave us the 40-hour workweek and a variety of our labor legal guidelines
You’re seeing on many sides of the aisle the divide between somebody like Elon Musk, who has a trillion {dollars}, versus half of People who haven’t got $1,000 to patch a gap if their automobile hits a pot gap they usually acquired to take it to the store.
What’s the political ramification of this? I imply, I — overlaying Bernie Sanders’ marketing campaign, Xochitl, he would rail towards the millionaires and the billionaires, and now I assume he will have so as to add the trillionaires to the lineup, trillionaire, singular.
The panel libs’ arguments have been greatest distilled to: Elon has an excessive amount of cash, and is unduly influencing our political course of. Scott Jennings lastly shut that nonsense down, exposing the hypocrisy of such arguments:
WATCH: @ScottJenningsKY exposes the hypocrisy of those that whine about Elon’s wealth and activism whereas trying the opposite method as Soros, Hoffman, Singham et al do the identical
SCOTT JENNINGS: What does Elon need to do with any of that? Are you saying as a result of Elon Musk exists and is a… pic.twitter.com/m1FjpxLEcx
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) June 15, 2026
SCOTT JENNINGS: What does Elon need to do with any of that? Are you saying as a result of Elon Musk exists and is a wild success that that’s one way or the other to the detriment of all of the folks you are mentioning?
Elon is creating an surroundings the place entrepreneurship, the place success, the place constructing is widely known. The one cause anyone’s mad about this, let’s simply be sincere, is as a result of he supported Donald Trump for president.
If Elon Musk had by no means gotten concerned in politics, had by no means supported Trump, he’d be getting ticker tape parades proper now for constructing this wonderful firm and sending rockets into area. It is all political. And the individuals who ought to love Elon Musk are those who hate him, for that cause alone.
XOCHITL HINOJOSA: However do you agree that one individual ought to have management of American coverage? That is what affect is. That is what cash does.
JENNINGS: He does not.
BRAD TODD: He does not.
HINOJOSA: He nonetheless — he does.
TODD: He invests in races and loses. He is like anyone else who donates cash, like Reid Hoffman, like George Soros. (CROSSTALK)
HINOJOSA: It is all about entry to the US.
(CROSSTALK)
JENNINGS: So that you’re mad that he supported a candidate who gained.
HINOJOSA: No, I am simply telling you, it is all about entry. And it isn’t about simply Donald Trump. It’s about there are races all throughout the nation the place he has entry on coverage, like in Texas, like in Texas.
(CROSSTALK)
JENNINGS: Sure. Name me whenever you’re mad about Alex Soros. Name me whenever you’re mad about Soros.
All of this, whereas predictable, was enabled by Hunt’s bad-faith body. And it’s to be anticipated in terms of Elon Musk.
The Elitist Media now fall throughout themselves to attempt to downplay Graham Platner’s many scandals. They outright hid the Nazi tattoo till it was not possible to proceed to take action, and now downplay the Totenkopf tat as “a Nazi image.” This wasn’t the case when Elon advised the gang at Trump’s inaugural rally that his coronary heart was with them.
Central to creating the Elon Nazi Salute Hoax: you guessed it.
CNN’s Erin Burnett and Kasie Hunt omit @elonmusk saying “I am providing you with my coronary heart” after greeting the gang, failing the “smear @elonmusk as a Nazi with out saying Nazi in order to keep away from one other defamation lawsuit” problem pic.twitter.com/3Pd0mHO7DE
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) January 20, 2025
Click on “broaden” to view the total transcript of the aforementioned section as aired on CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday, June 14th, 2026:
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
ELIZABETH WARREN: Elon Musk is formally the world’s first trillionaire. Take into consideration that. We’re dwelling in a time when increasingly individuals are simply hanging on by their fingernails to outlive on this financial system. And Elon Musk has extra money and extra wealth than anybody in human historical past.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
KASIE HUNT: Completely eye-popping amount of cash, the world’s first trillionaire.
The query that I maintain coming again to is whether or not we in America are experiencing a second Gilded Age. The primary one, after all, induced in the end backlash that gave us the 40-hour workweek and a variety of our labor legal guidelines
You’re seeing on many sides of the aisle the divide between somebody like Elon Musk, who has a trillion {dollars}, versus half of People who haven’t got $1,000 to patch a gap if their automobile hits a pot gap they usually acquired to take it to the store.
What’s the political ramification of this? I imply, I — overlaying Bernie Sanders’ marketing campaign, Xochitl, he would rail towards the millionaires and the billionaires, and now I assume he will have so as to add the trillionaires to the lineup, trillionaire, singular.
XOCHITL HINOJOSA: That is proper. And our nation is for innovation and success. I believe the place the large query is, is our financial system working when we’ve got simply produced a trillionaire, however that there are 330 million people who find themselves not there and falling additional and additional behind and with wages being stagnant?
And I believe that’s the large query. The opposite one is certainly one of entry. Elon Musk is somebody who provides cash to politicians, et cetera. Now you could have somebody that has much more entry and extra energy to affect American insurance policies due to the cash that he has.
And I believe that’s what’s extraordinarily scary proper now, is now he may give cash to affect our election and likewise the insurance policies that Congress put in place. And I believe that’s going to be a giant downside within the subsequent few years.
SCOTT JENNINGS: So I like this Elizabeth Warren video. So you could have a multi-millionaire sitting behind a limo screeching about somebody who has just a bit bit extra money. It is a joke.
HUNT: A bit bit extra money?
(CROSSTALK)
HUNT: Much more cash.
(CROSSTALK)
JAMAL SIMMONS: I take your level, however not a bit of bit.
(CROSSTALK)
JENNINGS: You imagine that he has a trillion bodily {dollars}?
HINOJOSA: His internet price is — clearly.
(CROSSTALK)
HUNT: It’s not liquid. That’s right, Scott. It is not liquid.
JENNINGS: And why is it not? As a result of he is constructing an organization that employs hundreds of individuals. And a number of other thousand of them themselves have change into millionaires.
BRAD TODD: what perplexes me about Elon Musk is, most liberals in America care about — they are saying, about local weather change greater than virtually something.
Earlier than Elon Musk launched the Mannequin S in Tesla of 2012, there had been 17,000 electrical automobiles offered in a rustic of 300 million folks. He actually invented the American electrical automobile business, as accepted by the shoppers.
He saved the area program. Most Democrats say they love science. It is loopy to me that he is change into the whipping boy, when he has single- handedly achieved so many issues that Democrats…
(CROSSTALK)
HINOJOSA: I am from Brownsville, Texas, the place SpaceX is. He has trashed our seashore and our neighborhood. And the town of Brownsville, Texas, I’m telling you.
(CROSSTALK)
JENNINGS: We could not get a rocket within the air till SpaceX.
(CROSSTALK)
JENNINGS: He rescued the astronauts.
HINOJOSA: However I am telling you, they don’t seem to be choosing up the supplies at a seashore the place is — that most individuals, decrease earnings — it is among the poorest cities within the nation.
And now they cannot go and luxuriate in their seashores, as a result of you realize what he is doing? He’s trashing them. So do not give me this about local weather change or anything when a metropolis like Brownsville, Texas, is hurting.
SIMMONS: Sure. I am not mad at anyone who makes cash. That is America. Individuals need to generate income.
What I am mad about is individuals who do not get to generate income, proper? There are such a lot of folks in America… (CROSSTALK)
HINOJOSA: However that is what I imply. It is like fuel.
HUNT: Nice for Elon Musk sending rockets to area, proper? The American dream, advantageous.
SIMMONS: Sure.
HUNT: However the distinction between the place and the way these folks reside versus the way in which most People are at the moment experiencing life could be very totally different.
SIMMONS: Sure. And I believe most People — a lot of them have fun Elon Musk getting cash. So that they thought that was a really large deal. However, once more, the place I am from in Detroit, Michigan, $40,000 family median earnings, that is not sufficient to essentially elevate a household on. Girls who’re making an attempt to boost cash, 2 % of ladies founders are those who get to boost cash within the capital markets. Amongst black ladies, 0.34 % of black ladies are elevating cash.
Donald Trump made extra money in crypto final 12 months than all black founders mixed raised for his or her firms. That’s the type of factor I believe we have got to vary on this nation so that everyone will get to take part on this nice American renaissance that you just guys maintain speaking about.
JENNINGS: What does Elon need to do with any of that? Are you saying as a result of Elon Musk exists and is a wild success that that’s one way or the other to the detriment of all of the folks you are mentioning?
Elon is creating an surroundings the place entrepreneurship, the place success, the place constructing is widely known. The one cause anyone’s mad about this, let’s simply be sincere, is as a result of he supported Donald Trump for president.
If Elon Musk had by no means gotten concerned in politics, had by no means supported Trump, he’d be getting ticker tape parades proper now for constructing this wonderful firm and sending rockets into area. It is all political. And the individuals who ought to love Elon Musk are those who hate him, for that cause alone.
HINOJOSA: However do you agree that one individual ought to have management of American coverage? That is what affect is. That is what cash does.
JENNINGS: He does not.
TODD: He does not.
HINOJOSA: He nonetheless — he does.
TODD: He invests in races and loses. He is like anyone else who donates cash, like Reid Hoffman, like George Soros. (CROSSTALK)
HINOJOSA: It is all about entry to the US.
(CROSSTALK)
JENNINGS: So that you’re mad that he supported a candidate who gained.
HINOJOSA: No, I am simply telling you, it is all about entry. And it isn’t about simply Donald Trump. It’s about there are races all throughout the nation the place he has entry on coverage, like in Texas, like in Texas.
(CROSSTALK)
JENNINGS: Sure. Name me whenever you’re mad about Alex Soros. Name me whenever you’re mad about Soros.
HUNT: All proper, we clearly may go on for some time, however we’re out of time.
