Following former president Donald Trump‘s interview with Elon Musk on Monday, which has now garnered over a billion views, left-wing outlet CNN was caught desperately trying to stop the video’s momentum.
The network was caught selectively editing a portion of the Monday interview to make it seem like both Musk and Trump thought the World War II bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were no big deal.
However, the Trump 2024 campaign’s official account on social media platform X exposed CNN’s deceptive behavior with the full clip in its proper context.
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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.
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) August 13, 2024
The full context shows they were talking about nuclear energy.
All the fake news does… pic.twitter.com/Y0UilefYJp
Of course, Trump and Musk said nothing of the kind.
“Hiroshima and Nagasaki were bombed, but now they’re full cities again,” Musk said in CNN’s edited clip.
Trump could be heard agreeing with Musk.
“So it’s really not something that … it’s not as scary as people think, basically,” Musk said.
CNN’s editing made it sound like the two has agreed that the brutal bombings in world history weren’t so bad.
You can now hear the full comment in its proper context.
During the interview, Trump and Musk were talking about nuclear energy as a viable alternative to fossil fuels.
The conversation then moved on to the bad reputation of nuclear energy due to nuclear plant accidents like the meltdown in Fukushima, Japan, after a 2011 earthquake.
Then Musk said this:
“People were asking me in California, are we worried about a nuclear cloud coming from Japan? I’m like, ‘No, that’s crazy. It’s not even dangerous in Fukushima,'” Musk said.
“I actually flew there and ate locally grown vegetables on TV to prove it.”
At that point, Musk added the point that “Hiroshima and Nagasaki were bombed, but now they’re full cities again” as further evidence that nuclear fallout does not make a site uninhabitable for thousands of years.
Musk and Trump were not saying that the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki weren’t a big deal, as CNN would have you believe.
The Trump campaign site observed, “All the fake news does is lie.”
In response to CNN’s gross distortion of the truth, the Trump campaign site observed, “All the fake news does is lie.”
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