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What Now? with Trevor Noah

Is Elon Musk the Ultimate Scam Artist? with Max Chafkin [VIDEO]

What Now? with Trevor Noah

Spotify Studios

News, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.72.9K Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Author and journalist Max Chafkin, co-host of the podcast Elon, Inc., joins Trevor and Christiana to discuss one of today’s most fascinating and controversial figures: Elon Musk. The three talk about how Elon came to be the world’s richest person, whether he’s a brilliant entrepreneur, scam artist, or both, and whether he and the rest of the “Paypal Mafia” have helped the world or helped ruin it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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I think people sometimes take for granted that a scam artist doesn't necessarily fail, right?

1:05.1

You know, we're talking to one of my producers earlier and we're like 10 years ago today,

1:09.9

Elon Musk said he was like in 10 years we

1:12.2

will be on Mars he's like I'll do it we're gonna be on Mars we're still here baby you know what

1:18.4

I mean yeah okay Trump's a simple one what did Trump say let never forget he said day one we're

1:24.0

gonna bring down the price of eggs they're coming down down, folks. We're going to bring it down.

1:27.8

They've done nothing. They've done nothing.

1:29.9

Eggs have only gone up since he came in his power.

1:32.8

And now what's his story?

1:34.2

Biden left me with bad egg prices.

1:36.5

You said day one.

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