A lie. Trump has claimed that climate change is a hoax originating in China. A lie. Trump very recently has claimed that Ukraine started the horrific war with Russia. A … Elon Musk defeated a very important bill before Trump took office by claiming that that legislation...was giving a 40% wage increase, salary increase to members of Congress. A total absolute lie. … a 40% increase. And this week, in his speech to Congress, Trump once again repeated the claim that Musk started. That zillions and zillions of dead people between the ages of 100 and 300 are receiving Social Security checks. (23:54–24:31)
CLAIM
Asserts that Elon Musk falsely claimed a bill gave a 40% salary increase to Congress members.
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