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Trump Watch: Musk at the Pentagon, the US diesel dilemma, Trump's media company merges: this week's Trump news

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is supposed to develop a strategy for the future of US warfare by the end of January. The hosts analyze this and other Trump news in this episode.

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Trump Watch: Musk at the Pentagon, the US diesel dilemma, Trump's media company merges: this week's Trump news

US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has announced that Elon Musk will help develop a strategy for the US military's future, along with tech entrepreneur Palmer Luckey and politician Newt Gingrich. They have four months to come up with a plan. This development comes after Musk said he would donate to Republicans for the midterm elections. Some experts, like Professor Christian Lammert from FU Berlin, find it problematic that the US military is becoming so dependent on one person and one company.

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