Bash played a deceptively edited clip from the X Space interview where Trump and Musk discussed some of the risks involved with nuclear energy, particularly if people are able to move back to areas where nuclear power-plants have had accidents.
The clip that Bash played for CNN viewers contained the following exchange:
MUSK: Hiroshima and Nagasaki were bombed, but now they’re full cities again, so-
TRUMP: Right. Right. Right. That’s great.
MUSK: So, it’s not as scary as people think basically.
After Bash played the clip, she said that they were “sort of suggesting that what happened almost 80 years ago next year, the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, now it’s okay.”
Bash’s remarks were a blatant distortion of what Musk and Trump were discussing.
What really happened was Trump started talking about what he believed the greatest threat was to the U.S. and to the rest of the world, which he said was “not climate climate,” but the proliferation of nuclear weapons.
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“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 said. “The full context shows they were talking about nuclear energy. All the fake news does is lie.”
Political commentator Anton Vuljaj posted on X: “Whether you like/dislike Trump doesn’t really matter…this is a pretty damning clip of CNN and explains why tens of millions of Americans have lost trust in the media.”
“What a joke,” said media analyst Joe Concha.
“This is terrible. It was obvious that @elonmusk was talking about how radiation declines over time,” said journalist Michael Shellenberger. “Some of the best research comes from Hiroshima & Nagasaki. Are you going to correct your misinformation and apologize, @DanaBashCNN?”
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