While that sound bite was highlighted by the Trump campaign on X (formerly Twitter), O’Brien’s statement was quickly disproven by the fact that Teamsters Local 202 in New York’s 14th District in the Bronx endorsed Ocasio-Cortez Thursday, which the congresswoman was happy to post on X herself.

Asking Musk, smartest man on the planet to streamline our bloated, inefficient and unaccountable federal government is the kind of out-of-the-box idea that helped Trump win in 2016.