During Thursday’s edition of MS NOW’s “The Last Word,” Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) criticized the Trump administration’s approach to immigration and turned his focus to Elon Musk, calling him an immigrant who, in Raskin’s view, has failed to embrace the country’s core democratic principles. Raskin cited equal protection, due process, the First Amendment and representative government as values he said Musk does not genuinely support.
“This sort of forbidden thought occurred to me, Lawrence,” Raskin said. He argued that Musk is part of a Trump administration that has “denounced immigrants and reviles immigrants,” despite Musk’s own immigrant background. Raskin further claimed that Musk “never really inhaled the real values of our country” and alleged that the asylum system had been reshaped to admit white Afrikaners whom he characterized as “unreconstructed racists.” According to Raskin, those changes were influenced by Musk, whom he accused of showing little interest in constitutional protections and representative democracy.
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Raskin added that Musk and others who support establishing a civilization on Mars may be so detached from Earth that he was “starting to think he was born on Mars.”