Early this week, Donald Trump and Elon Musk amazed the world with an interview broadcast on X that garnered nearly a billion listeners. Now we have CNN’s fake “journalist” Dana Bash lying about one of the comments Trump made during that interview.

The bloviating, left-wing, Democrat operative who masquerades as a “journalist” on CNN claimed that Trump and Musk claimed that the bombings of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War Two were not that bad.

After playing a few seconds of the conversation, Bash went on to say, “So that was more Elon Musk than Donald Trump, talking about, sort of suggesting that what happened, almost 80 years ago, I think 80 years ago next year, ugh, the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, now it’s OK. Um, trying to kinda blow off the impact of that.”

But neither Trump nor Musk said that the bombing of the two cities in war time was not a big deal. In fact, the topic they were discussing was nuclear energy, not nuclear bombs.

Here is the actual conversation between Trump and Musk:

Elon Musk: Yeah. Actually, there’s the bad side of nuclear, which is a nuclear war, very bad side. But there’s also, I think, nuclear electricity generation is underrated. Absolutely. You’re right. People have this fear of nuclear electricity generation, but it’s actually one of the safest forms of electricity generation. It’s just a huge misunderstanding. If you look at the injuries and deaths caused by, say, I’m not going to try to pick on a coal mining, but just any mining operation, and there’s a certain number of injuries and deaths per year. When you compare that to nuclear, nuclear is actually way better. It’s underrated as an electricity source, and I think it’s something that’s worth reconsider But there’s so much regulation that people can’t get it done.

President Trump: Maybe they’ll have to change the name. The name is a rough name. There are some areas like when you see what happened in- The bad branding. We have to rebrand it. We’ll have to give it a good We’ll name it after you or something. Hey, it has a branding problem. When you see what happened- It does have a branding problem. When you see what happened in Japan where they say you won’t be able to go on the land for about 3,000 years. Did you ever see that? And in Russia, where they had the problem, where there’s a lot of bad things happened, and they have a problem. And they say that in 2000 years, people will start to occupy the land again. You realize it’s pretty bad. No, that’s not true. But you’re right about It’s just basic.

Elon Musk: It’s actually not that bad. After Fukushima happened in Japan, people were asking me in California, Are we worried about a nuclear cloud coming from Japan? I’m like, No, that’s crazy. It’s not even dangerous in Fukushima. I actually flew there and ate locally grown vegetables on TV to prove it. I donated a solar power system for a water treatment plant.

Trump: (joking) Yeah, but you haven’t been feeling so well lately, and I’m worried about it.

Elon Musk: No, no, no.

Trump: I’m only kidding.

Elon Musk: It’s like Hiroshima and Nagasaki were bombed, but now they’re full cities again. It’s really not something that… That’s right. It’s not as scary as people think, basically.

So, as you can see here, they were talking about nuclear power plants, not destroying cities with nuclear bombs.

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