Senator John Fetterman, D-Pa., Inserted it to members of his party Talk as ordinary people On Tuesday while he pushed back on MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle’s questions about the rise of oligarchs in America.
“I would just ask Democrats, such as, talking like a normal person. Most people don’t know for sure what an oligarch is, you know?” Fetterman told Ruhle when he was the idea that America “created oligarchs.”
Fetterman, a Democrat who did not stop criticizing his own party, called his colleague legislators for their protests and antics during the joint speech by President Donald Trump to congress, they accuse it Trump looks more president.
“There is also a small secret. Democrats, we love billionaires if they also give our goals or our party,” he continued before Ruhle pushed back.
John Fetterman and Stephanie Ruhle of MSNBC discuss Oligarchs during the MSNBC interview. (Screenshot/msnbc)
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Fetterman argued that the bigger problem was about ‘unlimited money’, which he described as the poison of American democracy.
“Don’t forget that many of these billionaires who were in technology used to be more friendly for the democratic interest and our party,” he said. “Unlimited money, get rid of it, and that would transform America more than another decision.”
Ruhle pointed to the role of Musk in the Trump government, which is wide Criticized by Democrats And members of the media, and argued: “There is a difference between very rich political donors,” and rich individuals in the government who make decisions that “could enrich themselves and their companies”.
“That is different from being a democratic donor who has the president’s ear or, at least, his telephone number,” she said.
Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., Tumbles with West Point Cadets in the Senate Subway on Tuesday, November 19, 2024. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
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“I’m not sure if they are necessarily just motivated, you know, based on money,” argued the democratic senator. “Whether it is Bezos or Musk, they have been able to spend much more than you in 100 lives. So for that I think scarcity defines the luxury, so that is why many of them want to be busy with that because they have unlimited money, so I think they just want to be part of the conversation.”
Asked by Ruhle if he believed that their role in the government will help their companies, Fetterman said their companies could join the values ​​of the prevailing administration.
“So, for me they can move (where) many of the political waters (to which the political waters,” he added. “I don’t think it’s billionaires who take over the country, I think it’s just people with a lot of money, and we can stop it spontaneously by cutting unlimited money.”
Elon Musk speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC, in the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center, Thursday 20 February 2025, in Oxon Hill, MD. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
Fetterman said on social media that his party became as “metaphorical car alarms” to which no one pays attention in response to the protests during the president’s speech.
“A sad cavalcade of itself is possession and loose petulance. It only makes Trump more president and modest. We will be the metaphorical car – alarms to which no one pays attention – and it may not be the winning message,” the senator said in a post on X.
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He told Fox News Digital That the 13-year-old cancer survivor, DJ Daniel, who was honored at Trump’s address, had a story that every congressman could celebrate. Various Democrats, however, remained sitting when Trump honored him.
“I don’t know why we can’t fully celebrate,” Fetterman said. “I mean, I myself have a 13-year-old, and thankagukank never had cancer, but I think that’s something we can all celebrate there. And I think it was a moving moment. And, as I said, that is part of the best of American experience.”
