Trump's Tesla stunt was no 'homage' to workers: Conservative breaks with CNN's Jennings​

Conservative Jonah Goldberg set CNN's Scott Jennings straight Wednesday for claiming President Donald Trump was promoting American workers with his Tesla stunt on the White House lawn.

On Tuesday, Trump staged a much-mocked photo op with five Tesla vehicles after vowing to buy one to help Elon Musk's company rebound over DOGE backlash.

Xochitl Hinojosa, a panelist on Kasie Hunt's "The Arena" addressed Jennings saying, "As a Republican strategist, you wouldn't have advised him to go in front of the White House and drive a Tesla!"

"Wait, why?" Jennings retorted. "Of course I would have! You know why? Because if I were advising a Republican president, I would say, 'Let's support American companies that have thousands of American workers and thousands more workers who make indirect products for it.' Yeah, I think it would be a good idea if American companies did well."

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He added, "I've never seen Democrats so excited to tear down an American company or companies the way they are right now. It's crazy!"

After much back-and-forth, Goldberg contradicted Jennings, saying, "I don't think the Tesla event was done as a homage to the American worker. It was a favor to Elon Musk, who's — I take Trump at his word — that he thinks Elon is being treated unfairly."

Goldberg continued, "I think what this whole spectacle really does is, it takes the bloom off of the honeymoon in the sense that when Trump hit the ground running with all those executive orders, it really seemed like he had a plan for what they were going to do, right? This time was different. He knew all the punditry was about how he knows what he wants to do, and he's going to have the people in place who won't undermine him, and all that kind of stuff. And in the last month, we've just seen this on again, off again, 'I'm going to do tariffs, I'm not going to do tariffs.' He's trying to say, 'Well, it's just about flexibility.' And I think what's rattling the markets more than anything else is that he's kind of making it up as he goes along."

Watch the clip via CNN below.