You go back a year and they were talking about the end of the company and now all of a sudden they're talking about these great things," Trump said during the interview. But he also dropped a weird bit of news, speculation, or just something he made up on the fly.
"[Musk is] going to be building a very big plant in the United States. He has to. Because we help him, so he has to help us.
Who do you think helped flip that story? Could that be what Trump was talking about? Pretty easy to succeed with the backing of a major government.
How did Musk respond? He building a massive plant in Texas because US helped him. Whats being built there that US wants so badly? Cybertruck!