Happy Friday! It’s August 30, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know. Walter Isaacson On Elon Musk(s) 1st Gear: Elon Musk’s ‘Master Plan’ For Climate Change Disappears From Tesla’s Website Elon … Read more
Donald Trump on Thursday falsely claimed that babies can be executed after birth in six states, including Minnesota where vice presidential nominee Tim Walz presides as governor. (Watch the video below.) The wearying refrain from the Republican presidential nominee came with multiple misleading or incorrect comments as he riled up his base. The anecdote also … Read more
The former president, who appeared to doze through much of his criminal hush money trial earlier this year, complained on Thursday that President Joe Biden has been in Delaware “laying on a beach, sleeping all day long.” “Who the hell wants to sleep, and who wants to sleep in public?” the GOP nominee said during … Read more
Kamala Harris may have sat down with CNN’s Dana Bash for her first big interview since she became the Democratic presidential nominee last month, but that doesn’t mean she was willing to play the network’s game. Since getting the nomination, Harris and running mate Tim Walz have connected with voters mostly by doing rallies and … Read more
Former Trump White House national security adviser John Bolton flagged what GOP nominee Donald Trump did “wrong” following his controversial visit to Arlington National Cemetery this week. Bolton appeared on CNN where host Phil Mattingly described Trump as “close” to family members of service members killed in Kabul during the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. He … Read more
Rocker Jack White joined the chorus of music icons fighting Donald Trump’s use of their songs on Thursday and said he was going to sue the former president. White shared a video posted by campaign official Margo Martin that showed Trump and used “Seven Nation Army,” from White’s former band The White Stripes. “Oh….Don’t even … Read more
After his campaign’s staffers “abruptly pushed aside” an official at Arlington National Cemetery and ignored rules prohibiting political activity on its grounds, President Donald Trump is pushing back, saying he was the victim of a smear campaign from “bad people” out of Washington. “Those incredible parents … asked me to go yesterday to Arlington, and … Read more
One Democratic line of attack seems to be getting under Donald Trump’s skin as the former president yet again denied that he’s weird. It started when the former president attacked Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, who has used the word the describe Trump, running mate Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) and … Read more
Donald Trump said it’s “a little bit true” that people are going to vote with their stomach before vomiting up a head-spinning argument tying the cost of bacon to the cost of wind power at a Wisconsin town hall-style event on Thursday. The GOP nominee responded to a college student who ― after declaring that … Read more
Even before Vice President Kamala Harris’s interview with CNN aired Thursday night, former President Donald Trump began attacking it. In the morning, he criticized her for having her running mate, Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota, on hand beside her. After seeing a clip of the interview, he criticized her for rambling “incoherently.” And about half … Read more
