Rachel Maddow lambasted Elon Musk on Thursday night, following the explosion of the latter’s latest SpaceX Starship rocket that sent “dangerous debris” streaming down from the skies over Florida.
“Tonight, Elon Musk blew something up and disrupted the lives of thousands of Americans,” Maddow began. “For the second time in less than two months, a rocket launched by Elon Musk’s company, SpaceX, exploded and rained potentially dangerous debris down over a wide area of Earth, causing real chaos for planes and airline passengers.”
“In a statement, SpaceX said that, ‘During Starship’s ascent burn, the vehicle experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly,’” the “Rachel Maddow Show” host noted, before using that as a metaphor for Musk’s recent, Trump-sanctioned string of hasty government cuts and layoffs.