Neil deGrasse Tyson And CNN’s Kasie Hunt Crack Up Roasting Trump And Elon Musk Over Rally Clips

Celebrity astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and CNN anchor Kasie Hunt laughed it up as they mocked rally clips of former President Donald Trump and Elon Musk ruminating about Mars and “aliens” and hugging rockets.

Trump is known to go off on a variety of science-adjacent tangents at his rallies, including a regular chunk about Musk’s rockets. And Musk has recently taken to rallying for Trump, including a Q&A during which he touched on the extraterrestrial.

On Wednesday’s edition of CNN This Morning, Tyson was Hunt’s guest to promote his new book “Merlin’s Tour of the Universe,” but much of the segment was devoted to laughing at things like Trump hugging a rocket like a “beautiful baby” and Musk’s take on “subtle” aliens:

DONALD TRUMP: And those beautiful arms came and they hugged it like you would hug your little beautiful baby.

KASIE HUNT: (LAUGHS) Okay. Joining us now to discuss is astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson.

NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON: (LAUGHING) (PANTOMINES HUG).

He is the author of the new book Merlin’s Tour of the Universe A Traveler’s Guide to Blue Moons, Black Holes, Mars Stars and Everything. FA. Sir, I am so grateful to have you on the program.

NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON: Thanks for having me on!

KASIE HUNT: Thank you for being here. Honestly, it’s a welcome. I would say it’s a respite from the campaign trail, but I guess it’s not actually.

NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON: Well, yeah space is everywhere. Space is everywhere. So you. But yes, they’re connect to points.

KASIE HUNT: Yeah. So this is a this is this was your first book and you’ve updated.

NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON: Yeah. Yeah. My very first I wrote in graduate school actually and and it was turned out to be the proving ground of all the different ways even to this day, that I communicate science to the public. Well, quirky, fun. Merlin is a fictional character that I created to be this this, this tutor of the universe. And Merlin’s been around. It’s not it’s not the Arthurian Merlin, but there’s more than one Joe in the world–.

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KASIE HUNT: So I have another set of sound from Donald Trump and Elon Musk. I don’t think they’re directly in the forms of questions, but I think Merlin could take them, let’s watch.

DONALD TRUMP: There’s no reason not to. I mean, there’s no reason not to think that Mars and all these planets don’t have life.

ELON MUSK: Maybe the aliens will come visit us. Maybe. I mean, maybe they are here right now.

I haven’t seen any, like, sort of green aliens with antennas on the head or anything like that. And maybe they are. They’re just very subtle.

NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON: Okay. (LAUGHS)

KASIE HUNT: (LAUGHS) So are aliens here?

NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON: Easier aliens with antennas. The only people who imagine them that way are those who remember the antennas on TV sets. The rabbit. Remember (LAUGHTER) back when that was how you communicated through space. Our aliens that we drew had antennas. So that’s an old fashioned way to think about aliens. Elon is wondering whether they’ve already visited us. I’m pretty sure have had they visited us, that they ran home, concluding that there’s no sign of intelligent life on Earth.

KASIE HUNT: (LAUGHS) That’s underselling you, sir.

Watch above via CNN This Morning.