The Boring Company president Steve Davis repeated boastful assertions about a planned tunnel system underneath Nashville for nearly two hours during a virtual town hall on Monday night.

The company hosted a live conversation on the social platform X (formerly Twitter), another company owned by Elon Musk. People posted comments and questions that were funneled by a local PR firm.

“The session was promotional, not informative,” Tennessee state Sen. Heidi Campbell, D-Nashville, told WPLN News. “Since our state and our city have required zero accountability, The Boring Company representatives seem eager to tell us whatever sounds good to push this through.”

Davis, the former operational head of the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), maintained a cheerful tone

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