Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk is leaving his position as head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) soon as his 130-day ‘special employee’ status is set to expire at the end of May. And on his way out the door, he sat for an interview with President Donald Trump’s daughter-in-law, Fox News host Lara Trump, and made a number of surprising admissions about his time in the White House. One of the biggest? He and Trump agree about a lot of stuff – just not everything.
His time as the public face of DOGE has been defined by unprecedented budget cuts and intense public backlash, but the tech mogul has no regrets about his role in the Trump administration. Once hailed by the media and embraced by the left, Elon Musk’s emergence as a prominent political figure has drawn sharp criticism. From his acquisition of Twitter—now X—to his public endorsement of then-candidate Donald Trump, Musk’s year has been anything but “boring.”
Lara Trump asked Musk if he had any “regret” over his work at DOGE or his support of Trump, to which the SpaceX founder replied, “No.” He added: “I think it was essential for President Trump to win to ensure that America remained great, and that we reach greater heights.” In the lead-up to the November 2024 election, Musk emerged as a strong supporter of Donald Trump, despite previously donating to Barack Obama. He pointed to concerns over what he described as former President Joe Biden’s “most radical-left, crazy administration ever” as the reason for his shift.
“Whoever controlled the auto pen and telepromptor during the Biden administration was the real president,” Musk said of Biden. Musk also told Lara Trump that he believed “if President Trump had not won, I think the Democrat campaign to import vast numbers of illegal voters would have succeeded,” adding that America would have risked becoming a “one-party state from which we could never escape.”
“Some people out there may be somewhat skeptical. They may think, ‘Well, there isn’t some Democrat plan to subvert democracy and achieve a permanent one-party, deep blue socialist state.’ I assure you, the more you research it, the more that you will see it is true,” he added. With President Trump’s victory in November, Musk was immediately assigned tasks by the new administration, but his cost-cutting measures have ignited nationwide opposition.
“It’s not been boring, that’s for sure — an eventful year to say the least. At least I didn’t get shot, you know. Look on the bright side,” Musk said. “But we have had people shoot up Tesla stores and burn down Tesla cars. I wasn’t expecting that level of violence, really,” he continued. He then added that he and the president don’t always agree — but they do “80 percent of the time.”
During the first 100 days of the Trump administration, DOGE made historic moves, while Musk expressed his desires for his legacy. “That I was useful in the furtherance of civilization,” he told Lara. “That I helped move civilization forward, added to the store of knowledge and capability — that I helped to understand the universe.”
All Americans owe Musk a debt of gratitude, but unfortunately, because the Potty Mouth Party is hellbent on division rather than unity and hate instead of acceptance, he will only get the thanks he deserves from some of us.