President Trump described Elon Musk’s job leading the Department of Government Efficiency as the “biggest thing” the billionaire tech tycoon “has ever done.”
“This will be the biggest thing he’s ever done,” Trump said of Musk and DOGE, during an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity.
The president argued that while Musk’s various business ventures, including Tesla, SpaceX and X, “are all great,” they might suffer if he doesn’t succeed at slashing government waste, fraud and abuse.
“If this country goes bad, his stuff is not going to be worth very much,” Trump said.
Musk, 53, seemed to agree with the commander in chief.
“If the ship of America sinks, we’re all going down with it,” the DOGE chief said.
“You know, this idea that people can escape to New Zealand or some other place is false,” Musk added. “If the central pillar of Western civilization that is America falls, the whole roof comes crashing down and there is no escape.”
When Trump once again suggested during the joint interview – the duo’s first – that “there could be nothing bigger” for Musk to accomplish than his work at DOGE, Hannity pushed back.
“You’re sending ships up to Mars, you know, spaceships up in the sky all the time, saving astronauts … that’s pretty big,” the Fox News host asked Musk.
To which Trump responded: “That’s peanuts compared to what we’re talking about.”
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