US President Donald Trump and his billionaire colleague Elon Musk sat for their first joint interview with Fox News and discussed various topics including Republican’s advisor and the role of Tesla and SpaceX’s CEO as the Republican’s advisor and a White House attitude. .
Trump insisted that Kasturi would not be involved in any decision involving its companies, which the billionaire of South African-born said that his primary role was to provide technical assistance to the President.
Elon Musk told Sean Hannie that he “never asked the President anything,” demanding the audience to assure that he would reuse himself from any political decisions involving their companies. Musk’s companies, especially SpaceX hold many attractive government contracts and work directly with the US Space Agency NASA.
Donald Trump also reiterated that Musk would not involve any decision making, saying that he does not allow them to work on government projects that were disputed with their work for their private companies.
Musk said that as an undeclared advisor for the President, concerned about his power should be more concerned about thousands of unequal federal employees in the government’s civil work force. “If the bureaucracy is fighting with the will of the people and preventing the President from implementing what people want, then what we live is a bureaucracy and not democracy.”
Wearing a T-shirt reading “tech support”, the billionaire insisted that his primary role was to provide technical support to the President.
Trump praised Musk’s efficiency in executing executive orders, stating, “They get executive orders. Executive orders were signed there, but no work was done. He and his talent team sure She has been executed. “
Musk also spoke about its so -called “Government Efficiency Department (” Dogi “) and said that the Trump administration with it is aimed at” trying to get a trillion dollar from the deficit. ,
“I think he is going to find a trillion dollar,” Trump said, he believes that it will only be “a small lack of fraud, waste and misuse that is actually in government expense.”
He also assured the voters and said that social security would not be affected by cuts, as they have often repeated, and by abolishing the Education Department, the school will send back the control to the states.
Praising Musk’s efficiency in executing executive orders, the President said, “They are given executive orders. Executive orders were signed there, but no work was done. He and his talent team ensure that he would ensure Is that they are executed. “
Hanti also asked the pair about the social media platform, X, recently $ 10m settlement with the President, a question that Trump and Musk dismissed as insignificant.
“I left it to the lawyers,” said Musk.
“I think it’s too little … I was looking at it to get more money than that, so you exempted him,” said Trump.
