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What is Elon Musk's role in the White House? Trump answered in a joint interview
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What is Elon Musk's role in the White House? Trump answered in a joint interview

Article author: Sanstuti Nath Article translation: Block unicorn

Washington DC: U.S. President Donald Trump and his billionaire ally Elon Musk have their first joint interview under the auspices of Fox News' Sean Hannity . In the interview, Trump and his adviser Musk praised each other. The two discussed multiple issues, including Musk's role as presidential adviser and the White House's position on his influence.

Trump stressed that Musk would not be involved in anything involving his company's decisions, and Musk also said his main role was to provide technical support to the president .

About Musk's power in Trump

Elon Musk told Sean Hannity that he "never asked the president for anything and attempting to appease the audience, saying he would evade decisions involving his company’s interests. Musk's company, SpaceX in particular, has many generous contracts and works directly with NASA NASA. Donald Trump also reiterated that Musk would not participate in any decision-making, saying he would not let Musk participate in projects that conflict with his private company work.

Musk said people who are worried that he is an unelected presidential adviser and have power should pay more attention to the thousands of unsuccessful in the civilian department. Election of federal employees. He said: "If the bureaucracy is against the public opinion and prevents the president from implementing what the people want, then what we live in is a bureaucracy, not a democracy."

Wearing a T-shirt with the words "Technical Support", Musk emphasized that his main role is to provide technical support to the president.

About DOGE's role

Trump praised Musk for his efficiency in executing executive orders, saying: "He can put executive orders into place. He signed the executive orders before commands, but nothing was done. He and his talented team ensured that the commands were executed. ”

Musk also talked about what he called the “efficiency department” ("DOGE"), and said Trump's goal is to "try to save from the deficit"Offer one trillion dollars. "

Trump echoed: "I think he will find a trillion dollars," and said he believed it was just "a small amount of fraud in spending , waste and abuse. ”

He also assured voters that the reduction of budgets would not affect social security, and as he has always said, the abolition of the Ministry of Education would return the management rights of schools to the states.

"Social security will not be affected unless it is a fraud or something like that—we will find it and will be strengthened—but it will not be affected,” Trump said, adding, “Medicare, medical assistance, all of this won’t… they won’t be touched. ”

The lawsuit on X platform

Hannity also asked the two about the $10 million settlement between social media platform X and the president, Trump Both Musk think that the issue is not important and there is no further discussion.

"I handed it over to a lawyer," Musk said.

"I think this amount is very low...I wanted more money, so I gave him a discount," Trump said with a smile.

About attempted assassination incident

Hanniti mentioned that on the day Musk supported Trump's campaign for president, there was an attempt to assassinate Trump. Tesla CEO confirmed this and praised Trump for his threats. "Courage."

"Well, that's how you know a person's true character, because everyone can say they are brave, but the president is actually Shooted. Do you understand? Show courage in the rain of bullets. ‘Fight, fight, fight’, blood flows all over my face. That is the real courage. There is no way to pretend. ”

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