Elon Musk admits he “got carried away” working inside Donald Trump’s administration as the unelected director of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, where he implemented mass firings and radically cut federal spending.
“I think I got a little too involved in politics. I got carried away, frankly,” he told The Economist in a wide-ranging interview published Thursday, but offered few specifics on what he regretted.
But the world’s wealthiest man — who pumped millions of dollars into Trump’s campaign before he was deputized to oversee the president’s brutal cost-cutting operation — defended the work of DOGE and his dismantling of the nation’s global aid agency that he once promised to put through a “wood chipper.”
“We need to sort of take a close look at spending and make sure that money is being spent in sensible ways and that it is not wasted or spent on fraudulent activities. And I got a lot of flack for this, obviously,” he said.
I wonder if he can just see the writing on the wall, or if he was actually using a cannon to kill a fly? Maybe its that SpaceX isn’t doing so hot? Maybe its the investigation related to tRump going on about how Musk “really knows those voting machines” and how they’ll “never have to vote again”.
Either way, people are dead because of him. We won’t forget, and there will be an accounting for this.
I was a government contractor for four years. I made really good money, worked from home, and had really good benefits. A year ago, Elon and Trump decided to stop paying the contract I was on. Between outsourcing and AI, I couldn’t find anyone to hire me. I had to work in a grocery store for six months with ten years of web development and project management experience. I start my job as a mailman on Monday. I’ll never forgive them and forsake anyone associated with them. Until the seas dry and the land breaks, I wish suffering and damnation upon them.
I’m so, so sorry you’re in this position. It isn’t right.
it’s infuriating seeing the two assholes cutting everything for literal pennies, then wasting trillions on a useless war that has only economic downsides, just because bibi asked it nicely
Don’t forget the tax breaks for the Uber rich.
I’ve been in, or worked for the military for 26 years last month so I’ve seen some political things. While DOGE didn’t kill my little 150 person org it wiped out a third of our experienced folks and eliminated all young folks we feed to the larger workforce.
The large over arching programs like USAID will be fairly easily put back together but the folks not in the DMV will be hard to luer back.
My command is fairly senior but two years ago I at 49 years old was about average, now I’m in the younger cohort, that’s not good for any workforce.
How many kids have you killed or helped kill in your 26 years? Or did you perhaps refuel vehicles that lead to killing kids, fed some child killers to give them the strength to get through a day of child killing, or defended somewhere at home so killers could be deployed overseas to kill kids?
Gonna be in the same place as soon as my daughter goes to public school. I really can’t justify paying at a minimum $3000 for child care in my area AND not see my kid. My wife has a solid job in another industry that won’t be touched by AI. Thankful for her.
Grats on the mailman job. Sincerely, I couldn’t find a new job in software but it was also melting my mind being told I need to use AI all day long. I will happy to make less and do something else once the $36000 a year in childcare is not required. I have that privilege to wait after a decade in software thankfully.
According to the estimates of Brooke Nichols, DOGE cuts to foreign aid programs had led to some 300,000 deaths by May 2025, mostly of children. By February 2026, when her counter that estimated the number of deaths was retired, the numbers were kept at the one-year mark from when the cuts began: 781,343 deaths caused by the funding discontinuation.
Fuck him.
781,343 deaths.
You don’t just get to go “oops!” and walk away.
Nearly eight hundred thousand dead in the first year. Probably much more by now.
The worst part is that he’s the wealthiest person to ever exist. He has more than enough money to help. He could be telling everyone in his employment to begin to undo the mess he made, but he won’t. He may donate a few million to a charity (that he owns) to build up some good will with the poors. The people he pays to be around him will tell him what a saint he is, caring for the poor. He’ll feel good about himself again. While millions of children still die.
“Sorry everyone, just got swept up in the moment. No hard feelings, right?” – A. Hitler
He is responsible for deaths of millions of people. He is a repulsive disguisting psychopath. A murderer.
If there were any justice, he would be convicted and face the death penalty. He’s a menace to humanity.
I mean, just regular Leavenworth will do.
Cool. Now pay back reparations for all the damage that you’ve caused. You can afford it.
Can the American People file a class action suit?
Take his entire net worth.
That’s roughly $3,000 per person for all 341 million people.
“Sorry everyone. Fascism just makes me feel so good, ya know?”
What about the Nazi Salute Elon?
Oh, you know. I just got carried away.
may this fucker be reincarnated into every last person who was denied USAID and died as a result this past year
if there is some form of spiritual punishement in the after life his consiousness gets to witness every suffering. in excruciating detail.
I’d settle for him being sent to prison
Give Elon muskrat the death penalty
Ok, sure why not
Elon Musk is a colossal fucking moron. A pure complete dipshit. Why people keep giving this stupid fuck money is beyond me. He is an egotistical, narcissistic, racist, elitist, bigoted asshole. Let’s just all keep throwing $$$ at this piece of shit.
Strange way of saying gross incompetence.
yeah, was that before or after the second hitler salute? just trying to gauge things
“We need to sort of take a close look at spending and make sure that money is being spent in sensible ways and that it is not wasted or spent on fraudulent activities. And I got a lot of flack for this, obviously,” he said.
Really? That’s why you got flack?
Well, I can’t speak for everyone, but you got flack from me not for making sure money is being spent in sensible ways. I gave you some flack for being a self-dealing, child-killing, own-fart-smelling, public data-stealing, ketamine-addicted Nazi fascist sociopath who not only wielded your deluded political persecution complex as a weapon for punishing innocent people, you did so without even giving them the dignity of your actual attention unaided by AI.
Apparently whats sensible isnt monitoring threats to food production, of disease outbreaks, its bombing Arabs…
I hate this timeline
Let’s fucking kill him!!!
They got everything they wanted. The country is in a death spiral toward Somalia-style libertarianism, and it can’t be stopped.
Yeah I wish he got carried away… in a pine box.
PoS deserves a burlap sack.
Screw that, leave his bits for the rats
Rats don’t deserve that.
They don’t have to eat it. Maybe they can give it to their OWN parasites
