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.
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
Proposed headline: Elon Musk says, “PlEASe like me PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE every body I need you to like me I’ll do literally anything l can be ultra whatever wing because I believe in nothing except that you should all like me plEASE LIKE ME”
The arguments I used to have with Musk fanbois on reddit …
I’ll do anything except stop being a useless piece of shit who raped an entire nation
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’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 we feed to the larger workforce.
The large over arching programs like USAID will be fairly easily to put back together 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?
I was a woman in the military.
I can’t even look at myself in the mirror anymore, haven’t left the house for a week.
I wish them a jail cell.
I wish them death and a eternity of pain and suffering in hell for their sins
A jail cell is too good for them.
They need to be dragged through the streets and end up like Mussolini. Or maybe Ceaușescu and his wife.
Just hope the dragging through the streets takes hours and they are conscious for all of it.
Have you considered a lateral transfer?
Some countries, including Canada and Australia, will accept international applicants providing they meet certain criteria. Australia particularly offers pathways to citizenship too.
https://www.defence.gov.au/adf-members-families/military-life-cycle/lateral-recruits
Yeah sure, but I couldn’t imagine them taking someone as mediocre and old as me.
I like Aussies and Canadians. I would do my best to be an ideal citizen.
You’d be surprised!
“The maximum age, as a general rule, is between 3 and 6 years away from the “Compulsory Retiring Age” for a specific role. It is encouraged that applicants conduct research pertaining to their role of interest.”
So its role dependent for Australian Defence Forces, though is worth at least looking into.
I couldn’t look at myself either if I was in the military, how disgusting.
I couldn’t look at myself if I were a knee-jerk troll, so I guess we’re even.
One post from four months ago, and then a handful from the last day 🧐 seems we got a piece of shit sandbag account looking to rile people up
Didn’t Russia just get another infusion of cash from some sanction being lifted or something like that recently? Spinning back up sections of their social media farms now that there’s funding again.
Sorry I don’t support the
killerstroops.I wonder who’s killed more innocent people Elon’s funding cuts or the US Military.
Interesting how you’re more upset this one person was in the military than you are about anything Elon Musk has done, to the point that you’re now mollifying Musk’s actions in order to troll this one person.
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If I was on a platform with Elon Musk, I would gladly tell him how disgusting he is.
It’s interesting how an anarchist defends imperialist soldiers.
You easily could be, he’s very available on Twitter if you were actually so inclined. But instead you’re more inclined to misread the pointing out the shortsightedness of your trolling of an individual as a different statement entirely. Just as you’re more inclined to treat Musk with softer gloves if it means you can attack some random person for something that that doesn’t even apply anymore.
Lol I’ve never had someone do this, i dont usually speak about it online but, it’s actually interesting. Thanks for standing up for me a bit
I just can’t stand these fake leftists who just use terms they don’t understand and outrage to look cool for other fake leftists on the internet.
I didn’t hurt anyone. I have 2 degrees, can run 5 miles and in good shape though. Don’t have to be mad at me.
I hope your luck will be better than mine.
It won’t be. My career is ruined. It’s hopeless.
We can be pissed and destroyed together though. 🤝
I wish you weren’t right.
Now kiss
go outside, touch grass, re-evaluate
Thank you.
I’m so, so sorry you’re in this position. It isn’t right.
I had to work in a grocery store for six months with ten years of web development and project management experience
That sucks, but long term that would have been an inevitable outcome anyway. Web development experience is becoming a useless skill on the job market, as you have learned from first hand experience finding a job
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.
it’s infuriating seeing the two assholes cutting everything and destroying the lifes of millions of people 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.
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.
The rich are above the law :<
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.
He’s still ‘a little too involved’ in politics. He’s flinging his shit around the UK and EU now, acting like he knows best.
Sounds to me like he’s admitting culpability for his crimes though. Some prosecutor should get on that.
And he wants to fund remaking the Odyssey with just white people.
Oh he’s biding time. He sees what Trump did. He is going to come back as a politician after taking capitalism to its logical conclusion of “evil.”
We had to cut $400M in global aid and kill 800k kids in order to fund a pointless $50B war (and counting) that doesn’t exist but also we already won, where we killed tens of thousands more (and counting).
No forgiveness, no mercy.
“Well, if it isn’t the consequences of my actions”
What consequences?
These assholes should get carried away to jail.
Strange way of saying gross incompetence.
yeah, was that before or after the second hitler salute? just trying to gauge things
He needs to be carried away.
“Sorry everyone, just got swept up in the moment. No hard feelings, right?” – A. Hitler
This dumbass just lost half a trillion and I hope the other 750 Billy left goes down the gutter. I’ll never own a fucking tesla I’ll never buy starshit or any other shit service/product this idiot tries to unload on the American people.
The fact that there isn’t a well funded group actively hunting this man with the intent to mutilate him to death is somewhat shocking to me.
What good would killing him do? The wealth would just pass down to his children
The children would see an immediate close and personal reason to be better people?
For real. I’d help crowdfund it.
Let’s fucking kill him!!!
lulz
Hur Dee Hur. Forgot y’all’s was real people down in that k-hole of “the world is a simulation”
