President Donald Trump invited Elon Musk to enactment successful his medication arsenic agelong arsenic helium wants - an invitation the came arsenic the Tesla laminitis is connected his mode retired the door.
'You cognize you're invited to enactment arsenic agelong arsenic you want. At immoderate point, I conjecture helium wants to get backmost location to his cars,' Trump said during his Cabinet gathering connected Wednesday.
Musk praised the president's accomplishments successful his archetypal 100 days successful the White House and past joked astir his ain authorities service: 'They accidental I deterioration a batch of hats. It's true. Even my chapeau has a hat.'
He gestured to the 2 hats connected his head.
Trump had placed reddish hats speechmaking the 'Gulf of America' astir the array for his Cabinet secretaries.
Musk, the world's richest man, spent portion of the gathering fiddling with the hats. He adjusted a Gulf of America chapeau to marque it ample capable to acceptable implicit the achromatic DOGE chapeau helium was wearing.
That near him wearing 2 hats, 1 connected apical of another.
Elon Musk wearing a reddish 'Gulf of America' chapeau implicit his achromatic DOGE hat
Trump praised Musk's manner choices.
'Elon, I emotion the treble hat, by the way. He's the lone who tin bash that and get distant with it.'
The SpaceX laminitis is softly stepping distant from his authoritative relation with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) - the arguable task unit slashing spending crossed the national government.
Trump praised him connected his mode retired the door.
'You person been treated unfairly, but the immense bulk of radical successful this state truly respect and admit you, and this full country tin accidental that precise beardown truly been a tremendous help. You opened up a batch of eyes arsenic to what tin beryllium done. And we conscionable privation to convey you precise much,' the president said.
It sounded similar farewell remarks. And the full country applauded aft Trump finished.
The Cabinet gathering had the consciousness of a goodbye enactment with officials who had clashed with Musk praising his work, cracking jokes and engaging successful awkward laughter.
Specifically Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Transportation Secretary Sean Duff, who had clashed with Musk implicit cuts to their enactment force, joked with him arsenic they presented their reports.
Rubio publically praised Musk's work.
'We went retired and hired a consulting steadfast to assistance america signifier ourselves. Luckily, they were free. They're called the Department of Government Efficiency,' helium said arsenic the country laughed.
The caput of authorities and Musk, previously, fought down closed doors. Rubio was 1 of the Cabinet secretaries who urged the president to rein Musk in.
Duffy slammed Musk for firing aerial postulation controllers arsenic his bureau faced a shortage.
But helium had a antithetic tune connected Wednesday, smiling and joking astatine DOGE chief.
Duffy noted his Transportation Department was changing CAFE standards to 'bring it down to thing much reasonable.'
The helium joked to Musk, the laminitis of Tesla: 'I anticipation Elon is good with that.'
Again, awkward laughter filled the room.
President Donald Trump praised Elon Musk's enactment and noted the Tesla laminitis wanted to get backmost to his cars
Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who clashed with Elon Musk connected erstwhile occasions, joked astir with him present that he's leaving the administration
President Donald Trump held his 5th Cabinet gathering connected Wednesday
Musk's beingness astatine Trump's 5th Cabinet gathering was a singular alteration from his archetypal clip sitting astatine the head.
In the archetypal Cabinet meeting, Musk spoke earlier immoderate different caput and held distant for respective minutes connected DOGE's work.
On Wednesday, Musk waited his crook to speech arsenic Trump went astir the table, asking each caput to springiness their report.
It could beryllium a motion of Musk's diminishing influence.
For the archetypal respective months of Trump's 2nd term, Elon Musk was everyplace - briefing Trump personally, gutting national departments, and boldly promising to slash the national shortage by $1 trillion, a fig helium vowed to halve by the extremity of the fiscal year.
But past week helium announced helium was stepping back.
His 130-day mandate arsenic a peculiar authorities worker is acceptable to expire astatine the extremity of May but helium told stock holders connected the Tesla proprietor telephone that helium was winding down his clip successful the government.
'Starting adjacent month, I volition beryllium allocating acold much of my clip to Tesla,' helium said. 'The large enactment of establishing [DOGE] has been completed.'
Musk's assertive slash and pain benignant - closing aggregate authorities agencies and firing astir 200,000 national works - besides caused large backlashes to his businesses.
It grew atrocious that vandals began targeting Tesla cars and holding demonstrations outside of showrooms.
Telsa reported its net down arsenic Musk's enactment for Trump was criticized.
English (US) ·