Elon Musk Ducks Political Questions, Then Gripes About Government | EUROtoday

Elon Musk doesn’t need to discuss politics… except he’s received one thing to complain about.

The billionaire’s interview with “CBS Sunday Morning” started on a stiff observe as he shut down questions on President Donald Trump’s ongoing tariff tumult and the administration’s bid to throttle worldwide college students from coming into the nation.

But quickly after making an attempt to swerve from any contentious subjects, Musk started grousing in regards to the authorities, unprompted.

“My opinion of the government is that the government is just like the DMV that got big,” he advised interviewer David Pogue. “So when you say, ‘Let’s have the government do something,’ you should think, do you want the DMV to do it?”

Treading rigorously round his qualms with the Trump regime, Musk mentioned, “You know, it’s not like I agree with everything the administration does. So it’s like, I mean, I agree with much of what the administration does, but we have differences of opinion.”

“You know, the things that I don’t entirely agree with,” he added. “But it’s difficult for me to bring that up in an interview because then it creates a bone of contention.”

“So then I’m a little stuck in a bind where I’m like, well, I don’t want to, you know, speak up against the administration, but I don’t want to…” he trailed off with a heavy sigh.

Musk then deflected blame for the chaos wrought by his wade in politics, saying, “I also don’t want to take responsibility for everything the administration is doing.”

In April, the Department of Government Efficiency’s chief architect introduced he could be retreating from his function on Capitol Hill after spending months making an attempt to disembowel the nation’s huge bureaucratic ecosystem.

As Trump feted the Tesla CEO with an Oval Office ship off on Friday, he advised reporters, “Elon’s delivered a colossal change in the old ways of doing business in Washington” and that he’d nonetheless “back and forth” between the White House and his batch of companies.

Musk, who was sporting a black eye and a black shirt which mentioned “The Dogefather” throughout the gathering, additionally insisted his federal budget-busting mission could be simply tremendous with out him.

After accepting a ceremonial key from the president, he mentioned, “I think the DOGE team is doing an incredible job. They’re going to continue to be doing an incredible job.”