Elon Musk says he ‘got carried away’ with DOGE and Trump after gutting the government

2026-07-23 21:16 UTC

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.

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@MisterNeon@lemmy.world 2026-07-23 21:42

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.

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@b161@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-07-24 05:39

He murdered millions.

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@SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-07-24 05:41

No consequences WOOOOOO rrrrngrrrrraaaAAAAHHHHHH

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@Kolanaki@pawb.social 2026-07-24 05:53

“Sorry everyone. Fascism just makes me feel so good, ya know?”

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@Smoogs@lemmy.world 2026-07-24 06:09

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 detail.

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@D_C@sh.itjust.works 2026-07-24 06:12

Those are some insightful comments from the world’s first Nazi trillionaire white supremacist.

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@NekoKoneko@lemmy.world 2026-07-23 22:19

“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.

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@godsammitdam@lemmy.zip 2026-07-24 07:15

Sorry Elon, we’re still going to take all your ill gotten gains and prosecute the fuck out of you and your billionaire bitches if I can do anything about it

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